Michael Kahn
Profile info
Known forEditing
GenderMale
Birthday8 December 1930 (95 years old)
Place of birthNew York City, New York, USA
Known credits91
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 bo…
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2026 · Co-Producer
The Fabelmans
2022 · Editor
West Side Story
2021 · Editor
Ready Player One
2018 · Editor
The Post
2017 · Editor
Spielberg
2017 · Self
The BFG
2016 · Editor
A Case of the Cold War: Bridge of Spies
2016 · Self
Bridge of Spies
2015 · Editor
Seventh Son
2014 · Editor
The Bridge
2013 · Editor
Lincoln
2012 · Editor
War Horse
2011 · Editor
The Adventures of Tintin
2011 · Editor
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
2011 · Additional Editor
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
2010 · Editor
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
2008 · Editor
The Spiderwick Chronicles
2008 · Editor
10 Items or Less
2006 · Editor
Munich
2005 · Editor
Othello
2005 · Director
War of the Worlds
2005 · Editor
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
2004 · Editor
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
2004 · Self
The Terminal
2004 · Editor
Peter Pan
2003 · Editor
Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy
2003 · Self
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
2003 · Editor
Catch Me If You Can: Behind the Camera
2003 · Self
Catch Me If You Can
2002 · Editor
Minority Report
2002 · Editor
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
2001 · Editor
Shrek
2001 · Thanks
The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
2001 · Self
Chicken Run
2000 · Thanks
Reindeer Games
2000 · Editor
The Haunting
1999 · Editor
Antz
1998 · Thanks
Saving Private Ryan
1998 · Editor
Amistad
1997 · Editor
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
1997 · Editor
The Making of '1941'
1996 · Self
Twister
1996 · Editor
Casper
1995 · Editor
The Making of 'Jurassic Park'
1995 · Self
Schindler's List
1993 · Editor
Jurassic Park
1993 · Editor
Alive
1993 · Editor
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