Paul Hirsch (film editor)
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Paul Hirsch is an American motion picture editor.
After graduating from Columbia he began to pursue a career in editing. In the late 1960s, while editing trailers in NYC, he was introduced by his brother, Charles, to then unknown filmmaker Brian De Palma. Their collaboration has yielded eleven feature films:
- Mission to Mars (2000)
- Mission: Impossible (1996)
- Raising Cain (1992)
- Blow Out (1981)
- Home Movies (1980) - Editorial Consultant
- The Fury (1978)
- Carrie (1976)
- Obsession (1976)
- Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
- Sisters (1973)
- Hi, Mom! (1970)
In 1978, he won the Academy Award for Film Editing for his work on Star Wars, along with Richard Chew and Marcia Lucas.
He has edited 27 other feature films, including "The Empire Strikes Back", "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", "Planes, Trains & Automobiles", "Footloose", "Falling Down", "The Secret of My Success", "Steel Magnolias" and "Ray", for which he received a second Academy Award nomination in 2005 and the American Cinema Editors" award for Best Edited Feature Film (Comedy or Musical).
[edit] External links
Paul Hirsch at the Internet Movie Database
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