Phil Abraham

Phil Abraham
Years active1999–present

Phil Abraham is an American cinematographer and television director.

He worked on all six seasons of The Sopranos, initially as a camera operator,[1] then as a cinematographer and eventually as an episodic director.

He won the 2008 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for a One Hour Series for his work on the pilot of Mad Men and has been nominated for four other Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series for his work on The Sopranos. Besides working as a cinematographer for Mad Men, he has also worked as a director for fifteen episodes. He picked up two more nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for Mad Men episodes "The Jet Set" and "The Other Woman".[2] He attended high school at York Preparatory School and graduated from Wesleyan University, along with Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner.

Filmography

Director

Year Title Episode(s)
2007-2015 Mad Men "The Hobo Code"
"Maidenform"
"The Jet Set"
"Out of Town"
"The Fog"
"Souvenir"
"Public Relations"
"The Summer Man"
"Chinese Wall"
"Lady Lazarus"
"The Other Woman"
"The Quality of Mercy"
"The Better Half"
"The Strategy"
"Lost Horizon"
2007 The Sopranos "Remember When"
2008 Crash "F-36, Sprint Left, T-4"
2009 Breaking Bad "Over"
2009-2010 Sons of Anarchy "Service"
"June Wedding"
2010 Mercy "I Did Kill You, Didn't I?"
White Collar "Bottlenecked"
2011 The Good Wife "Wrongful Termination"
Lights Out "Head Games"
The Walking Dead "Save the Last One"
Hell On Wheels "A New Birth of Freedom"
The Playboy Club "A Tryst of Fate" (unaired)
2011-2013 The Killing "Super 8"
"Ogi Jun"
"Sayonara, Hiawatha"
"From Up Here"
2012 Elementary "You Do It Yourself"
Boss "Redemption"
Weeds "Five Miles from Yetzer Hara"
2013 Masters of Sex "Phallic Victories"
Hostages "Burden of Truth"
The Following "The Siege"
2013-2015 Orange Is the New Black "Moscow Mule"
"A Whole Other Hole"
"It Was the Change"
"We Can Be Heroes"
"Trust No Bitch"
2014 Those Who Kill "Rocking The Boat"
2014-2015 The Strain "The Master"
"The Assassin"
"Dead End"
2014-2016 Ray Donovan "Gem and Loan"
"Federal Boobie Inspector"
2015 Halt and Catch Fire "New Coke"
"Heaven is A Place"
2015-2016 Bates Motel "Norma Louise"
"Till Death Do You Part"
2015-2018 Daredevil "Into the Ring"[3]
"Cut Man"
"Bang"
"Dogs to a Gunfight"
"One Last Shot"
2016 Good Behavior "The Ballad of Little Santino"
2017 The Defenders "Royal Dragon"
2018 Ozark "Game Day"
"Outer Darkness"
2019 Jack Ryan "Cargo"
"Tertia Opio"
Castle Rock "Restore Hope"
"New Jerusalem"
2020 Most Dangerous Game "The Offer"
"The Motivation"
"The Rules"
"The Acceptance"
"The Start"
"Wash Hands After Using"
"No Running on the Platform"
"Please Whisper in Church"
"Return Tools to their Place"
"Five for Fighting"
"You Always Remember Your First"
"A Ship Is Safe Only In Port"
"Always Gets a Second Opinion"
"What's Old Is New Again"
"Game Over"
2023 Hunters "The Trial of Adolf Hitler"
"Only the Dead"
"The Fare"
"Buenos Aires"
"Van Glooten's Day 1972 Butter Sculptor of the Year"
FUBAR "Pilot"

Cinematographer

Year Title Episode(s)
2007 Mad Men "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes"
"Ladies Room"
"Marriage of Figaro"
"New Amsterdam"
"Babylon"
2006 Six Degrees "Pilot"
1999-2007 The Sopranos "The Legend of Tennessee Moltisanti"
"Boca"
"A Hit is a Hit"
"Nobody Knows Anything"
"Isabella"
"I Dream of Jeannie Cusamano"
"Guy Walks Into a Psychiatrist's Office"
"Do Not Resuscitate"
"Toodle-Fucking-Oo"
"Commendatori"
"Big Girls Don't Cry"
"The Happy Wanderer"
"D-Girl"
"Full Leather Jacket"
"From Where to Eternity"
"Bust-Out"
"House Arrest"
"The Knight in White Satin Armor"
"Funhouse"
"Proshai, Livushka"
"Second Opinion"
"The Telltale Moozadell"
"Pine Barrens"
"Army of One"
"For All Debts Public and Private"
"Christopher"
"The Weight"
"Mergers and Acquisitions"
"Whoever Did This"
"Calling All Cars"
"Whitecaps"
"Two Tonys"
"Where's Johnny?"
"Irregular Around the Margins"
"Sentimental Education"
"Unidentified Black Males"
"The Test Dream"
"All Due Respect"
"Members Only"
"Mayham"
"Mr. & Mrs. John Sacrimoni Request"
"Luxury Lounge"
"The Ride"
"Cold Stones"
"Soprano Home Movies"
"Walk Like a Man"
"The Blue Comet"

References

  1. ^ "An Offer He Could Not Refuse: Phil Abraham Shoots 'The Sopranos'" (PDF). Tiffen Xpressions. April 2000. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 28, 2010. Retrieved April 21, 2015.
  2. ^ "Nominees/Winners". Television Academy. Retrieved 9 September 2019.
  3. ^ "Daredevil". British Board of Film Classification. February 18, 2015. Archived from the original on June 16, 2018. Retrieved February 18, 2015.