Michael Kahn
- Known for
- Editing
- Born
- December 8, 1930 (age 95)
- Birthplace
- New York City, New York, USA
Biography
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.
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Filmography
The Fabelmans
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West Side Story
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Ready Player One
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The Post
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The BFG
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Bridge of Spies
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Seventh Son
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The Bridge
TV · Editor · 1 ep
Lincoln
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The Adventures of Tintin
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War Horse
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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
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Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
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The Spiderwick Chronicles
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10 Items or Less
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War of the Worlds
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Munich
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The Terminal
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Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
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Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
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Peter Pan
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Minority Report
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Catch Me If You Can
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence
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Reindeer Games
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The Haunting
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Saving Private Ryan
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The Lost World: Jurassic Park
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Amistad
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Twister
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Casper
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Jurassic Park
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Schindler's List
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Alive
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Hook
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Toy Soldiers
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Arachnophobia
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
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Always
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Arthur 2: On the Rocks
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Empire of the Sun
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Fatal Attraction
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Wisdom
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The Color Purple
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The Goonies
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
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Falling in Love
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Twilight Zone: The Movie
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Table for Five
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Poltergeist
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Raiders of the Lost Ark
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Used Cars
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1941
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Ice Castles
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Eyes of Laura Mars
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind
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The Return of a Man Called Horse
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Hot Potato
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The Zebra Force
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Eleanor and Franklin
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The Devil’s Rain
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The Ultimate Warrior
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Truck Turner
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Black Belt Jones
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The Savage Is Loose
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Golden Needles
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Buster and Billie
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Goodnight Jackie
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The Spook Who Sat by the Door
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Wild in the Sky
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Rage
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Trouble Man
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Touch Me
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Night Slaves
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The Activist
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Hogan's Heroes
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