Michael Kahn
Editing
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
Editing77
movieThe Fabelmans
2022
Editor
movieWest Side Story
2021
Editor
movieThe Post
2017
Editor
movieThe BFG
2016
Editor
movieBridge of Spies
2015
Editor
movieSeventh Son
2014
Editor
tvThe Bridge
2013
Editor
movieLincoln
2012
Editor
movieWar Horse
2011
Editor
moviePirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
2011
Additional Editor
movieMunich
2005
Editor
movieThe Terminal
2004
Editor
moviePeter Pan
2003
Editor
movieMinority Report
2002
Editor
movieReindeer Games
2000
Editor
movieThe Haunting
1999
Editor
movieAmistad
1997
Editor
movieTwister
1996
Editor
movieCasper
1995
Editor
movieJurassic Park
1993
Editor
movieAlive
1993
Editor
movieToy Soldiers
1991
Editor
movieHook
1991
Editor
movieArachnophobia
1990
Editor
movieAlways
1989
Editor
movieWisdom
1986
Editor
movieThe Goonies
1985
Editor
movieFalling in Love
1984
Editor
movieTable for Five
1983
Editor
moviePoltergeist
1982
Editor
movieUsed Cars
1980
Editor
movie1941
1979
Editor
movieIce Castles
1978
Editor
movieThe Zebra Force
1976
Editor
movieHot Potato
1976
Additional Editor
movieGolden Needles
1974
Editor
movieTruck Turner
1974
Editor
movieRage
1972
Editor
movieTrouble Man
1972
Editor
movieWild in the Sky
1972
Editor
movieTouch Me
1971
Editor
movieNight Slaves
1970
Editor
movieThe Activist
1969
Editor
tvHogan's Heroes
1965
Editor
Acting8
Crew3
Directing2
movieOthello
2005
Director
movieBeyond the Horizon
1975
Director
Production1
movieDisclosure Day
2026
Co-Producer