Michael Kahn (born in New York, December 8, 1935) is a widely recognized film editor. His credits range from TV's Hogan's Heroes to feature films directed by George C. Scott (The Savage is Loose) and Steven Spielberg, with whom he has had an extended, notable collaboration over more than thirty years. He has won the Academy Award for Film Editing for three films done with Spielberg: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Schindler's List (1993) and Saving Private Ryan (1998). In addition, Kahn won the BAFTA Award for Best Editing for Fatal Attraction (directed by Adrian Lyne - 1988) as well as for Schindler's List.[1]
Kahn is a member of the American Cinema Editors (ACE).[2] He is one of the few editors who still edits on film (though he has edited digitally on projects not directed by Spielberg). Kahn acknowledged "People find it hard to believe that Steven and I still edit film on a Moviola and a KEM. [But] Steven feels that 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."[3] George Lucas remarked "Michael Kahn can cut faster on a Moviola than anybody can cut on an Avid."[4]
Kahn is an Eagle Scout.[citation needed]
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- ^ Kunkes, Michael (2006). "Munich, Mentoring & Moviolas: THE MICHAEL KAHN INTERVIEW," Editors Guild Magazine, Vol. 27, January-February 2006. Online version retrieved Dec. 29, 2007.
- ^ "American Cinema Editors > Members", webpage archived by WebCite from this original URL on 2008-03-04.
- ^ Ian Freer (May 2008). "The Indiana Jones Diaries". Empire. pp. 26.
- ^ Richard Corliss (2006-03-14). "A Conversation with George Lucas". Time. http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1173216,00.html. Retrieved 2008-10-30.
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