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Phil Abraham is an American cinematographer and television director. He has received nominations for eight Primetime Emmy Award nominations winning in 2008. He is known for his work on the HBO crime drama series The Sopranos and the AMC period drama series Mad Men.

Career

He worked on all six seasons of The Sopranos, initially as a camera operator, 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". 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"
"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"
2023-2025	FUBAR	"Pilot"
"Royally Flushed"
"Fullest House"
"Highly Re-Greta-Ble"
"Tango and Smash"
"Let's Twist Again"
2025	Boots	"The Buddy System"
"The Confidence Course"
2026	Your Friends & Neighbors	"Out East"
"I Feel Lost Without Me"
Dutton Ranch	"Den of Sin"
"Whiskey Limits"

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"

Awards and nominations

Organizations	Year	Category	Work	Result	Ref.
Primetime Emmy Awards	2000	Outstanding Cinematography for a Series (One Hour)	The Sopranos (episode: "D–Girl")
2004	Outstanding Cinematography for a Series (One Hour)	The Sopranos (episode: "Irregular Around the Margins")
2006	Outstanding Cinematography for a Series (One Hour)	The Sopranos (episode: "The Ride")
2007	Outstanding Cinematography for a Series (One Hour)	The Sopranos (episode: "Soprano Home Movies")
2008	Outstanding Cinematography for a Series (One Hour)	Mad Men (episode: "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes")
2009	Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series	Mad Men (episode: "The Jet Set")
2012	Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series	Mad Men (episode: "The Other Woman")
2020	Outstanding Short Form Comedy or Drama Series	Most Dangerous Game