
Born in Tasmania, Australian native Matt spent his teenage years cutting skate videos with 2 VHS decks and made his commercial editorial debut back in 2006, since he has been editing campaigns for brands and agencies across his homeland as well as throughout Asia, Europe and the US.
He has cut campaigns for a variety of clientele including Nike, Adidas, Porsche, Cathay Pacific, Volkswagen, Chevrolet, Mercedes-Benz, Sony, Lexus and Reebok and has worked with directors including Henry Hobson, Rob Chiu, Salomon Lighthelm, Jared Clayton, Lloyd Lee Choi, Rob Stanton-Cook, Xavier Tera, Mackenzie Sheppard, Ed McCulloch, Jan Wentz and Matthaus Bussman. Osborne’s editing style is emotive and authentic with human storytelling at the heart of his work.
Matt’s work has won numerous awards including a Cannes GOLD Film Lion, GRAND Prix, One Show, MAD STARS, and Australian Screen Editors Guild Award for editing. His music video, “Medicine,” with director Salomon Ligthelm, won GOLD at the Cannes YDA and was nominated at Shots Awards and UKMVA for music video of the year. He was awarded a Clio Bronze for his editing work on Chevrolet’s “The Hunt Alone” with Lloyd Lee Choi, and 2 short films he edited “Them” and “Dear Enemy” received awards at the 2019 Berlin Commercial and nominations at the 2019 Kinsale Shark Awards, directed by Adrien Landre and Arne Totz respectively.
More recently his work with director Mackenzie Sheppard for Nike “Moving Mountains” was a finalist at TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL 2022, finalist at CICLOPE 2022, and nominated for People’s Choice Award at Webby’s 2023, and best editing finalist at CICLOPE 2022 and MAD STARS 2022, and won the ASE award for Best editing in Branded Content.
Nike’s “What are you working on?” featuring Olympic gold medalist skateboarder Yuto Horigome and directed by Michael Medoway also picked up numerous awards and nominations including a bronze at Clio Awards, and shortlists at ONE Show, Berlin Commercial and 2 x ADC Awards.
Matt’s work on an Adidas “Legacy” with director Xavier Tera also picked up a Silver in Film Craft for editing at MAD STARS 2022 and nominated at the 1.4 awards.
With a passion for the craft of editing, whatever the genre, format or length, Matt is focused on finding the most natural and organic moments that help tell a compelling story.
Outside of the edit suite Matt is an obsessed runner, could eat sushi for every meal, and loves cats.