Michael Kahn
A winner of multiple Academy Awards, celebrated film editor Michael Kahn became best known for his long standing partnership with filmmaker Steven Spielberg. After cutting his teeth in television editing the popular WWII sitcom "Hogan's Heroes" (CBS, 1965-1971) and a slew of B-movie quickies like "Black Belt Jones" (1974), Kahn picked up an Emmy Award for his work on the miniseries "Eleanor and Franklin" (ABC, 1976). "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (1977), his first collaborative effort with a young Spielberg, portended things to come and soon led to Kahn's first Oscar win for the swashbuckling adventure classic, "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981). His prowess on films as thematically and visually distinct as Adrian Lyne's polarizing psycho-thriller "Fatal Attraction" (1987) and Spielberg's WWII drama "Empire of the Sun" (1987) each earned Kahn an Oscar nomination that same year. Second and third Academy statuettes were picked up by the editor for a pair of WWII-centric masterpieces - the harrowing "Schindler's List" (1993) and the visceral "Saving Private Ryan" (1998), respectively. Alongside Spielberg, he continued to work at the forefront of technology and craft in films as diverse as "The Adventures of Tintin" (2011) and the presidential biopic "Lincoln" (2012). Although one of the most Oscar-nominated film editors in history, the prolific and seemingly tireless Kahn showed no signs of slowing, some 50-plus years into his astonishing career.
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Michael Kahn
Filmography
Movies
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91% |
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West Side Story | Film Editing | $38.5M | 2021 |
71% |
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Ready Player One | Film Editing | $137.0M | 2018 |
88% |
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The Post | Film Editing | $81.4M | 2017 |
74% |
|
The BFG | Film Editing | $55.5M | 2016 |
91% |
|
Bridge of Spies | Film Editing | $72.3M | 2015 |
12% |
|
Seventh Son | Film Editing | $17.2M | 2014 |
90% |
|
Lincoln | Film Editing | $182.2M | 2012 |
74% |
|
War Horse | Film Editing | $79.9M | 2011 |
75% |
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The Adventures of Tintin | Film Editing | $77.6M | 2011 |
32% |
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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides | Film Editing | $241.1M | 2011 |
No Score Yet |
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The Adventures of Tintin | Film Editing | - | 2011 |
37% |
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Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time | Film Editing | $90.8M | 2010 |
77% |
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull | Film Editing | $317.0M | 2008 |
81% |
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The Spiderwick Chronicles | Film Editing | $71.1M | 2008 |
64% |
|
10 Items or Less | Film Editor | $81.4K | 2006 |
78% |
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Munich | Film Editing | $47.4M | 2005 |
76% |
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War of the Worlds | Film Editing | $234.3M | 2005 |
61% |
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The Terminal | Film Editing | $77.0M | 2004 |
77% |
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Peter Pan | Film Editing | $48.4M | 2003 |
24% |
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Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life | Film Editing | $65.7M | 2003 |
96% |
|
Catch Me if You Can | Film Editing | $164.4M | 2002 |
89% |
|
Minority Report | Film Editing | $132.0M | 2002 |
76% |
|
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence | Film Editing | $78.6M | 2001 |
25% |
|
Reindeer Games | Film Editing | $23.4M | 2000 |
17% |
|
The Haunting | Film Editing | $91.2M | 1999 |
94% |
|
Saving Private Ryan | Film Editing | - | 1998 |
78% |
|
Amistad | Film Editing | - | 1997 |
53% |
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The Lost World: Jurassic Park | Film Editing | $229.1M | 1997 |
66% |
|
Twister | Film Editing | $241.7M | 1996 |
52% |
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Casper | Film Editor | $100.3M | 1995 |
62% |
|
Alive | Film Editing | $36.3M | 1993 |
98% |
|
Schindler's List | Film Editing | $96.6M | 1993 |
91% |
|
Jurassic Park | Film Editing | $415.3M | 1993 |
29% |
|
Hook | Film Editing | $116.3M | 1991 |
93% |
|
Arachnophobia | Film Editing | $53.2M | 1990 |
70% |
|
Always | Film Editing | - | 1989 |
84% |
|
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | Film Editing | $195.1M | 1989 |
74% |
|
Fatal Attraction | Film Editing | $154.0M | 1987 |
77% |
|
Empire of the Sun | Film Editing | $22.0M | 1987 |
No Score Yet |
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Wisdom | Film Editing | $5.7M | 1986 |
73% |
|
The Color Purple | Film Editing | $93.4M | 1985 |
77% |
|
The Goonies | Film Editing | $935.0K | 1985 |
54% |
|
Falling in Love | Film Editing | - | 1984 |
77% |
|
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | Film Editing | - | 1984 |
59% |
|
Twilight Zone: The Movie | Film Editing | - | 1983 |
88% |
|
Poltergeist | Film Editing | $121.8M | 1982 |
93% |
|
Raiders of the Lost Ark | Film Editing | $248.2M | 1981 |
39% |
|
1941 |
Associate Producer, Film Editing |
- | 1979 |
44% |
|
Ice Castles | Film Editing | - | 1979 |
61% |
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Eyes of Laura Mars | Film Editing | - | 1978 |
90% |
|
Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Film Editing | $3.1M | 1977 |
33% |
|
The Ultimate Warrior | Film Editing | - | 1975 |
17% |
|
The Devil's Rain | Film Editing | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet |
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Golden Needles | Film Editing | - | 1974 |
60% |
|
Truck Turner | Film Editing | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet |
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Buster and Billie | Film Editing | - | 1974 |