Michael Kahn Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography

Michael Kahn

Michael Kahn

Editing

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.

Filmography Movies

Acting

The Making of '1941' movie poster
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The Making of '1941'

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The Making of '1941'
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Catch Me If You Can: Behind the Camera movie poster
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Catch Me If You Can: Behind the Camera

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Catch Me If You Can: Behind the Camera
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The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' movie poster
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The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'

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The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
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Spielberg movie poster
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Spielberg

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Spielberg
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The Making of 'Jurassic Park' movie poster
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The Making of 'Jurassic Park'

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The Making of 'Jurassic Park'
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Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy movie poster
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Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy

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Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy
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A Case of the Cold War: Bridge of Spies movie poster
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A Case of the Cold War: Bridge of Spies

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A Case of the Cold War: Bridge of Spies
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The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing movie poster
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The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing

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The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
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Production

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade movie poster
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
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Raiders of the Lost Ark movie poster
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Raiders of the Lost Ark

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Raiders of the Lost Ark
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom movie poster
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
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War of the Worlds movie poster
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War of the Worlds

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War of the Worlds
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Minority Report movie poster
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Minority Report

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Minority Report
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull movie poster
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
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Jurassic Park movie poster
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Jurassic Park

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Jurassic Park
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The Lost World: Jurassic Park movie poster
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The Lost World: Jurassic Park

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The Lost World: Jurassic Park
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Schindler's List movie poster
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Schindler's List

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Schindler's List
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The Terminal movie poster
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The Terminal

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The Terminal
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Gallery

Michael Kahn portrait
Michael Kahn portrait
Michael Kahn portrait