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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 (2016), and If Beale Street Could Talk (2018), both winning several respective accolades.
Joi McMillon is known for Moonlight (2016), If Beale Street Could Talk (2018) and The Underground Railroad (2021).
When Joi McMillon received an Oscar nomination for her work on Moonlight, she made history as the first Black woman to be nominated for Best Film Editing. "For me, that distinction comes with great responsibility," she says now. "I am honored to be the first, but my mission is to make sure I am not the last."
Joi McMillon made history in January when she became the first black woman (and only the second black person in nearly half a decade) to be nominated in the Best Editing category at the Academy...
On this week’s episode of Working, Isaac Butler spoke with Joi McMillon, an Oscar-nominated film editor who has worked on Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk, and The Underground Railroad. They...
Joi McMillon, who became the first African-American female editor nominated for her sensitive work on Barry Jenkins’ “ Moonlight ” (shared with co-editor Nat Sanders), peeled back the...
MOONLIGHT is the tender, heartbreaking story of a young black man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.
