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.

Crew

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

(Editor)

Raiders of the Lost Ark

(Editor)

War of the Worlds

(Editor)

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

(Editor)

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

(Editor)

Minority Report

(Editor)

The Lost World: Jurassic Park

(Editor)

Jurassic Park

(Editor)

Schindler's List

(Editor)

The Terminal

(Editor)

Poltergeist

(Editor)

Munich

(Editor)

Catch Me If You Can

(Editor)

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

(Editor)

Twister

(Editor)

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

(Editor)

Saving Private Ryan

(Editor)

The Color Purple

(Editor)

Hook

(Editor)

Toy Soldiers

(Editor)

Empire of the Sun

(Editor)

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life

(Editor)

Reindeer Games

(Editor)

Peter Pan

(Editor)

Fatal Attraction

(Editor)

Always

(Editor)

1941

(Editor)

Arachnophobia

(Editor)

Amistad

(Editor)

The Haunting

(Editor)

Alive

(Editor)

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

(Editor)

The Goonies

(Editor)

Casper

(Editor)

The Return of a Man Called Horse

(Editor)

The Adventures of Tintin

(Editor)

Lincoln

(Editor)

War Horse

(Editor)

The Fabelmans

(Editor)

Wisdom

(Editor)

Beyond the Horizon

(Director)

Wild in the Sky

(Editor)

Twilight Zone: The Movie

(Editor)

Ice Castles

(Editor)

Used Cars

(Editor)

Truck Turner

(Editor)

10 Items or Less

(Editor)

The Spiderwick Chronicles

(Editor)

Bridge of Spies

(Editor)

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

(Editor)

The BFG

(Editor)

Black Belt Jones

(Editor)

Shrek

(Thanks)

Antz

(Thanks)

The Devil's Rain

(Editor)

Ready Player One

(Editor)

The Savage Is Loose

(Editor)

Rage

(Editor)

Touch Me

(Editor)

Eyes of Laura Mars

(Editor)

The Spook Who Sat by the Door

(Editor)

The Ultimate Warrior

(Editor)

Trouble Man

(Editor)

The Post

(Editor)

Chicken Run

(Thanks)

Arthur 2: On the Rocks

(Editor)

Seventh Son

(Editor)

The Activist

(Editor)

Falling in Love

(Editor)

Hot Potato

(Additional Editor)

Table for Five

(Editor)

Golden Needles

(Editor)

Buster and Billie

(Editor)

Zebra Force

(Editor)

Night Slaves

(Editor)

In a Heartbeat

(Editor)

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

(Additional Editor)

Goodnight Jackie

(Editor)

West Side Story

(Editor)

Eleanor and Franklin

(Editor)

Hogan's Heroes

(Editor)