Mary Jo Markey
Mary Jo Markey is an American television and film editor. Markey has been elected to membership of the American Cinema Editors society. She is a frequent collaborator with J. J. Abrams.
Career
Markey has edited several mainstream films including The Perks of Being a Wallflower and '. 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, and on almost all of his feature films as director with Maryann Brandon, with ' being the lone exception. Markey worked with Abrams on , which was released in December 2015. Along with her co-editor Brandon, she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Film Editing for her work on the film.
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.
Filmography
Feature films| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
| 1996 | Mariette in Ecstasy | John Bailey | Co-edited with Greg Finton |
| 2002 | Dawg | Victoria Hochberg | Co-edited with Claudia Finkle |
| 2006 | ' | J.J. Abrams | Co-edited with Maryann Brandon |
| 2009 | Star Trek | J.J. Abrams | Co-edited with Maryann Brandon |
| 2010 | Killers | Robert Luketic | Co-edited with Richard Francis-Bruce |
| 2011 | Super 8 | J.J. Abrams | Co-edited with Maryann Brandon |
| 2012 | The Perks of Being a Wallflower | Stephen Chbosky | |
| 2013 | Star Trek Into Darkness | J.J. Abrams | Co-edited with Maryann Brandon |
| 2015 | ' | J.J. Abrams | Co-edited with Maryann Brandon |
| 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 | |
| TBA | The Eyes of Tammy Faye | Michael Showalter | Post-production |
Television films
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
| 1996 | The Cold Equations | Peter Geiger | |
| 1997 | The Stepsisters | Charles Correll | |
| 1998 | Rhapsody in Bloom | Craig M. Saavedra | |
| 1998 | Meteorites! | Chris Thomson | |
| 1998 | 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 |
Television series
| Year | Title | Network | Episode |
| 1998-2002 | Felicity | The WB | 14 |
| 2001-2004 | Alias | ABC | 14 |
| 2004-2009 | Lost | ABC | 12 |