Life and career

Kahn was born in New York. 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. 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." George Lucas remarked "Michael Kahn can cut faster on a Moviola than anybody can cut on an Avid." The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn became the first film Kahn edited digitally using Avid for Spielberg, though he has edited digitally before for projects like Twister.

Awards

Kahn is the most-nominated editor in Academy Awards history with eight nominations. In addition Kahn holds the record for the most wins (three) in the category of the Academy Awards for Best Film Editing, tied with Thelma Schoonmaker, Daniel Mandell, and Ralph Dawson. All of the films for which he won Oscars were directed by Steven Spielberg: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Schindler's List (1993), and Saving Private Ryan (1998).

He has also received six BAFTA nominations for Best Editing, winning two for Schindler's List and Fatal Attraction.

Kahn has been selected for membership in the American Cinema Editors (ACE). In 2011, he received the Career Achievement Award of the American Cinema Editors. At the ceremony, Steven Spielberg said of editing: "this is where filmmaking goes from a craft to an art."

Filmography

Year	Title	Director	Notes
1969	The Activist	Art Napoleon
1971	Touch Me	Anthony Spinelli
1972	Wild in the Sky	William T. Naud
	Trouble Man	Ivan Dixon
	Rage	George C. Scott
1973	The Spook Who Sat by the Door	Ivan Dixon
1974	Black Belt Jones	Robert Clouse
	Truck Turner	Jonathan Kaplan
	Golden Needles	Robert Clouse
	Buster and Billie	Daniel Petrie
		Sidney Sheldon
	The Savage Is Loose	George C. Scott
1975	The Devil's Rain	Robert Fuest
	The Ultimate Warrior	Robert Clouse
1976	The Return of a Man Called Horse	Irvin Kershner
1977	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	Steven Spielberg	Nominated—Academy Award for Best Film Editing Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Editing
1978	Eyes of Laura Mars	Irvin Kershner
	Ice Castles	Donald Wrye
1979	1941	Steven Spielberg
1980	Used Cars	Robert Zemeckis
1981	Raiders of the Lost Ark	Steven Spielberg	Academy Award for Best Film Editing ACE Eddie for Best Edited Feature Film - Dramatic Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Editing
1982	Poltergeist	Tobe Hooper
1983	Table for Five	Robert Lieberman
1984	Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom	Steven Spielberg	Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Editing
	Falling in Love	Ulu Grosbard
1985	The Goonies	Richard Donner
	The Color Purple	Steven Spielberg
1986	Wisdom	Emilio Estevez
1987	Fatal Attraction	Adrian Lyne	BAFTA Award for Best Editing Nominated—Academy Award for Best Film Editing Nominated—ACE Eddie for Best Edited Feature Film - Dramatic
	Empire of the Sun	Steven Spielberg	Nominated—Academy Award for Best Film Editing
1988	Arthur 2: On the Rocks	Bud Yorkin
1989	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade	Steven Spielberg
	Always
1990	Arachnophobia	Frank Marshall
1991	Toy Soldiers	Daniel Petrie, Jr.
	Hook	Steven Spielberg
1993	Alive	Frank Marshall
	Jurassic Park	Steven Spielberg
	Schindler's List		Academy Award for Best Film Editing ACE Eddie for Best Edited Feature Film - Dramatic BAFTA Award for Best Editing
1995	Casper	Brad Silberling
1996	Twister	Jan de Bont
1997	The Lost World: Jurassic Park	Steven Spielberg
	Amistad		Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Editing
1998	Saving Private Ryan		Academy Award for Best Film Editing ACE Eddie for Best Edited Feature Film - Dramatic Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Editing Satellite Award for Best Editing Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Editing
1999	The Haunting	Jan de Bont
2000	Reindeer Games	John Frankenheimer
2001	A.I. Artificial Intelligence	Steven Spielberg
2002	Minority Report
	Catch Me If You Can
2003	Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life	Jan de Bont
	Peter Pan	P. J. Hogan
2004	Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events	Brad Silberling
	The Terminal	Steven Spielberg
2005	War of the Worlds		Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Editing
	Munich		Nominated—Academy Award for Best Film Editing Nominated—ACE Eddie for Best Edited Feature Film - Dramatic Nominated—Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Editing
2006	10 Items or Less	Brad Silberling
2008	The Spiderwick Chronicles	Mark Waters
	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull	Steven Spielberg
2010	Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time	Mike Newell	with Mick Audsley and Martin Walsh
2011	The Adventures of Tintin	Steven Spielberg	Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Editing
	War Horse		Nominated—ACE Eddie for Best Edited Feature Film - Dramatic Nominated—Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Editing Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Editing
2012	Lincoln		Nominated—Academy Award for Best Film Editing Nominated—Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Editing Nominated—International Online Film Critics' Poll Award for Best Editing
2015	Bridge of Spies		Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Editing Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Editing
2016	The BFG
TBA	Indiana Jones 5	Announced

[ Source: Wikipedia ]