Michael Kahn
Known for: Editing
Born: December 8, 1930
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
88 movies · 3 TV shows, newest first
7.5
Disclosure Day
2026
7.6
The Fabelmans
2022
6.9
West Side Story
2021
7.6
Ready Player One
2018
7.0
The Post
2017
7.5
Spielberg
2017
6.3
The BFG
2016
NR
A Case of the Cold War: Bridge of Spies
2016
7.2
Bridge of Spies
2015
5.5
Seventh Son
2014
6.7
The Bridge
2013
6.8
Lincoln
2012
7.3
War Horse
2011
6.9
The Adventures of Tintin
2011
6.6
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
2011
6.3
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
2010
6.0
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
2008
6.7
The Spiderwick Chronicles
2008
6.2
10 Items or Less
2006
7.1
Munich
2005
9.0
Othello
2005
6.6
War of the Worlds
2005
6.8
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
2004
7.0
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
2004
7.4
The Terminal
2004
7.1
Peter Pan
2003
7.9
Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy
2003
5.8
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
2003
7.9
Catch Me If You Can: Behind the Camera
2003
8.0
Catch Me If You Can
2002
7.4
Minority Report
2002
7.1
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
2001
7.8
Shrek
2001
7.1
The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
2001
6.9
Chicken Run
2000
5.7
Reindeer Games
2000
5.5
The Haunting
1999
6.2
Antz
1998
8.2
Saving Private Ryan
1998
7.0
Amistad
1997
6.6
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
1997
6.7
The Making of '1941'
1996
6.6
Twister
1996
6.3
Casper
1995
7.3
The Making of 'Jurassic Park'
1995
8.6
Schindler's List
1993
8.0
Jurassic Park
1993
6.9
Alive
1993
6.5
Toy Soldiers
1991
6.8
Hook
1991
6.5
Arachnophobia
1990
6.2
Always
1989
7.9
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1989
5.5
Arthur 2: On the Rocks
1988
7.5
Empire of the Sun
1987
6.8
Fatal Attraction
1987
6.1
Wisdom
1986
7.7
The Color Purple
1985
7.5
The Goonies
1985
6.7
Falling in Love
1984
7.3
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
1984
6.5
Twilight Zone: The Movie
1983
5.7
Table for Five
1983
7.2
Poltergeist
1982
7.9
Raiders of the Lost Ark
1981
6.4
Used Cars
1980
5.8
1941
1979
7.4
Ice Castles
1978
5.8
Eyes of Laura Mars
1978
7.4
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977
5.7
The Return of a Man Called Horse
1976
5.6
The Zebra Force
1976
4.1
Hot Potato
1976
3.8
Eleanor and Franklin
1976
5.8
The Ultimate Warrior
1975
10.0
Beyond the Horizon
1975
5.0
The Devil’s Rain
1975
5.0
The Savage Is Loose
1974
6.7
Buster and Billie
1974
5.3
Golden Needles
1974
6.5
Truck Turner
1974NR
Goodnight Jackie
1974
6.0
Black Belt Jones
1974
6.4
The Spook Who Sat by the Door
1973
6.7
Rage
1972
6.3
Trouble Man
1972
8.0
Wild in the Sky
1972
6.0
Touch Me
1971
5.9
Night Slaves
1970
10.0
The Activist
1969
7.6
Hogan's Heroes
1965