# Michael Slovis

Michael Slovis is an American cinematographer and television director. He is best known for his cinematography on the AMC series Breaking Bad.

## Career

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.
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 In 2006, Slovis won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for a One Hour Series for his work on CSI.
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". In 2017, he directed episode 3 of the second season of the series Preacher. 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.

## Personal life

Slovis currently resides in Montclair, New Jersey with his wife Maria. They have three children. He is an alumnus of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and holds a BFA in Professional Photographic Illustration from Rochester Institute of Technology.

## Filmography
### Cinematographer
#### Film

Short film
| Year | Title | Director |
| 1989 | Coyote Mountain | Jeffrey W. Mueller |
| 1990 | The Burning Ghat | James Rasin |
Feature film
| Year | Title | Director |
| 1994 | Heading Home | Maria Heritier |
| 1995 | Party Girl | Daisy von Scherler Mayer |
| 1995 | Malicious | Ian Corson |
| 1995 | Breach of Trust | Charles Wilkinson |
| 1998 | Scar City | Ken Sanzel |
| 1998 | Charlie Hoboken | Thomas F. Mazziotti |
| 1998 | The White Raven | Andrew Stevens |
| 1999 | Five Aces | David Michael O'Neill |
| 1999 | The 4th Floor | Josh Klausner |
| 2002 | Half Past Dead | Don Michael Paul |
* ↑ Also credited as co-producer
Direct-to-video
| Year | Title | Director |
| 1996 | Vibrations | Michael Paseornek |
| 1996 | Crash Dive | Andrew Stevens |
| 2003 | The Foreigner | Michael Oblowitz |
| 2005 | The Marksman | Marcus Adams |

#### Television

TV movies
| Year | Title | Director |
| 1996 | Angel Flight Down | Charles Wilkinson |
| 1997 | Seduction in a Small Town | Charles Wilkinson |
| 1997 | Breaking the Surface: The Greg Louganis Story | Steven Hilliard Stern |
| 1997 | Out of Nowhere | Charles Wilkinson |
| 1998 | Halloweentown | Duwayne Dunham |
| 1999 | The Thirteenth Year | Duwayne Dunham |
| 1999 | Michael Landon, the Father I Knew | Michael Landon Jr. |
| 2000 | Ready to Run | Duwayne Dunham |
| 2009 | Exit 19 | |
TV series
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
| 2004 | Ed | Himself | Episode "Pressure Points" |
| 2006-2007 | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Himself | 3 episodes |
| 2008 | New Amsterdam | | 7 episodes |
| 2009 | Castle | Rob Bowman | Episode "Flowers for Your Grave" |
| 2009 | Fringe | Norberto Barba Brad Anderson Bobby Roth | Episodes "Ability", "Unleashed", "Midnight" and "There's More Than One of Everything" |
| 2009 | Royal Pains | Don Scardino Jace Alexander Constantine Makris | 4 episodes |
| 2009-2013 | Breaking Bad | | 48 episodes |
| 2010 | Rubicon | Guy Ferland Jeremy Podeswa | 2 episodes |
| 2010 | Running Wilde | Alex Hardcastle Jeff Melman Scott Ellis | 4 episodes |
| 2012 | 30 Rock | John Riggi Beth McCarthy-Miller Jeff Richmond Michael Engler Steve Buscemi Claire Cowperthwaite | 11 episodes |
| 2014 | The Leftovers | Peter Berg | Episode "Pilot" |

### Director

| Year | Title | Director | Executive Producer | Notes |
| 2001 | Spirit | Yes | No | TV movie |
| 2004 | Ed | Yes | No | Episode "Pressure Points" |
| 2006-2007 | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Yes | No | 3 episodes |
| 2010 | Rubicon | Yes | No | Episode "Wayward Sons" |
| 2010-2013 | Breaking Bad | Yes | No | Episodes "Kafkaesque", "Cornered", "Live Free or Die" and "Confessions" |
| 2011 | Hell on Wheels | Yes | No | Episode "Pride, Pomp and Circumstance" |
| 2011-2018 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Yes | No | 13 episodes |
| 2012 | 30 Rock | Yes | No | Episode "Alexis Goodlooking and the Case of the Missing Whisky" |
| 2012-2014 | Chicago Fire | Yes | No | 4 episodes |
| 2014 | Once Upon a Time in Wonderland | Yes | No | Episode "Nothing to Fear" |
| 2014 | Chicago P.D. | Yes | No | Episodes "Stepping Stone" and "At Least It's Justice" |
| 2014 | Gracepoint | Yes | No | Episode 8 |
| 2014-2017 | Elementary | Yes | No | 4 episodes |
| 2015 | Game of Thrones | Yes | No | Episodes "The Wars to Come" and "The House of Black and White" |
| 2015 | The Man in the High Castle | Yes | No | Episode "Kindness" |
| 2015 | The Affair | Yes | No | Episode "211" |
| 2015-2018 | The Walking Dead | Yes | No | Episodes "Thank You", "Something They Need" |
| 2016 | The New Yorker Presents | Yes | No | 1 episode |
| 2016 | Better Call Saul | Yes | No | Episode "Bali Ha'i" |
| 2016-2018 | Preacher | Yes | Yes | 7 episodes |
| 2017 | The Path | Yes | No | Episodes "The Father and the Son" and "The Red Wall" |
| 2018 | The Looming Tower | Yes | No | Episodes "Boys at War" and "The General" |
| 2018-2022 | New Amsterdam | Yes | Yes | 15 episodes |
| 2022 | The Calling | Yes | Yes | Episode "Blameless and Upright" |
| 2024 | The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live | Yes | Co-Executive | Episodes "Bye" and "What We" |
| 2024 | The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon | Yes | No | Episodes "L'Invisible" and "Vouloir, C'est Pouvoir" |