Matthew E. Taylor is a sound editor, mixer, and designer, who has worked as such on almost all incarnations of Kurtzman-era Star Trek.
He has also worked on several Star Trek titles including Star Trek: Discovery where he worked on ADR and Foley editing on six episodes of the first season, garnering an Emmy Award nomination for his work on "What's Past Is Prologue". For the second season, he worked as a Sound Supervisor, garnering another Emmy nomination for "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2". He continued in this role for the third season with a similar result for "That Hope Is You, Part 1". During that time, he also worked as a Sound Supervisor on "Runaway" and then a Supervising Sound Editor on the remaining episodes of Star Trek: Short Treks.
Following those, he worked as a Supervising Sound Editor on Star Trek: Picard, garnering another Emmy (co-)nomination for "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2", alongside one for a Golden Reel Award, which he won for a second time for a Star Trek production after his 2019 win for ST: "The Brightest Star". For his work on the second season episode "Penance" he received yet another Emmy co-nomination in 2022, as he did for his work on the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season one episode "Memento Mori", neither of which won though.
Career
He has worked on a variety of titles since starting in 2002 including Mission Impossible: III, Grindhouse, Psych, Eureka, Human Target, Supernatural, Sicario, Silicon Valley, and Clarice.
Aside from the ones he was nominated for in regard to Star Trek, Taylor has been frequently honored for his sound editing work on other productions by additional nominations for both Emmy, and Golden Reel awards, winning one of the former for the television comedy series Barry in 2018, and two of the latter in 2019 and 2002 for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and again Barry respectively.
Star Trek awards
Taylor received the following award nominations and win as sound designer and editor in the various sound editing categories,
Emmy Award
- 2018 nomination for DIS: "What's Past Is Prologue" in the category "Outstanding Sound Editing for a One Hour Comedy or Drama Series", shared with Jon Mete, Tim Farrell, Christopher Assells, Trevor Sperry, Ashley Harvey, Angelo Palazzo, Peter D. Lago , Christopher Scarabosio, Matt Decker, James Bailey, Alex Ullrich, and Matt Salib
- 2019 nomination for DIS: "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2" in the category "Outstanding Sound Editing for a One Hour Comedy or Drama Series", shared with Tim Farrell, Michael Schapiro, Clayton Weber, Dan Kenyon, Rickley W. Dumm, Sean Heissinger, Bob Jackson, Matt Decker, Alyson Dee Moore, and Christopher Moriana
- 2020 nomination for PIC: "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2" in the category "Outstanding Sound Editing for a One Hour Comedy or Drama Series", shared with Tim Farrell, Harry Cohen, Michael Schapiro, Sean Heissinger, Clay Weber, Moira Marquis, Stan Jones, Alyson Dee Moore, and Chris Moriana
- 2021 nomination for DIS: "That Hope Is You, Part 1", shared with Harry Cohen, Sean Heissinger, Tim Farrell, Michael Schapiro, Darrin Mann, Clay Weber , Moira Marquis, Alyson Dee Moore, and Chris Moriana
- 2022 nomination for PIC: "Penance", shared with Michael Schapiro, Sean Hessinger, Alex Pugh, Clay Weber, John Sanacore, Ben Schorr, Katherine Harperg, and Ginger Geary
- 2022 nomination for SNW: "Memento Mori", shared with Michael Schapiro, Kip Smedley, Clay Weber, John Sanacore, David Barbee, Matt Decker, Alyson Dee Moore, Rick Owens, and Chris Moriana
Golden Reel Award
- 2019 win for ST: "The Brightest Star" in the category "Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Sound Effects, Foley, Music, Dialogue and ADR for Live Action Broadcast Media Under 35 Minutes", shared with Tim Farrell, Michael Schapiro, Sean Heissinger, Nancy Parker, Christopher Moriana, John Sanacore, and Matt Decker
- 2020 nomination for ST: "The Trouble with Edward" in the category "Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Sound Effects, Foley, Music, Dialogue and ADR for Live Action Broadcast Media Under 35 Minutes", shared with Tim Farrell, Sean Heissinger, Matt Decker, Ginger Geary, Doug Madick, and Trevor Sperry
- 2021 nomination for ST: "Ephraim and Dot" in the category "Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Animation Short Form", shared with Tim Farrell, Harry Cohen, Moira Marquis, Stan Jones, and Sean Heissinger
- 2021 nomination for PIC: "The Impossible Box" in the category "Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Episodic Long Form – Dialogue and ADR", shared with Sean Heissinger
- 2021 win for PIC: "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2" in the category "Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Episodic Long Form – Effects and Foley", shared with Tim Farrell, Harry Cohen, Michael Schapiro, Clayton Weber, Darrin Mann , Alyson Dee Moore, and Christopher Moriana
- 2021 nomination for DIS: "That Hope Is You, Part 1" in the category "Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Episodic Long Form – Effects and Foley", shared with Tim Farrell, Harry Cohen, Michael Schapiro, Clayton Weber, and Darrin Mann
- 2022 Golden Reel Award nomination for DIS: "Kobayashi Maru" in the category "Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Series One Hour – Effects/Foley", shared with Harry Cohen, Michael Schapiro, Katie Halliday, Andrew Twite, Clayton Weber, Alyson Dee Moore, and Christopher Moriana
- 2022 Golden Reel Award nomination for "Kobayashi Maru" in the category "Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Series One Hour – Dialogue/ADR", shared with Sean Heissinger, and Cormac Funge