Michael Kahn is an acclaimed American film editor known for his collaborations with Steven Spielberg. He has received six BAFTA nominations for Best Editing, winning two for Schindler's List and Fatal Attraction. Kahn began his career in television but found great success in film in the 1970s when Spielberg sought him out to edit Close Encounters of the Third Kind. He would go on to edit many major Spielberg films including Jurassic Park, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List, and E.T., winning Oscars for Best Film Editing for Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan. Known for his mastery of editing techniques and ability to craft compelling narratives, Kahn continues to

1. Job Profiling.
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2. Michael Kahn- Background
• Michael Kahn was born on December 8, 1935 in New York City, New York, USA.
He is an editor, known for Minority Report (2002), Jurassic Park (1993) and Saving
Private Ryan (1998)
• He has received six BAFTA nominations for Best Editing, winning two
for Schindler's List and Fatal Attraction.
• Kahn was born in New York City. He continued to edit on film until around 2011,
significantly longer than most other professional film editors. 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." Since The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the
Unicorn, Kahn has edited Spielberg's films on an Avid machine, though he has
edited digitally before for projects like Twister.

3. Michael Kahn- success
• By 1977, Michael Kahn was already having great success in the film
industry when a young director named Steven Spielberg, fresh off the
success of Jaws, came looking for an editor to cut together his sci-fi epic
Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Kahn once remarked that cutting his
teeth in the fast-paced environment of television set him up perfectly to
work with Spielberg, who works quickly and captures a wide range of
coverage.
• Kahn edited two films during this era that would give him legendary status
within the editing community: 1993’s Schindler’s List and 1998’s Saving
Private Ryan. Because of his ability to effectively craft a story and master
the techniques of editing, Kahn would be awarded two more Oscars for
both films. In the video below, Kahn talks about the process of editing the
opening scene from Saving Private Ryan.

4. Michael Kahn-
Films
• After editing some of the
most revered films of the
1980s, like Poltergeist,
Indiana Jones and the
Temple of Doom, The
Goonies and Indiana Jones
and the Last Crusade,
Kahn would have an
amazing run over the next
ten years. Starting with
1991’s Hook, directed by
Steven Spielberg, Kahn
would edit Jurassic Park,
Twister, The Lost World:
Jurassic Park, and The
Haunting.
2003
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of
Life
Peter Pan
2004
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate
Events
The Terminal
2005
War of the Worlds
Munich
2006 10 Items or Less
2008
The Spiderwick Chronicles
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the
Crystal Skull
2010 Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
2011
The Adventures of Tintin
War Horse
2012 Lincoln
2015 Bridge of Spies
2016 The BFG
2017 Ready Player One
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