Sheldon Kahn
Sheldon F. Kahn ( born March 1, 1940) is an American editor.
Life
After his family moved to California, Sheldon Kahn knew at the age of seven years, that he would someday work behind the camera. So he went after school, when it offered to test shots to see how to work on a movie set. As in 1963 after graduating from the University of Southern California looking for work, he found a job in the mailroom of CBS. When the Möglichkleit offered at the television KNXT using KEM, a German cutting table technique of Keller electronics mechanics from Hamburg to edit messages, he used this. In the news, he acquired with the KEM- technology experience so much that he was drawn to the film section into consideration. He even assisted in films like tattoo and flower in love while he was flying with his first self-responsible Editor of One has already won over the Cuckoo's Nest with an Oscar nomination.
After Kahn Sydney Pollack already the films The Electric Horseman and Malice cut him the section of Out of Africa, brought a second Oscar nomination. Even with director Ivan Reitman connects him a long-term cooperation. So he cut not only includes Twins - Twins, Ghostbusters II and Kindergarten Cop, but also Six Days, Seven Nights and Junior. He described himself as a performance editor, since it always scenes in the cut with worked into it that were not necessary, but always represented interesting aspects of individual figures.
Sheldon Kahn is a member of the American Cinema Editors.