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.
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Films (87)
La Révélation
2026 · Co-Producer
Les Fabelman
2022 · Editor
Amor Sin Barreras
2021 · Editor
Player One
2018 · Editor
Pentagon Papers
2017 · Editor
Spielberg
2017 · Self
Le BGG : Le Bon Gros Géant
2016 · Editor
A Case of the Cold War: Bridge of Spies
2016 · Self
Le Pont des espions
2015 · Editor
Le Septième Fils
2014 · Editor
Lincoln
2012 · Editor
Cheval de guerre
2011 · Editor
Les Aventures de Tintin : Le Secret de la licorne
2011 · Editor
Pirates des Caraïbes : La Fontaine de jouvence
2011 · Additional Editor
Prince of Persia : Les Sables du temps
2010 · Editor
Indiana Jones et le royaume du crâne de cristal
2008 · Editor
Les chroniques de Spiderwick
2008 · Editor
Une Star dans ma vie
2006 · Editor
Munich
2005 · Editor
Othello
2005 · Director
La Guerre des mondes
2005 · Editor
Les Désastreuses Aventures des orphelins Baudelaire
2004 · Editor
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
2004 · Self
Le Terminal
2004 · Editor
Peter Pan
2003 · Editor
Indiana Jones : Naissance d'une Trilogie
2003 · Self
Lara Croft : Tomb Raider, le berceau de la vie
2003 · Editor
Catch Me If You Can: Behind the Camera
2003 · Self
Arrête-moi si tu peux
2002 · Editor
Rapport minoritaire
2002 · Editor
A.I. Intelligence artificielle
2001 · Editor
Shrek
2001 · Thanks
The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
2001 · Self
Poulets en fuite
2000 · Thanks
Piège fatal
2000 · Editor
Hantise
1999 · Editor
Fourmiz
1998 · Thanks
Il faut sauver le soldat Ryan
1998 · Editor
Amistad
1997 · Editor
Le monde perdu : Jurassic Park
1997 · Editor
The Making of '1941'
1996 · Self
Tornade
1996 · Editor
Casper
1995 · Editor
Asi Se Hizo "Jurassic Park"
1995 · Self
La Liste de Schindler
1993 · Editor
Le parc jurassique
1993 · Editor
Les Survivants
1993 · Editor
L'école des héros
1991 · Editor
Hook ou la Revanche du capitaine Crochet
1991 · Editor
Arachnophobie
1990 · Editor
Always
1989 · Editor
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1989 · Editor
Arthur 2: On the Rocks
1988 · Editor
Empire of the Sun
1987 · Editor
Fatal Attraction
1987 · Editor
Wisdom
1986 · Editor
The Color Purple
1985 · Editor
The Goonies
1985 · Editor
Falling in Love
1984 · Editor
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
1984 · Editor
Twilight Zone: The Movie
1983 · Editor
Table for Five
1983 · Editor
Poltergeist
1982 · Editor
Raiders of the Lost Ark
1981 · Editor
Used Cars
1980 · Editor
1941
1979 · Editor
Ice Castles
1978 · Editor
Eyes of Laura Mars
1978 · Editor
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977 · Editor
The Return of a Man Called Horse
1976 · Editor
The Zebra Force
1976 · Editor
Hot Potato
1976 · Additional Editor
The Ultimate Warrior
1975 · Editor
Beyond the Horizon
1975 · Director
The Devil’s Rain
1975 · Editor
The Savage Is Loose
1974 · Editor
Buster and Billie
1974 · Editor
Golden Needles
1974 · Editor
Truck Turner
1974 · Editor
Goodnight Jackie
1974 · Editor
Black Belt Jones
1974 · Editor
The Spook Who Sat by the Door
1973 · Editor
Rage
1972 · Editor
Trouble Man
1972 · Editor
Wild in the Sky
1972 · Editor
Night Slaves
1970 · Editor
The Activist
1969 · Editor
