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Michael Kahn
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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.
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Disclosure Day
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Ready Player One
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence
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Schindler's List
Editor
The Adventures of Tintin
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Empire of the Sun
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War Horse
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Saving Private Ryan
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Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.
Game On: Cinematic Journeys Through Digital Worlds
From arcade nostalgia to virtual reality epics, these films explore the thrill and terror of living inside the game.
8 films
Loyalty Beyond the Last Breath
From the Alaskan wilds to the trenches of war, a journey through films where the bond between soldier and dog faces the ultimate test.
8 films
Wild Hearts: Feral Children and the Call of the Wild
From the forests of 18th-century France to the animated jungles of Mowgli, a journey through cinema's feral children and their quest for belonging.
7 films
It was Miss Scarlet, in the cinema...
Celebrating Lesley Ann Warren's 80th birthday with a journey through board game adaptations, from the witty whodunit of Clue to the explosive naval warfare of B...
8 films
The Weight of the Cape: Inheriting a Legacy You Never Asked For
Before the multiverse had a use for her, Kara Zor-El's first outing wasn't framed as destiny, it was framed as a mistake to fix. She loses the Omegahedron, the...
8 films
When Worlds Collide: The Magic of Live-Action Animation
From Disney's pioneering blend to modern masterpieces, explore films that seamlessly merge reality and animation, celebrating the creative spark when two worlds...
8 films
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The Fabelmans
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2021
Ready Player One
2018
The Post
2017
The BFG
2016
Bridge of Spies
2015
Lincoln
2012
War Horse
2011
The Adventures of Tintin
2011
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
2008
The Spiderwick Chronicles
2008
Munich
2005
War of the Worlds
2005
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
2004
The Terminal
2004
Peter Pan
2003
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
2003
Catch Me If You Can
2002
Minority Report
2002
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
2001
Reindeer Games
2000
The Haunting
1999
Saving Private Ryan
1998
Amistad
1997
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
1997
Twister
1996
Casper
1995
Schindler's List
1993
Jurassic Park
1993
Hook
1991
Arachnophobia
1990
Always
1989
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1989
Empire of the Sun
1987
Fatal Attraction
1987
The Color Purple
1985
The Goonies
1985
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
1984
Twilight Zone: The Movie
1983
Poltergeist
1982
Raiders of the Lost Ark
1981
1941
1979
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977