Mary Jo Markey | |
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| Occupation(s) | Television and film editor |
Mary Jo Markey is an American television and film editor. [1] Markey has been elected to membership of the American Cinema Editors society. [2] She is a frequent collaborator with J. J. Abrams and Maryann Brandon.
Markey has edited several mainstream films including The Perks of Being a Wallflower and Mission: Impossible III . She has also worked as an editor on several television shows, such as three episodes of Felicity , Breaking News , Skin , fourteen episodes of Alias , and was also chief editor on Lost .
She worked with Abrams on three of his television shows (Felicity, Alias, and Lost), and on almost all of his feature films as director with Maryann Brandon, with Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker being the lone exception. [3] Markey worked with Abrams on Star Wars: The Force Awakens , which was released in December 2015. [4] Along with her co-editor Brandon, she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Film Editing for her work on the film. [5]
In her role editing Abrams' Star Trek , she reported she did not realize that he intended to make extensive use of lens flares and bright lighting, and contacted the film developers asking why the film seemed overexposed. [6]
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
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| 1996 | Mariette in Ecstasy | John Bailey | Co-edited with Greg Finton |
| 2002 | Dawg | Victoria Hochberg | Co-edited with Claudia Finkle |
| 2006 | Mission: Impossible III | J. J. Abrams | Co-edited with Maryann Brandon |
| 2009 | Star Trek | Co-edited with Maryann Brandon
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| 2010 | Killers | Robert Luketic | Co-edited with Richard Francis-Bruce |
| 2011 | Super 8 | J. J. Abrams | Co-edited with Maryann Brandon
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| 2012 | The Perks of Being a Wallflower | Stephen Chbosky | |
| 2013 | Star Trek Into Darkness | J. J. Abrams | Co-edited with Maryann Brandon |
| 2015 | Star Wars: The Force Awakens | Co-edited with Maryann Brandon
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| 2016 | The Great Wall | Zhang Yimou | Co-edited with Craig Wood |
| 2017 | Life | Daniel Espinosa | Co-edited with Frances Parker |
| 2019 | Charlie's Angels | Elizabeth Banks | |
| 2021 | The Eyes of Tammy Faye | Michael Showalter |
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
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| 1996 | The Cold Equations | Peter Geiger | |
| 1997 | The Stepsisters | Charles Correll | |
| 1998 | Rhapsody in Bloom | Craig M. Saavedra | |
| Meteorites! | Chris Thomson | ||
| Giving Up the Ghost | Claudia Weill | ||
| 2007 | Life Support | Nelson George | Nominated — Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Limited Series or Movie Nominated — ACE Eddie for Best Edited Miniseries or Motion Picture for Non-Commercial Television |
| 2009 | Anatomy of Hope | J. J. Abrams | |
| 2014 | The Money | Justin Chadwick | |
| Year | Title | Network | Episode(s) |
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| 1998–2002 | Felicity | The WB | 14 |
| 2001–2004 | Alias | ABC | 14 |
| 2004–2009 | Lost | 12 | |