Michael Kahn

This busy former TV editor (e.g., "Hogan's Heroes") has cut most of the hits--and a few of the misses--directed by Steven Spielberg. Kahn's most successful collaboration began with the heavenly "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (1977), led to his first Oscar for the thrilling "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981), reached a peak with the harrowing "Schindler's List" (1993, for which he earned his second Academy Award) and may have achieved its zenith with his Oscar-winning cutting of the WWII epic "Saving Private Ryan" (1998). He did not always occupy such a lofty position in the industry; his