Known for Sound
Daniel Laurie is a supervising sound editor, based at Skywalker Sound. He began his career working in the cutting rooms at Soho and at Pinewood Studios in the UK, where he developed his focus on dialogue, ADR, and supervising sound editing. Over the course of his career, he has contributed to more than 50 films, spanning smaller, independent, dialogue-driven features to large-scale, effects-heavy blockbusters. Among his most prominent credits are several films in the Marvel Studios franchise, where he served as supervising sound editor. These include Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), Captain America: Civil War (2016), Doctor Strange (2016), Thor: Ragnarok (2017), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), and Avengers: Endgame (2019). He also began by working on earlier British films, including Die Another Day (2002) and The Dreamers (2003), early in his career. His work has been formally recognised with major awards and nominations. He won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Sound Editing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special for Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012), shared with colleagues Douglas Murray, Pete Horner, Kim Foscato, Steve Boeddeker, Casey Langfelder, Andrea Gard, Pat Jackson, Goro Koyama, Andy Malcolm, and Joanie Diener. He was also nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Sound Editing for a Comedy or Drama Series (Half-Hour) for Agatha All Along (2024), shared with Kim Foscato, Paula Fairfield, Richard Gould, Jacob Riehle, Andre Zweers, Kim B. Christensen, Fernand Bos, Mary Parker, Jana Vance, and Ronni Brown. In addition to his Emmy honours, he was on the nominations list for the Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) Golden Reel Awards in several categories, including for films such as Avengers: Endgame.
Filmography
81 films, 1 show


Project Hail Mary
2026 · 2h 37m
country: United States
Science teacher Ryland Grace wakes up on a spaceship light years from home with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. As his memory returns, he begins to uncover his mission: solve the riddle of the mysterious substance causing the sun to die out. He must call on his scientific knowledge and unorthodox ideas to save everything on Earth from extinction.


McFarland, USA
2015 · 2h 8m
country: United States
A track coach in a small California town transforms a team of athletes into championship contenders.


Gone Girl
2014 · 2h 29m
country: United States
With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.


The Conjuring
2013 · 1h 52m
country: United States
Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most terrifying case of their lives.


People Like Us
2012 · 1h 54m
country: United States
After flying home to L.A. for the funeral of his estranged record-producer father, a struggling man discovers that the will stipulates that he must deliver $150,000 in cash to a 30-year-old alcoholic sister he never knew existed, and her troubled 12-year-old son.


The Lorax
2012 · 1h 26m
country: United States
A 12-year-old boy searches for the one thing that will enable him to win the affection of the girl of his dreams. To find it he must discover the story of the Lorax, the grumpy yet charming creature who fights to protect his world.


Flight
2012 · 2h 18m
country: United States
Commercial airline pilot Whip Whitaker has a problem with drugs and alcohol, though so far he's managed to complete his flights safely. His luck runs out when a disastrous mechanical malfunction sends his plane hurtling toward the ground. Whip pulls off a miraculous crash-landing that results in only six lives lost. Shaken to the core, Whip vows to get sober -- but when the crash investigation exposes his addiction, he finds himself in an even worse situation.


Killshot
2008 · 1h 35m
country: United States
Beautiful Carmen Colson and her ironworker husband Wayne are placed in the Federal Witness Protection program after witnessing an "incident". Thinking they are at last safe, they are targeted by an experienced hit man and a psychopathic young upstart killer.


Basic Instinct 2
2006 · 1h 56m
country: Germany
Novelist Catherine Tramell is once again in trouble with the law, and Scotland Yard appoints psychiatrist Dr. Michael Glass to evaluate her. Though, like Detective Nick Curran before him, Glass is entranced by Tramell and lured into a seductive game.


Breakfast on Pluto
2005 · 2h 8m
country: Ireland
In the 1970s, a young transgender woman called “Kitten” leaves her small Irish town for London in search of love, acceptance, and her long-lost mother.


Proof
2005 · 1h 40m
country: United States
Catherine is a woman in her late twenties who is strongly devoted to her father, Robert, a brilliant and well-known mathematician whose grip on reality is beginning to slip away. As Robert descends into madness, Catherine begins to wonder if she may have inherited her father's mental illness along with his mathematical genius.


Wimbledon
2004 · 1h 38m
country: United Kingdom
Britain’s Peter Colt has never quite lived up to his dreams of tennis stardom. Once ranked as high as number 11 in the world, the journeyman veteran has watched his number slip to 119 as his confidence on the court slowly ebbs away. Now, on the eve of his leaving the world of professional tennis, he’s granted a wild card, allowing him to play his final Wimbledon tournament…make that his final tournament ever.


Laws of Attraction
2004 · 1h 30m
country: Germany
Amidst a sea of litigation, two New York City divorce lawyers find love.


Mona Lisa Smile
2003 · 1h 57m
country: United States
Katherine Watson is a recent UCLA graduate hired to teach art history at the prestigious all-female Wellesley College, in 1953. Determined to confront the outdated mores of society and the institution that embraces them, Katherine inspires her traditional students, including Betty and Joan, to challenge the lives they are expected to lead.


The Good Thief
2003 · 1h 48m
country: Canada
An aging gambler on a losing streak attempts to rob a casino in Monte Carlo. But someone's already tipped off the cops before he even makes a move.


The Four Feathers
2002 · 2h 12m
country: Morocco
A young British officer resigns his post when he learns of his regiment's plan to ship out to the Sudan for the conflict with the Mahdi. His friends and fiancée send him four white feathers as symbols of what they view as his cowardice. To redeem his honor, he disguises himself as an Arab and secretly saves their lives.


Possession
2002 · 1h 42m
country: United Kingdom
Maud Bailey, a brilliant English academic, is researching the life and work of poet Christabel La Motte. Roland Michell is an American scholar in London to study Randolph Henry Ash, now best-known for a collection of poems dedicated to his wife. When Maud and Roland discover a cache of love letters that appear to be from Ash to La Motte, they follow a trail of clues across England, echoing the journey of the couple over a century earlier.


Dust
2001 · 2h 7m
country: Germany
Two parallel tales of redemption, a century apart. In the New York storyline, Edge hunts for Angela's gold to pay back a debt, and gradually grows closer to her. In the Macedonian story, the brothers end up fighting for opposite sides of a revolution, with the religious Elijah taking up sides with the Ottoman sultan and gunslinger Luke joining "the Teacher" , a Macedonian rebel.


Blow Dry
2001 · 1h 31m
country: Germany
The annual British Hairdressing Championship comes to Keighley, a town where Phil and son Brian run a barbershop and Phil's ex-wife Shelly and her lover Sandra run a beauty salon.