| Michael Slovis | |
| Birth Place: | Plainfield, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Occupation: | Cinematographer, television director, television producer |
| Years Active: | 1980–2014 (Cinematography) 2001–present (Director) |
| Spouse: | Maria Slovis |
| Children: | 3 |
Michael Slovis, ASC[1] is an American cinematographer, television director, and producer.
Slovis was born in Plainfield, New Jersey.
He was educated at the Rochester Institute of Technology and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.[2]
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 , 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, , 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.[3]
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".[4] In 2017, he directed episode 3 of the second season of the series Preacher.[5] 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 .[6] [7]
Slovis is a member of the American Society of Cinematographers.
Slovis currently resides in Montclair, New Jersey with his wife Maria. They have three children.[8]
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 | |
| Malicious | Ian Corson | ||
| Breach of Trust | Charles Wilkinson | ||
| 1998 | Scar City | Ken Sanzel | |
| Charlie Hoboken | Thomas F. Mazziotti | ||
| The White Raven | Andrew Stevens | ||
| 1999 | Five Aces | David Michael O'Neill | |
| The 4th Floor | Josh Klausner | ||
| 2002 | Half Past Dead | Don Michael Paul |
Direct-to-video
| Year | Title | Director | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Vibrations | Michael Paseornek | |
| Crash Dive | Andrew Stevens | ||
| 2003 | The Foreigner | Michael Oblowitz | |
| 2005 | The Marksman | Marcus Adams |
TV movies
| Year | Title | Director | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Angel Flight Down | Charles Wilkinson | |
| 1997 | Seduction in a Small Town | ||
| Steven Hilliard Stern | |||
| Out of Nowhere | Charles Wilkinson | ||
| 1998 | Halloweentown | Duwayne Dunham | |
| 1999 | The Thirteenth Year | ||
| 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 | 3 episodes | |||
| 2008 | New Amsterdam | 7 episodes | ||
| 2009 | Castle | Rob Bowman | Episode "Flowers for Your Grave" | |
| Fringe | Norberto Barba Brad Anderson Bobby Roth | Episodes "Ability", "Unleashed", "Midnight" and "There's More Than One of Everything" | ||
| Royal Pains | Don Scardino Jace Alexander Constantine Makris | 4 episodes | ||
| 2009–2013 | Breaking Bad | 48 episodes | ||
| 2010 | Rubicon | Guy Ferland Jeremy Podeswa | 2 episodes | |
| 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" |
TV series
| Year | Title | Director | Executive Producer | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Spirit | TV movie | |||
| 2004 | Ed | Episode "Pressure Points" | |||
| 2006–2007 | 3 episodes | ||||
| 2010 | Rubicon | Episode "Wayward Sons" | |||
| 2010–2013 | Breaking Bad | Episodes "Kafkaesque", "Cornered", "Live Free or Die" and "Confessions" | |||
| 2011 | Hell on Wheels | Episode "Pride, Pomp and Circumstance" | |||
| 2011–2018 | 13 episodes | ||||
| 2012 | 30 Rock | Episode "Alexis Goodlooking and the Case of the Missing Whisky" | |||
| 2012–2014 | Chicago Fire | 4 episodes | |||
| 2014 | Once Upon a Time in Wonderland | Episode "Nothing to Fear" | |||
| Chicago P.D. | Episodes "Stepping Stone" and "At Least It's Justice" | ||||
| 2014–2017 | Elementary | 4 episodes | |||
| 2015 | Game of Thrones | Episodes "The Wars to Come" and "The House of Black and White" | |||
| The Man in the High Castle | Episode "Kindness" | ||||
| The Affair | Episode "211" | ||||
| 2015-2018 | The Walking Dead | Episodes "Thank You", "Something They Need", "Worth" | |||
| 2016 | The New Yorker Presents | 1 episode | |||
| Better Call Saul | Episode "Bali Ha'i" | ||||
| 2016-2018 | Preacher | 7 episodes | |||
| 2017 | The Path | Episodes "The Father and the Son" and "The Red Wall" | |||
| 2018-2022 | New Amsterdam | 15 episodes | |||
| 2022 | The Calling | Episode "Blameless and Upright" | |||
| 2024-2026 | Episodes "L'Invisible" and "Vouloir, C'est Pouvoir" | ||||
| 2025 | Episodes "Lost Highway" and "Lago D'Averno" |
Miniseries
| Year | Title | Director | Co-Executive Producer | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Gracepoint | Episode 8 | |||
| 2018 | The Looming Tower | Episodes "Boys at War" and "The General" | |||
| 2024 | Episodes "Bye" and "What We" |
| 2006 | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Cinematography | "Gum Drops" | [9] | ||
| 2007 | "Built to Kill, Part 1") | |||||
| 2009 | Breaking Bad | "ABQ" | ||||
| 2010 | "No Más" | |||||
| 2012 | "Face Off" | |||||
| 2013 | "Gliding Over All" | |||||
| 2014 | "Granite State" |
