Paul Hirsch (film editor)
{{Short description|American film editor}}
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| name = Paul Hirsch
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| birth_name = Paul Frederick Hirsch
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1945|11|14}}
| birth_place = New York City, U.S.
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| education = Columbia University (BA)
| occupation = Film editor
| years_active = 1970–present
| movement = New Hollywood
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| father = Joseph Hirsch
| awards = Academy Award for Best Editing, Saturn Award for Best Editing, ACE Eddie Award for Best Edited Feature Film
| honours = Camerimage Award to an Editor with Unique Visual Sensitivity
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Paul Frederick Hirsch (born November 14, 1945) is an American film editor{{cite web|title=Paul Hirsch|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/92991/Paul-Hirsch|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222055657/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/92991/Paul-Hirsch|url-status=dead|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=The New York Times|date=2014|archive-date=2014-02-22}} with over 40 film credits since 1970, best known as one of the premier filmmakers to come out of the New Hollywood movement,{{Cite web|url=https://www.starwarsinterviews.com/star-wars-crew/paul-hirsch-editor/|title=Paul Hirsch (Editor) – Star Wars Interviews|website=www.starwarsinterviews.com|language=en-GB|access-date=2017-09-18}} collaborating with directors like Brian De Palma,{{Cite news|url=http://cinemontage.org/2014/09/paul-hirsch-blow/|title=Paul Hirsch on 'Blow Out' – CineMontage|date=2014-09-01|work=CineMontage|access-date=2017-09-18|language=en-US}} George Lucas, George A. Romero, and Herbert Ross. He won an Academy Award and Saturn Award for his work on the original Star Wars, which he shared with Richard Chew and Marcia Lucas.
Life and career
Hirsch is a native of New York City, and the son of painter Joseph Hirsch. His father was of German-Jewish descent.Paul Cummings, [https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-joseph-hirsch-12277#transcript Oral History Interview with Joseph Hirsh], (Archives of American Art, November 13 & December 2, 1970). After graduating from Columbia in 1966,{{Cite web|title="Oh, Who Owns Paree?"|url=https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct_archive/sep_oct07/features1.html|access-date=2021-10-02|website=Columbia College Today}} 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. John Castagno, Jewish Artists: Signatures and Monograms (Rowman & Littlefield, 2010), p. 209.
In 1978, he won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for his work on Star Wars, along with Richard Chew and Marcia Lucas. He was also the first person to win the Saturn Award for Best Editing twice, first for Star Wars in 1977 and then Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol in 2011.
He has edited over 35 feature films, including The Empire Strikes Back, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Mission: Impossible, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Footloose, Carrie, Falling Down, Phantom of the Paradise, Obsession, Blow Out, 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). He has also worked with Duncan Jones on Source Code and Warcraft.
Hirsch rarely watches movies other than his own more than once. However, he cites that the musical An American in Paris and the science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey are worthy of repeat viewing.{{cite web|work=Slate|date=2006|url=http://www.slate.com/id/2144555/|title=The Movie I've Seen the Most}}
Filmography
= As film editor =
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| Year
! Film ! Director ! Notes |
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| 1970
|rowspan=5|Brian De Palma | |
| 1972
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| 1974
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| rowspan=2|1976
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| Obsession
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| 1977
|Co-editor with Marcia Lucas & Richard Chew Academy Award for Best Film Editing |
| rowspan=2|1978
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| The Fury
|Brian De Palma | |
| 1980
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| 1981
|Brian De Palma | |
| 1982
|Segment: "The Crate" |
| 1983
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| 1984
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| 1986
|rowspan=2|John Hughes | |
| rowspan=2|1987
|Planes, Trains and Automobiles | |
| The Secret of My Success
|rowspan=2|Herbert Ross | |
| 1989
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| 1990
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| 1991
|Co-editor with Adam Bernardi & Rick Shaine |
| 1992
|Brian De Palma |Co-editor with Robert Dalva & Bonnie Koehler |
| rowspan=2|1993
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| Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
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| 1994
|Co-editor with Adam Bernardi & Walter Murch |
| 1996
|Brian De Palma |Nominated—Awards Circuit Community Award for Best Editing |
| rowspan=2|1998
|Co-edited with Amnon David and Gillian L. Hutshing |
| Mighty Joe Young
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| 1999
|Co-edited with Marshall Harvey |
| 2000
|Brian De Palma | |
| 2002
|Ron Underwood |Co-edited with Alan Heim |
| 2003
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| 2004
|Ray |ACE Eddie for Best Edited Feature film – Comedy or Musical |
| rowspan=2|2006
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| Deck the Halls
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| 2008
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| 2010
|Taylor Hackford | |
| rowspan=3|2011
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| Dylan Dog: Dead of Night
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| Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol |
| 2016
|Duncan Jones | |
| 2017
|Co-editor with Gina Hirsch & Andrew Mondshein |
= As additional editor =
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| Year
! Film ! Director !Editor(s) ! Notes |
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| 1979
|Corky O'Hara | |
| 1986
|Wendy Greene Bricmont | |
| 2002
|Clive Barrett | |
| 2007
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| 2012
|Uncredited |
| rowspan="2" |2013
|Jason Ballantine | |
| World War Z
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| 2018
|The Nutcracker and the Four Realms |Stuart Levy | |
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|386532|Paul Hirsch}}
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Category:American film editors
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