Michael Kahn
Editing
1930-12-08 · 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.
Filmography
Disclosure Day
2026 · Movie
The Fabelmans
2022 · Movie
West Side Story
2021 · Movie
Ready Player One
2018 · Movie
The Post
2017 · Movie
Spielberg
2017 · Movie
The BFG
2016 · Movie
A Case of the Cold War: Bridge of Spies
2016 · Movie
Bridge of Spies
2015 · Movie
Seventh Son
2014 · Movie
The Bridge
2013 · Series
Lincoln
2012 · Movie
War Horse
2011 · Movie
The Adventures of Tintin
2011 · Movie
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
2011 · Movie
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
2010 · Movie
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
2008 · Movie
The Spiderwick Chronicles
2008 · Movie
10 Items or Less
2006 · Movie
Munich
2005 · Movie
Othello
2005 · Movie
War of the Worlds
2005 · Movie
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
2004 · Movie
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
2004 · Movie
The Terminal
2004 · Movie
Peter Pan
2003 · Movie
Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy
2003 · Movie
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
2003 · Movie
Catch Me If You Can: Behind the Camera
2003 · Movie
Catch Me If You Can
2002 · Movie
Minority Report
2002 · Movie
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
2001 · Movie
Shrek
2001 · Movie
The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
2001 · Movie
Chicken Run
2000 · Movie
Reindeer Games
2000 · Movie
The Haunting
1999 · Movie
Antz
1998 · Movie
Saving Private Ryan
1998 · Movie
Amistad
1997 · Movie
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
1997 · Movie
The Making of '1941'
1996 · Movie
Twister
1996 · Movie
Casper
1995 · Movie
The Making of 'Jurassic Park'
1995 · Movie
Schindler's List
1993 · Movie
Jurassic Park
1993 · Movie
Alive
1993 · Movie
Toy Soldiers
1991 · Movie
Hook
1991 · Movie
Arachnophobia
1990 · Movie
Always
1989 · Movie
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1989 · Movie
Arthur 2: On the Rocks
1988 · Movie
Empire of the Sun
1987 · Movie
Fatal Attraction
1987 · Movie
Wisdom
1986 · Movie
The Color Purple
1985 · Movie
The Goonies
1985 · Movie
Falling in Love
1984 · Movie
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
1984 · Movie
Twilight Zone: The Movie
1983 · Movie
Table for Five
1983 · Movie
Poltergeist
1982 · Movie
Raiders of the Lost Ark
1981 · Movie
Used Cars
1980 · Movie
1941
1979 · Movie
Ice Castles
1978 · Movie
Eyes of Laura Mars
1978 · Movie
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977 · Movie
The Return of a Man Called Horse
1976 · Movie
The Zebra Force
1976 · Movie
Hot Potato
1976 · Movie
Eleanor and Franklin
1976 · Series
The Ultimate Warrior
1975 · Movie
Beyond the Horizon
1975 · Movie
The Devil’s Rain
1975 · Movie
The Savage Is Loose
1974 · Movie
Buster and Billie
1974 · Movie
Golden Needles
1974 · Movie
Truck Turner
1974 · Movie
Goodnight Jackie
1974 · Movie
Black Belt Jones
1974 · Movie
The Spook Who Sat by the Door
1973 · Movie
Rage
1972 · Movie
Trouble Man
1972 · Movie
Wild in the Sky
1972 · Movie
Touch Me
1971 · Movie
Night Slaves
1970 · Movie
The Activist
1969 · Movie
Hogan's Heroes
1965 · Series