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Michael Kahn
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 1…
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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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2026
Disclosure Day
Movie Co-Producer
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2022
The Fabelmans
Movie Editor
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2021
West Side Story
Movie Editor
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2018
Ready Player One
Movie Editor
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2017
The Post
Movie Editor
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2017
Spielberg
Movie Self
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2016
The BFG
Movie Editor
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2016
A Case of the Cold War: Bridge of Spies
Movie Self
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2015
Bridge of Spies
Movie Editor
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2014
Seventh Son
Movie Editor
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2013
The Bridge
TV show Editor
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2012
Lincoln
Movie Editor
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2011
War Horse
Movie Editor
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2011
The Adventures of Tintin
Movie Editor
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2011
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Movie Additional Editor
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2010
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Movie Editor
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2008
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Movie Editor
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2008
The Spiderwick Chronicles
Movie Editor
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2006
10 Items or Less
Movie Editor
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2005
Munich
Movie Editor
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2005
Othello
Movie Director
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2005
War of the Worlds
Movie Editor
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2004
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Movie Editor
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2004
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
Movie Self
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2004
The Terminal
Movie Editor
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2003
Peter Pan
Movie Editor
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2003
Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy
Movie Self
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2003
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
Movie Editor
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2003
Catch Me If You Can: Behind the Camera
Movie Self
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2002
Catch Me If You Can
Movie Editor
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2002
Minority Report
Movie Editor
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2001
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Movie Editor
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2001
Shrek
Movie Thanks
- 2001
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2000
Chicken Run
Movie Thanks
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2000
Reindeer Games
Movie Editor
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1999
The Haunting
Movie Editor
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1998
Antz
Movie Thanks
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1998
Saving Private Ryan
Movie Editor
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1997
Amistad
Movie Editor
