Mikael Salomon

Mikael Salomon
Born (1945-02-24) 24 February 1945 (age 78)
NationalityDanish
Occupation(s)Cinematographer
television director
television producer
film director
Years active1963–present
Organization(s)Directors Guild of America
American Society of Cinematographers
AwardsPrimetime Emmy Award
Christopher Award
Bodil Awards
Robert Award

Mikael Salomon (born 24 February 1945) is a Danish cinematographer, director and producer of film and television. After a long cinematography career in Danish cinema, he transitioned to the Hollywood film industry in the late 1980s, earning two Academy Award nominations. He is also a television director whose credits include dozens of series, films and miniseries including Band of Brothers, Salem's Lot, Rome, and The Andromeda Strain. His awards and nominations include a Primetime Emmy Award and a Directors Guild of America Award.

Life and career

Born in Copenhagen, Denmark, Salomon photographed dozens of films in his native country, earning awards including the Robert Award and Bodil Awards. In the late 1980s, he relocated to Hollywood and shot his first mainstream American film with Torch Song Trilogy, a 1988 comedy-drama starring Harvey Fierstein, Anne Bancroft, and Matthew Broderick. The following year, he shot the James Cameron-helmed science fiction film The Abyss, a film that helped to pioneer the field of computer-generated visual effects. Salomon used three cameras in watertight housings that were specially designed. Another special housing was designed for scenes that went from above-water dialogue to below-water dialogue. The filmmakers had to figure out how to keep the water clear enough to shoot and dark enough to look realistic at 2,000 feet (700 m), which was achieved by floating a thick layer of plastic beads in the water and covering the top of the tank with an enormous tarpaulin. His work on the film earned Salomon a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography.

In the following years, Salomon shot several blockbuster films like Always, Backdraft, and Far and Away, collaborating with directors like Steven Spielberg and Ron Howard.

In 1993, Salomon directed A Far Off Place, an adventure drama film filmed on location in Namibia and Zimbabwe, replacing original director René Manzor after being recommended to producer Kathleen Kennedy by Steven Spielberg. That same year, he directed an episode of the short-lived science fiction series Space Rangers, beginning a career as a television director. In 1998, he directed the Emmy-nominated Aftershock: Earthquake in New York, the first in many television miniseries which Salomon would helm. The most notable of these was Band of Brothers, a 10-part series executive produced by Spielberg for which Salomon won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special and a Christopher Award.

Since then, Salomon has over thirty-five programs, including the miniseries adaptations of The Andromeda Strain and Coma broadcast on the A&E Network.

Personal life

Salomon is of Jewish descent on one parent's side.

Filmography

Television

TV series

Year Title Notes
1993 Space Rangers 1 episode
1998 Nash Bridges
2000 The Fugitive 2 episodes
2001 Alias 1 episode
The Agency 3 episodes
2005 Over There 1 episode
Rome 3 episodes
2006 Nightmares & Dreamscapes 2 episodes
Runaway Pilot episode
2007 The Company 6 episodes;
Nominated- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing
Nominated- DGA Award for Outstanding Directing in a Movie for a Miniseries
2009 Hawthorne Pilot episode
2010 Unnatural History 2 episodes;
Nominated- DGA Award for Outstanding Directing for a Children's Program
2011 Camelot 3 episodes
2014 Falling Skies Pilot episode
2015 Blood & Oil 1 episode
2015–16 Powers 5 episodes
2016 Damien 1 episode
2017 Six 2 episodes
The Expanse
Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders 1 episode
2018 The Brave 1 episode

Miniseries

Year Title Notes
1999 Aftershock: Earthquake in New York 2 episodes
2001 Band of Brothers 2 episodes;
Christopher Television & Cable Award
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing
2004 Salem's Lot 2 episodes
The Grid 6 episodes
2006 Fallen 1 episode
2008 The Andromeda Strain 4 episodes;
Nominated- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Series
Nominated- DGA Award for Outstanding Directing in a Movie for a Miniseries
2012 Coma 2 episodes

TV movies

Film

Director

Cinematographer

Year Title Director Notes
1987 The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains Daniel Mann CableACE Award for Direction of Photography in a Miniseries
1988 Torch Song Trilogy Paul Bogart
Zelly and Me Tina Rathborne
1989 The Abyss James Cameron Nominated- Academy Award for Best Cinematography
Nominated- ASC Award for Outstanding Cinematography in a Theatrical Release
Always Steven Spielberg
1990 Arachnophobia Frank Marshall
1991 Backdraft Ron Howard Nominated- Academy Award for Best Visual Effects
Nominated- BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects
1992 Far and Away

Awards and nominations

Won

Nominated


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