Michael Slovis
Michael Slovis is an American cinematographer and television director. He is best known for his cinematography on the AMC series Breaking Bad.
Michael Slovis
Career[edit]
Slovis began his professional career in 1981. For many years, he worked as a camera operator on films. He became a cinematographer in 1995, working on the films Party Girl (1995), Half Past Dead (2002), Halloweentown (1998), The Thirteenth Year (1999), and Ready to Run (2000). In 2000, Slovis became a cinematographer on the series Ed, and worked on the series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, New Amsterdam, Fringe, Royal Pains, Rubicon, Running Wilde, Breaking Bad, and Better Call Saul.[1]
As a director, Slovis made his directorial debut with the 2001 television film Spirit. Later, he directed episodes of Ed, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Rubicon, Breaking Bad, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Hell on Wheels[1] In 2006, Slovis won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for a One Hour Series for his work on CSI.[2]
In 2014, Slovis directed the first two episodes of the fifth season of the HBO series Game of Thrones, titled "The Wars to Come" and "The House of Black and White".[3] In 2017, he directed episode 3 of the second season of the series Preacher.[4] Slovis directed the episodes "Thank You", "Something They Need", and "Worth" of The Walking Dead, and returned to the franchise by directing two episodes of the spin-off series The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live.[5][6]
Personal life[edit]
Slovis currently resides in Montclair, New Jersey with his wife Maria. They have three children.[1] He is an alumnus of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts[7] and holds a BFA in Professional Photographic Illustration from Rochester Institute of Technology.