Michael Kahn
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Kahn (film editor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography (56)
The Fabelmans
West Side Story
Ready Player One
The Post
The BFG
Bridge of Spies
Seventh Son
Lincoln
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
The Adventures of Tintin
War Horse
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
The Spiderwick Chronicles
10 Items or Less
War of the Worlds
Munich
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
The Terminal
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
Peter Pan
Catch Me If You Can
Minority Report
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Shrek
Chicken Run
Reindeer Games
The Haunting
Saving Private Ryan
Antz
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Amistad
Twister
Casper
Jurassic Park
Schindler's List
Alive
Hook
Toy Soldiers
Arachnophobia
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Always
Fatal Attraction
Empire of the Sun
The Color Purple
The Goonies
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Falling in Love
Twilight Zone: The Movie
Poltergeist
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Used Cars
1941
Eyes of Laura Mars
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
