Maysie Hoy is a film editor who has been active since the early 1990s. She is a long-time collaborator with director Tyler Perry, having edited 16 films for him. She was nominated twice for an American Cinema Editors award, and in 2025, she received their Career Achievement Award. Hoy is also on the Board of Directors of both the Motion Picture Editors Guild and American Cinema Editors.
Hoy has a brother, William Hoy, who is also a film editor.
Background Maysie Hoy and her brother William Hoy were born in Vancouver to Chinese parents. She studied improvisational theatre in San Francisco and moved back to Vancouver, where she founded the improvisational company The Good Will Store and became its artistic director. She was cast in director Robert Altman's film McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971), and after filming was completed, she moved to Los Angeles. She worked under Altman for eight years, doing research, costume, and production design. She also appeared in several other of Altman's films: California Split (1974), Nashville (1975), and 3 Women (1977). She became an editing apprentice on Altman's Buffalo Bill and the Indians (1976).
While working in editing, she enrolled in the American Film Institute's Directing Workshop for Women and completed the program in 1977. During the 1980s, she took eight years off to raise her two children while her husband worked as gaffer. When he was out of work, she sought work and became first assistant film editor for Major League (1989). The editing led to more work, for the film The Player (1992). One of her first solo editing credits was the film The Joy Luck Club (1993).
From the late 2000s onward, she frequently edited Tyler Perry's films.
Credits
+ Hoy's editing credits for film Year Title Notes 1992 Bank Robber 1993 1994 There Goes My Baby Edited with Danford B. Greene 1995 Smoke Mrs. Munck 1996 Freeway 1997 Love Jones 1998 What Dreams May Come Edited with David Brenner 1999 Life Tastes Good Crazy in Alabama Edited with Robert C. Jones 2003 Chasing Papi 2005 Christmas in the Clouds Edited with Alan Baumgarten Smile 2006 Broken Bridges 2007 Daddy's Little Girls Why Did I Get Married? 2008 Meet the Browns 2009 Madea Goes to Jail I Can Do Bad All by Myself 2010 Why Did I Get Married Too? For Colored Girls 2011 Madea's Big Happy Family 2012 Good Deeds Madea's Witness Protection 2013 Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor 2014 2015 Spare Parts 2017 Love Beats Rhymes Edited with Bruce Cannon 2018 Alex & Me 2019 Breakthrough 2020 Mighty Oak Edited with Matt Michael 2021 Afterlife of the Party 2022 2023 2024 2025 Ruth & Boaz
+ Hoy's editing credits for television Year(s) Title Notes 1991 Boris and Natasha TV movie 2000 Freedom Song TV movie 2001 TV movie 2006 Time Bomb TV movie; edited with Victor Du Bois 2015 Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors TV movie 2016 Dolly Parton's Christmas of Many Colors: Circle of Love TV movie 2019 Dolly Parton's Heartstrings TV series, 2 episodes 2019 Same Time, Next Christmas TV movie
Accolades + Hoy's accolades Year Film Award Ceremony Result 2015 Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Miniseries or Motion Picture for Television January 29, 2016 2023 American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Miniseries or Motion Picture for Television March 5, 2023 2025 American Cinema Editors Career Achievement Award March 14, 2025
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