Michael Kahn
Editing
Awards
Won 3 Academy Awards
Academy Awards 3 won
- 1999 Best Film Editing Won Saving Private Ryan
- 1994 Best Film Editing Won
- 1982 Best Film Editing Won Raiders of the Lost Ark
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Michael Kahn (born December 8, c. 1930) is an American film editor known for his frequent collaboration with Steven Spielberg. His first collaboration with Spielberg was for his 1977 film, Close Encounters of the Third Kind. He has edited all of Spielberg's subsequent films except for E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), which was edited by Carol Littleton. Kahn has received eight Academy Award nominations for Best Film Editing and has won three times—for Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Schindler's List (1993), and Saving Private Ryan (1998), which were all Spielberg-directed films.
Kahn was born to a Jewish family in New York City. While his birth year has been reported as 1935, Kahn said in 2015, when asked if he was 80, that his age at that point was "closer to 85."
Kahn has edited digitally since at least Twister (1996), though he continued to edit on film with Spielberg long after most editors had stopped doing so. In 2008, Kahn acknowledged that "people find it hard to believe that Steven and I still edit film on a Moviola and a KEM. [But] Steven feels film got us where we are today, and he loves the smell of it and feel of it. We started that way and both really enjoy it." George Lucas remarked, "Michael Kahn can cut faster on a Moviola than anybody can cut on an Avid." However, since The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn (2011), Kahn has edited Spielberg's films on an Avid machine.
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Other credits
57 credits
Hogan's Heroes
Schindler's List
Shrek
Saving Private Ryan
Ready Player One
Raiders of the Lost Ark
War of the Worlds
Catch Me If You Can
The Goonies
Jurassic Park
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
The Fabelmans
Minority Report
Peter Pan
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
The Adventures of Tintin
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Chicken Run
Hook
The Terminal
The Post
Twister
Seventh Son
The Bridge
The BFG
Bridge of Spies
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Spiderwick Chronicles
War Horse
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Casper
Antz
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Fatal Attraction
Lincoln
Munich
Poltergeist
West Side Story
Arachnophobia
Empire of the Sun
Alive
The Color Purple
The Haunting
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
Twilight Zone: The Movie
Reindeer Games
1941
Always
Black Belt Jones
Toy Soldiers
Used Cars
Falling in Love
10 Items or Less
Eyes of Laura Mars
The Return of a Man Called Horse
The Devil’s Rain
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