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Paul Hirsch is an American motion picture editor. To suggest a relevant news story for the main page, refer to the criteria then add your suggestion at the candidates page. ...
This art history major dropped out of Columbia graduate school to pursue a career in editing trailors and montages. In the early 1970s he was introduced by his brother, Charles, to then unknown filmmaker Brian De Palma. Their collaboration yielded ten feature films:
Blow Out (1981) Carrie (1976) Fury, The (1978) Hi, Mom! (1970) Mission to Mars (2000) Mission: Impossible (1996) Obsession (1976) Phantom of the Paradise (1974) Raising Cain (1992) Sisters (1973)
In 1978, he along with Richard Chew and Marica Lucas won the academy award for achievement in film editing.
It is rumored that Hirsch and De Palma are no longer on speaking terms with each other. In 2001/2002 he was fired from "The adventure of Pluto Nash". But in 2003 he replaced the original editor on "Ray".
It is also rumored that he has been on and off been working on his memoirs for the past decade.
Hirsch is known for giving aspiring film editors guidance.
Film editing is an art form which can either make or break a scene in a film.
His film editing was a contrast in that it was quiet editing; you don’t see the cuts of the film, but feel them emotionally on a human level.
Finally, PaulHirsch’s scene from “Ray” was comprised of quick cutting style and a quick succession of scenes that begin with a love affair Ray Charles (Jamie Foxx) has with studio singer, Margie Hendricks (Regina King).
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