Biography
Paul Hirsch is an American film editor born on 14 November 1945 in New York City. He graduated from Columbia University and began his career in the late 1960s editing trailers before moving into feature films. He has more than 40 credits since 1970.
Hirsch is known for his work on Star Wars (1977), for which he shared an Academy Award for Best Film Editing, The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Carrie (1976), Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), Falling Down (1993) and Mission: Impossible (1996). He has collaborated frequently with directors including Brian De Palma on eleven films and George Lucas. He received a second Academy Award nomination for Ray (2004).
He was the first person to win the Saturn Award for Best Editing twice, for Star Wars and Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011). He is the son of painter Joseph Hirsch.
