Michael Kahn (film editor)
Template:Short description Template:About Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox person Michael Kahn (born December 8, 1930)<ref name = Variety>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }} "Q: Happy Birthday! You’re 80 years old today, is that right? A: No, closer to 85, actually!"</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> is an American film editor known for his frequent collaboration with Steven Spielberg.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Early life
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."<ref name = Variety/>
Career
His first collaboration with Spielberg was for his 1977 film, Close Encounters of the Third Kind. He has edited all of Spielberg's subsequent films<ref name="Tapley">Template:Cite news</ref> except for E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), which was edited by Carol Littleton. Kahn has received eight Academy Award nominations for Best Film Editing, and has won three times—for Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Schindler's List (1993), and Saving Private Ryan (1998), which were all Spielberg-directed films.
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.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> 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."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> George Lucas remarked "Michael Kahn can cut faster on a Moviola than anybody can cut on an Avid."<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> However, since The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn (2011), Kahn has edited Spielberg's films on an Avid machine.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Filmography
Awards and nominations
Kahn equaled the record for the most Oscar wins (three) in the Best Film Editing category, shared with Ralph Dawson, Daniel Mandell, and Thelma Schoonmaker. Furthermore, he had eight nominations in that category—a number surpassed only by Schoonmaker. All of Kahn's Oscars came from his work on Spielberg's films, which included Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Schindler's List (1993), and Saving Private Ryan (1998). He has received six nominations for the BAFTA Award for Best Editing, winning for Fatal Attraction (1987) and Schindler's List.
Kahn has been selected for membership in the American Cinema Editors (ACE).<ref>"American Cinema Editors > Members", webpage archived by WebCite from this original URL on March 4, 2008.</ref> 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."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In November 2013, Spielberg created the Michael Kahn Endowed Chair in Editing at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts in honor of Kahn. The first to be appointed to the position was Norman Hollyn.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
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External links
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