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

• 2026Disclosure Day — Co-Producer
• 2022The Fabelmans — Editor
• 2021West Side Story — Editor
• 2018Ready Player One — Editor
• 2017The Post — Editor
• 2016The BFG — Editor
• 2015Bridge of Spies — Editor
• 2014Seventh Son — Editor
• The Bridge — Editor
• 2012Lincoln — Editor
• 2011Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides — Additional Editor
• 2011The Adventures of Tintin — Editor
• 2011War Horse — Editor
• 2010Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time — Editor
• 2008Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull — Editor
• 2008The Spiderwick Chronicles — Editor
• 200610 Items or Less — Editor
• 2005Munich — Editor
• 2005Othello — Director
• 2005War of the Worlds — Editor
• 2004Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events — Editor
• 2004The Terminal — Editor
• 2003Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life — Editor
• 2003Peter Pan — Editor
• 2002Catch Me If You Can — Editor
• 2002Minority Report — Editor
• 2001A.I. Artificial Intelligence — Editor
• 2001Shrek — Thanks
• 2000Chicken Run — Thanks
• 2000Reindeer Games — Editor
• 1999The Haunting — Editor
• 1998Antz — Thanks
• 1998Saving Private Ryan — Editor
• 1997Amistad — Editor
• 1997The Lost World: Jurassic Park — Editor
• 1996Twister — Editor
• 1995Casper — Editor
• 1993Alive — Editor
• 1993Jurassic Park — Editor
• 1993Schindler's List — Editor
• 1991Hook — Editor
• 1991Toy Soldiers — Editor
• 1990Arachnophobia — Editor
• 1989Always — Editor
• 1989Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade — Editor
• 1988Arthur 2: On the Rocks — Editor
• 1987Empire of the Sun — Editor
• 1987Fatal Attraction — Editor
• 1986Wisdom — Editor
• 1985The Color Purple — Editor
• 1985The Goonies — Editor
• 1984Falling in Love — Editor
• 1984Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom — Editor
• 1983Table for Five — Editor
• 1983Twilight Zone: The Movie — Editor
• 1982Poltergeist — Editor
• 1981Raiders of the Lost Ark — Editor
• 1980Used Cars — Editor
• 19791941 — Editor
• 1978Eyes of Laura Mars — Editor
• 1978Ice Castles — Editor
• 1977Close Encounters of the Third Kind — Editor
• Eleanor and Franklin — Editor
• 1976Hot Potato — Additional Editor
• 1976The Return of a Man Called Horse — Editor
• 1976The Zebra Force — Editor
• 1975Beyond the Horizon — Director
• 1975The Devil’s Rain — Editor
• 1975The Ultimate Warrior — Editor
• 1974Black Belt Jones — Editor
• 1974Buster and Billie — Editor
• 1974Golden Needles — Editor
• 1974Goodnight Jackie — Editor
• 1974The Savage Is Loose — Editor
• 1974Truck Turner — Editor
• 1973The Spook Who Sat by the Door — Editor
• 1972Rage — Editor
• 1972Trouble Man — Editor
• 1972Wild in the Sky — Editor
• 1971Touch Me — Editor
• 1970Night Slaves — Editor
• 1969The Activist — Editor
• Hogan's Heroes — Editor

Appearances as themselves (8)

• 2017Spielberg — Self
• 2016A Case of the Cold War: Bridge of Spies — Self
• 2004The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing — Self
• 2003Catch Me If You Can: Behind the Camera — Self
• 2003Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy — Self
• 2001The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' — Self
• 1996The Making of '1941' — Self
• 1995The Making of 'Jurassic Park' — Self