Editing
Michael Kahn
EN cinema · 88 credits
Born
8 December 1930 (age 95)
Birthplace
New York City, New York, USA
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
Spielberg
as Self
The Post
Editor
The BFG
Editor
Seventh Son
Editor
Lincoln
Editor
War Horse
Editor
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Additional Editor
Munich
Editor
Othello
Director
The Terminal
Editor
Peter Pan
Editor
Shrek
Thanks
Chicken Run
Thanks
The Haunting
Editor
Antz
Thanks
Amistad
Editor
Twister
Editor
Casper
Editor
Alive
Editor
Toy Soldiers
Editor
Hook
Editor
Always
Editor
Wisdom
Editor
The Goonies
Editor
Poltergeist
Editor
Used Cars
Editor
1941
Editor
Ice Castles
Editor
Hot Potato
Additional Editor
Beyond the Horizon
Director
Truck Turner
Editor
Rage
Editor
Trouble Man
Editor
Touch Me
Editor
Night Slaves
Editor