Paul Hirsch is an American film editor, has collaborated with directors like Brian De Palma, George Lucas, Herbert Ross, Joel Schumacher, George A. Romero, Taylor Hackford. He won an Academy Award for his work on the original Star Wars (George Lucas, 1977). With De Palma Hirsch worked on eleven films: Hi, Mom!, Sisters, Phantom of the Paradise, Carrie, Obsession, The Fury, Home Movies, Blow Out, Raising Cain, Mission: Impossible, Mission to Mars. He has collected anecdotes of his career in the memoir titled A Long Time Ago in a Cutting Room Far, Far Away (Chicago Review Press, 2019).