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Joi McMillon
Biography
After assistant editing on reality TV shows, Joi McMillon got her break into editing features in 2007 as an apprentice to Terilyn A. Shropshire on Kasi Lemmons’s Talk to Me. As the co-editor of Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight, she and Nat Sanders received an Oscar nomination, making her the first black woman to be nominated for an Oscar for film editing. McMillon and Sanders won Best Film Editing at the 2017 Spirit Awards. They have since co-edited Jenkins’s next film, If Beale Street Could Talk.