Known For
Editing
Born
Dec 08, 1930
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Credits
91 titles
Michael Kahn
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Disclosure Day
Co-Producer
The Fabelmans
Editor
West Side Story
Editor
Ready Player One
Editor
The Post
Editor
Spielberg
Self
The BFG
Editor
A Case of the Cold War: Bridge of Spies
Self
Bridge of Spies
Editor
Seventh Son
Editor
The Bridge
Editor
Lincoln
Editor
War Horse
Editor
The Adventures of Tintin
Editor
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Additional Editor
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Editor
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Editor
The Spiderwick Chronicles
Editor
10 Items or Less
Editor
Munich
Editor
Othello
Director
War of the Worlds
Editor
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Editor
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
Self
The Terminal
Editor
Peter Pan
Editor
Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy
Self
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
Editor
Catch Me If You Can: Behind the Camera
Self
Catch Me If You Can
Editor
Minority Report
Editor
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Editor
Shrek
Thanks
The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
Self
Chicken Run
Thanks
Reindeer Games
Editor
The Haunting
Editor
Antz
Thanks
Saving Private Ryan
Editor
Amistad
Editor
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Editor
The Making of '1941'
Self
Twister
Editor
Casper
Editor
The Making of 'Jurassic Park'
Self
Schindler's List
Editor
Jurassic Park
Editor
Alive
Editor
Toy Soldiers
Editor
Hook
Editor