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Michael Kahn
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MICHAEL KAHN, ACE (Editor) has won three Academy Awards for Best Editing for his work on films directed by Steven Spielberg. He won his first Oscar in 1982 for the blockbuster Raiders of the Lost Ark, and was also honored by his peers with an Eddie Award from the American Cinema Editors. In 1994, he received his second Oscar for the editing of Schindler's List, for which he also won a BAFTA Award.

His most recent Oscar came for his work on Spielberg's World War II drama Saving Private Ryan, which brought him another Eddie Award. In addition, Kahn has garnered Oscar nominations for his work on Spielberg's Empire of the Sun and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, as well as Adrian Lyne's Fatal Attraction, winning another BAFTA Award for the last.

Kahn has edited nearly all of Steven Spielberg's films, most recently working with the director on Catch Me if You Can, Minority Report, and The Terminal.  His other Spielberg collaborations include A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Amistad, Jurassic Park and the sequel The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Hook, Always, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, 1941 and The Color Purple.

Kahn has also edited a wide range of films for other directors, including The Haunting, Twister, Casper, Alive, Arachnophobia, The Goonies, Poltergeist and Eyes of Laura Mars.  His most recent credit is Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, for director Brad Silberling.

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