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American film editor

Julia Wong
Occupation	Film editor
Years active	1995–present

Julia Wong is an American film editor best known for her diverse body of work on blockbusters like X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) and Hercules (2014); comedies like The Pink Panther 2 (2009), Extract (2009), Unpregnant (2020), and Hocus Pocus 2 (2022); thrillers like Child's Play (2019); and the musical remake of Valley Girl (2020).

In film school, she won the Eddie Award for Best Student Editing from American Cinema Editors (ACE). After two decades in film and television, Wong has become a member of ACE as well as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She won a Satellite Award for Best Film Editing on X-Men: The Last Stand, which she co-edited with Mark Helfrich and Mark Goldblatt. And she has been a guest speaker on panels for ACE, the Motion Picture Editors Guild, and the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival (LAAPFF).

Filmography

Editor
Year	Film	Director	Notes
2004	The Seat Filler	Nick Castle
2005	Santa's Slay	David Steiman
2006	End Game	Andy Cheng
2006	X-Men: The Last Stand	Brett Ratner	Second collaboration with Brett Ratner
2007	Good Luck Chuck	Mark Helfrich
2009	The Pink Panther 2	Harald Zwart
2009	Extract	Mike Judge
2011	Red Riding Hood	Catherine Hardwicke	First collaboration with Catherine Hardwicke
2013	Plush	Catherine Hardwicke	Second collaboration with Catherine Hardwicke
2014	Hercules	Brett Ratner	Third collaboration with Brett Ratner
2016	The Belko Experiment	Greg McLean
2017	The Last Word	Mark Pellington
2018	The Domestics	Mike P. Nelson
2019	Child's Play	Lars Klevberg
2020	Gretel & Hansel	Oz Perkins
	Valley Girl	Rachel Lee Goldenberg	First collaboration with Rachel Lee Goldenberg
	Unpregnant	Rachel Lee Goldenberg	Second collaboration with Rachel Lee Goldenberg
2022	Last Seen Alive	Brian Goodman
2022	Hocus Pocus 2	Anne Fletcher

Editorial department
Year	Film	Director	Role	Notes
1996	Wedding Bell Blues	Dana Lustig	Assistant editor
1999	Foolish	Dave Meyers
1999	Simon Sez	Kevin Alyn Elders
2000	Next Friday	Steve Carr
2000	Stranger than Fiction	Eric Bross
2001	On the Borderline	Michael Oblowitz
	Tangled	Jay Lowi
	Out Cold	The Malloys	First assistant editor
2002	Unfaithful	Adrian Lyne	Assistant editor
2003	Honey	Bille Woodruff	Associate editor
2004	After the Sunset	Brett Ratner	Additional editor	First collaboration with Brett Ratner
2007	Along the Way	Andrew Bowen	Assistant editor

Thanks
Year	Film	Director	Role
2015	Barely Lethal	Kyle Newman	Thanks

Editor
Year	Film	Director
2002	The Fine Line Between Cute and Creepy	Robert D. Slane
2004	Mindgame	Jamie Neese

Cinematographer
Year	Film	Director
1995	The Chick That Was Naked	Kurt Fitzpatrick

Editor
Year	Film	Director
2011	Rogue	Brett Ratner
2015	Ken Jeong Made Me Do It	Peter Segal

Editorial department
Year	Film	Director	Role
1997	Asteroid	Bradford May	Assistant editor
1998	When Husbands Cheat	Richard A. Colla
1998	Gargantua	Bradford May

Editorial department
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1997	Asteroid	Assistant editor	2 episodes
2000	The Street	Assistant editor	7 episodes
2005	Prison Break	Additional editor	1 episode

v t e Satellite Award for Best Editing
David Brenner (1996) Conrad Buff IV and Richard A. Harris (1997) Michael Kahn (1998) Andrew Mondshein (1999) Conrad Buff IV (2000) John Gilbert (2001) Thelma Schoonmaker (2002) Victor Du Bois and Steven Rosenblum (2003) Jim Miller and Paul Rubell (2004) Geraldine Peroni and Dylan Tichenor (2005) Mark Goldblatt, Mark Helfrich, and Julia Wong (2006) Pietro Scalia (2007) Dan Lebental (2008) Chris Innis and Bob Murawski (2009) Robert Frazen (2010) Chris Gill (2011) Jay Cassidy and Crispin Struthers (2012) Alan Baumgarten, Jay Cassidy, and Crispin Struthers (2013) William Hoy and Stan Salfas (2014) Joe Walker (2015) John Gilbert (2016) William Hoy and Stan Salfas (2017) Alfonso Cuarón (2018) Andrew Buckland and Michael McCusker (2019) Alan Baumgarten (2020) Joe Walker (2021) Paul Rogers (2022) Kevin Tent (2023)

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