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Michael Kahn

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Michael Kahn

Born December 8, 1930 in New York City, New York, USA74 films

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.

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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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Schindler's List posterFirst watchSchindler's List19938.6The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.View film

Essential films

Ranked by acclaim and reach
Saving Private Ryan poster8.2Saving Private Ryan1998Jurassic Park poster8.0Jurassic Park1993Catch Me If You Can poster8.0Catch Me If You Can2002Raiders of the Lost Ark poster7.9Raiders of the Lost Ark1981Ready Player One poster7.6Ready Player One2018Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade poster7.9Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade1989Minority Report poster7.4Minority Report2002Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom poster7.3Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom1984

Filmography

74 films
  1. 2022The FabelmansEditor
  2. 2021West Side StoryEditor
  3. 2018Ready Player OneEditor
  4. 2017The PostEditor
  5. 2016The BFGEditor
  6. 2015Bridge of SpiesEditor
  7. 2014Seventh SonEditor
  8. 2012LincolnEditor
  9. 2011War HorseEditor
  10. 2011The Adventures of TintinEditor
  11. 2011Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger TidesAdditional Editor
  12. 2010Prince of Persia: The Sands of TimeEditor
  13. 2008Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal SkullEditor
  14. 2008The Spiderwick ChroniclesEditor
  15. 200610 Items or LessEditor
  16. 2005MunichEditor
  17. 2005War of the WorldsEditor
  18. 2004Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate EventsEditor
  19. 2004The TerminalEditor
  20. 2003Peter PanEditor
  21. 2003Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of LifeEditor
  22. 2002Catch Me If You CanEditor
  23. 2002Minority ReportEditor
  24. 2001A.I. Artificial IntelligenceEditor
  25. 2000Reindeer GamesEditor
  26. 1999The HauntingEditor
  27. 1998Saving Private RyanEditor
  28. 1997AmistadEditor
  29. 1997The Lost World: Jurassic ParkEditor
  30. 1996TwisterEditor
  31. 1995CasperEditor
  32. 1993Schindler's ListEditor
  33. 1993Jurassic ParkEditor
  34. 1993AliveEditor
  35. 1991Toy SoldiersEditor
  36. 1991HookEditor
  37. 1990ArachnophobiaEditor
  38. 1989AlwaysEditor
  39. 1989Indiana Jones and the Last CrusadeEditor
  40. 1988Arthur 2: On the RocksEditor
  41. 1987Empire of the SunEditor
  42. 1987Fatal AttractionEditor
  43. 1986WisdomEditor
  44. 1985The Color PurpleEditor
  45. 1985The GooniesEditor
  46. 1984Falling in LoveEditor
  47. 1984Indiana Jones and the Temple of DoomEditor
  48. 1983Twilight Zone: The MovieEditor
  49. 1983Table for FiveEditor
  50. 1982PoltergeistEditor
  51. 1981Raiders of the Lost ArkEditor
  52. 1980Used CarsEditor
  53. 19791941Editor
  54. 1978Ice CastlesEditor
  55. 1978Eyes of Laura MarsEditor
  56. 1977Close Encounters of the Third KindEditor
  57. 1976The Return of a Man Called HorseEditor
  58. 1976The Zebra ForceEditor
  59. 1976Hot PotatoAdditional Editor
  60. 1975The Ultimate WarriorEditor
  61. 1975The Devil’s RainEditor
  62. 1974The Savage Is LooseEditor
  63. 1974Buster and BillieEditor
  64. 1974Golden NeedlesEditor
  65. 1974Truck TurnerEditor
  66. 1974Goodnight JackieEditor
  67. 1974Black Belt JonesEditor
  68. 1973The Spook Who Sat by the DoorEditor
  69. 1972RageEditor
  70. 1972Trouble ManEditor
  71. 1972Wild in the SkyEditor
  72. 1971Touch MeEditor
  73. 1970Night SlavesEditor
  74. 1969The ActivistEditor