Biography
James D. Wilcox is an American film and television editor and director. He began his career in broadcast journalism in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1982 after studying mass communications broadcast management at Clark Atlanta University. He worked in television news and sports before moving into scripted series, commercials and features.
Wilcox is known for editing the feature films Hillbilly Elegy (2020) and Thirteen Lives (2022), the miniseries Roots (2016) and episodes of Ahsoka (2023). He has collaborated with director Ron Howard on Hillbilly Elegy and the series Genius, for which he received an American Cinema Editors Eddie award. He has also edited episodes of CSI: Miami and Hawaii Five-0.
