Joi McMillon


Joi McMillon is an American film editor. In 2003, she graduated from Florida State University College of Motion Picture Arts. McMillon is known for her work on the Academy Award-winning film Moonlight, and If Beale Street Could Talk, both winning several respective accolades.

Career

McMillon initially planned to be a journalist, but a high school field trip to Universal Studios introduced her to the craft of editing and inspired her to apply to film school. She attended Florida State University College of Motion Picture Arts, graduating in 2003.
In 2017, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Film Editing at the 89th Academy Awards. McMillon is the first black woman to be nominated for an Oscar for film editing. Barry Jenkins said of her nomination in 2017: "I respect her work. It makes me very proud of the work she did to see that I'm not the only one. Clearly all these folks in the academy respected the work she did as well." McMillon also won Best Film Editing for her work on Moonlight at the 2017 Spirit Awards.
Since then, she has edited numerous films and a television series. In 2018, she collaborated with Nat Sanders again on the editing of If Beale Street Could Talk. In 2020, McMillon cut together Zola with filmmaker Janicza Bravo. Zola went on to win 2022 Winner Independent Spirit Award for Best Editing. In 2021, Joi led the editorial department on The Underground Railroad, a limited series adapted from Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel for Amazon Studios.

Filmography

Editor

Blue Boy Shades of Gray Shoot the Moon Chlorophyl The Other Side of Silence The Radio Gamers Off-Season SMILF Anne & Jake Girls Man Rots from the Head Moonlight Lemon Hum American Woman If Beale Street Could Talk Zola The Underground Railroad

Editorial department

The Biggest Loser The Surreal Life Going Hollywood Beauty and the Geek The Sarah Silverman Program Talk to Me Taking 5 Judy's Got a Gun Columbus Day American Violet Not Easily Broken I Can Do Bad All by Myself Why Did I Get Married Too? Arcadia Lost For Colored Girls Madea's Big Happy Family Good Deeds Madea's Witness Protection Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor Wyatt Cenac: Brooklyn Togetherness Another Evil Sausage Party

Other credits

Little Brown Boy My Josephine Straw Hat Medicine for Melancholy