Joi McMillon


Joi McMillon is an American film editor, known for her work on the Academy Award-winning film Moonlight, for which she won several 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.

Filmography

Editor