Tina Hirsch

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Tina Hirsch is an Emmy-nominated American film editor. In 2000, she became the first woman to be president of the honorary society the American Cinema Editors. [1] She is also known as Bettina Kugel Hirsch, Bettina Hirsch and Bettina Kugel.

She edited numerous films since the late 1960s and 1970s, including the cult film Death Race 2000 (1975) and the sequels More American Graffiti (1979) and Airplane II: The Sequel (1982). In the 1980s she received the opportunity to work for producer Steven Spielberg, editing the "It's a Good Life" sequence in Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) and then Gremlins (1984). She directed the film Munchies, cited as similar to the latter.^[1]

In 1999 she edited "A Proportional Response" and "What Kind of Day Has It Been," episodes of the television series The West Wing. For this work, in 2000 she was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Single Camera Picture Editing for a Series, and also won an Eddie Award from the American Cinema Editors. She was nominated for her second Emmy in 2005 for editing the television miniseries Back When We Were Grownups (2004).