Maryann Brandon is an American

United States

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 film editor. She is represented by United Talent Agency.

Brandon earned an Emmy Award

Emmy Award

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 nomination for her editing work on the popular television series Alias

Alias (TV series)

Alias is an American action television series created by J. J. Abrams which was broadcast on ABC for five seasons, from September 30, 2001 to May 22, 2006...

, created by J.J. Abrams. She also co-edited Abrams' film

Film

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 directorial debut, Mission: Impossible III

Mission: Impossible III

Mission: Impossible III is a 2006 spy film, the third based on the spy-themed television series Mission: Impossible starring Tom Cruise who reprises his role of IMF agent Ethan Hunt....

, with Mary Jo Markey

Mary Jo Markey

Mary Jo Markey is an American film and television editor, who has also worked as an actress. Markey has edited several mainstream films including Medicine Man, Bad Boy, and Mission: Impossible III...

. Brandon and Markey again worked together on Star Trek, also directed by Abrams.

Brandon was also an associate producer on Alias during its final season.

Brandon has been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors

American Cinema Editors

Founded in 1950, American Cinema Editors is an honorary society of film editors that are voted in based on the qualities of professional achievements, their education of others, and their dedication to editing itself. The society is not to be confused with an industry union, such as the I.A.T.S.E...

.

Partial filmography

• Bingo
  Bingo (film)
  Bingo is a 1991 American family comedy film, released by TriStar Pictures.Bingo, a runaway circus dog saves the life of Chuckie , a young boy who is somewhat an outcast within his family. The two quickly become best friends - skateboarding, playing pinball, and doing math homework together...
  
  - 1991
• Born to Be Wild
  Born to Be Wild (film)
  Born to Be Wild is a 1995 American family comedy film. The film grossed $3.7 million in the box office.-Plot:Rick Heller is a juvenile delinquent who keeps getting himself into trouble. To keep him out of trouble his mother puts him to work cleaning the cage of a female gorilla named Katie which...
  
  - 1995
• Grumpier Old Men
  Grumpier Old Men
  Grumpier Old Men is a 1995 romantic comedy film, and a sequel to the 1993 film Grumpy Old Men. The film stars Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret, and Sophia Loren, with Burgess Meredith, Daryl Hannah, Kevin Pollak, Katie Sagona, Ann Morgan Guilbert...
  
  - 1995 (co-edited with Seth Flaum and Billy Weber
  Billy Weber
  Billy Weber is an American film editor with more than twenty film credits dating from Days of Heaven .One of Weber's first editing roles was as associate editor on Terrence Malick's first feature as a director, Badlands . Badlands was edited by Robert Estrin; Weber edited Malick's next film Days...
  
  )
• A Thousand Acres
  A Thousand Acres (film)
  A Thousand Acres is an American motion picture drama directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse, and starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Jessica Lange, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jason Robards....
  
  - 1997
• The Miracle Worker - 2000
• Alias
  Alias (TV series)
  Alias is an American action television series created by J. J. Abrams which was broadcast on ABC for five seasons, from September 30, 2001 to May 22, 2006...
  
  - 2001–05
• Mission: Impossible III
  Mission: Impossible III
  Mission: Impossible III is a 2006 spy film, the third based on the spy-themed television series Mission: Impossible starring Tom Cruise who reprises his role of IMF agent Ethan Hunt....
  
  - 2006
• The Jane Austen Book Club
  The Jane Austen Book Club (film)
  The Jane Austen Book Club is a 2007 American romantic drama film written and directed by Robin Swicord. The screenplay, adapted from the 2004 novel of the same name by Karen Joy Fowler, focuses on a book club formed specifically to discuss the six novels written by Jane Austen...
  
  - 2007
• Star Trek - 2009
• How to Train Your Dragon
  How to Train Your Dragon (film)
  How to Train Your Dragon is a 2010 3D computer-animated action fantasy film by DreamWorks Animation loosely based on the 2003 book of the same name. The film stars the voices of Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, T.J. Miller, Kristen Wiig, and Christopher...
  
  - 2010 (co-edited with Darren T. Holmes
  Darren T. Holmes
  Darren T. Holmes is a film editor whose credits include three animated films The Iron Giant , Lilo & Stitch , and Ratatouille .Holmes has been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors.-References:...
  
  )
• Gulliver's Travels
  Gulliver's Travels (2010 film)
  Gulliver's Travels is a 2010 fantasy comedy film directed by Rob Letterman and very loosely based on Part One of the 18th-century novel of the same name by Jonathan Swift, though the film takes place in modern day...
  
  - 2010
• Super 8
  Super 8 (film)
  Super 8 is a 2011 American science fiction action film written and directed by J. J. Abrams and produced by Steven Spielberg. The film stars Joel Courtney, Elle Fanning, and Kyle Chandler and was released on June 10, 2011 in conventional and IMAX theaters...
  
  - 2011

External links

• Official resume at United Talent Agency