Michael Kahn

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 Spielbergs subsequent films except for ET the ExtraTerrestrial 1982 which was edited by Carol Littleton Kahn has received eight Academy Award nominations for Best Film Editing and has won three timesfor Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 Schindlers List 1993 and Saving Private Ryan 1998 which were all Spielbergdirected 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 Spielbergs films on an Avid machine Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Kahn film editor licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia