Michael Kahn is one of the most successful editors working today, with combined box office totals for the films he has edited reaching into the billions. This is due in part to his association with several successful directors, Steven Spielberg heading the top of the list. Mr. Kahn has edited no less than 18 feature films for Mr. Spielberg, as well as the "Kick the Car" segment from Twilight Zone: The Movie. His upcoming projects include The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and Terminal, both for Steven Spielberg.

Mr. Kahn began his editing career in the early 1970s, editing the television sitcom Hogan's Heroes. He then went directly to editing feature films. His first features include Elliot Silverstein's A Man Called Horse and three films for director Robert Clouse.

Michael Kahn has also edited at least three films for director Jan de Bont, two films each for directors George C. Scott, Irvin Kershner, and Frank Marshall, and one feature each for directors Richard Donner, Emilio Estevez, John Frankenheimer, Tobe Hooper, Adrian Lyne, and Robert Zemeckis, among others.

Mr. Kahn has been nominated for an Oscar® six times (twice in 1988), winning three times, for the films Raiders of the Lost Ark, Schindler's List, and Saving Private Ryan. The other three nominations were for Fatal Attraction, Empire of the Sun, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

He has also been nominated seven times for the ACE Eddie Award and has won three times, for Raiders of the Lost Ark, Saving Private Ryan, and the 1976 motion picture for television, Eleanor & Franklin, for which he also won an Emmy.

In total, Mr. Kahn has cut over 50 feature films, including motion pictures for television. Some of his other film credits include Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, Minority Report, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Reindeer Games, The Haunting, Amistad, Jurassic Park and its sequels, Twister, Alive, Hook, Toy Soldiers, Arachnaphobia, Always, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Wisdom, The Color Purple, The Goonies, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Poltergeist, Used Cars, 1941, and Eyes of Laura Mars.

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