Originally from Sydney, Australia, and now based in Ontario, Canada, Michelle Osis is an award-winning composer for film and television. Her work has been screened at festivals including TIFF, HotDocs, the Austin Film Festival, Cannes, and Fantasia.

Michelle is noted for her work in the horror/thriller genre and documentaries. Her credits include the acclaimed films Juggernaut (dir. Daniel DiMarco), Shudder's Night of the Reaper (dir. Brandon Christensen), Hulu's Carved (dir. Justin Harding), and Abandoned (starring Emma Roberts and Michael Shannon). She also composed the score for Dark Match (dir. Lowell Dean) and Bloodthirsty (dir. Amelia Moses), the latter of which won Best Score at the 2022 Bloodguts UK Horror Awards. With four Canadian Screen Award nominations to her name, Michelle recently earned a Canadian Screen Music Award for her work on the crime thriller series Murder on the Inca Trail, and was shortlisted for the inaugural Billboard Canada Screen Composers of the Year Award.

Her latest projects include co-scoring the Sam Raimi Netflix horror/thriller feature Don't Move (#1 on Netflix’s Global Top 10 Movies) with Mark Korven, as well as the second and third seasons of the MGM series of Billy the Kid, and the IMAX documentary T.Rex, collaborating with the Budapest Scoring Orchestra. In addition to her composing work, Michelle has shared her experience as an instructor in horror scoring at the SCGC Academy.

A skilled synthesist and classical pianist, Michelle is an alumna of the Canadian Film Centre's Slaight Music Residency program, chaired by Mychael Danna. She holds a Graduate Certificate in Screen Music from the Australian Film Television Radio School and a Bachelor of Music in Composition and Music Production from the Australian Institute of Music.