Phil Abraham | |
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| Years active | 1999–present |
Phil Abraham is an Americancinematographer andtelevision director. He has received nominations for eightPrimetime Emmy Award nominations winning in 2008. He is known for his work on theHBO crime drama seriesThe Sopranos and theAMC period drama seriesMad Men.
He worked on all six seasons ofThe Sopranos, initially as a camera operator,[1] then as a cinematographer and eventually as an episodic director.
He won the 2008Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for a One Hour Series for his work on thepilot ofMad Men and has been nominated for four other Primetime Emmy Awards forOutstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series for his work onThe Sopranos. Besides working as a cinematographer forMad Men, he has also worked as a director for fifteen episodes. He picked up two more nominations for aPrimetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series forMad Men episodes "The Jet Set" and "The Other Woman".[2] He attended high school atYork Preparatory School and graduated fromWesleyan University, along withMad Men creatorMatthew Weiner.
| 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" |
| 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" |
| Organizations | Year | Category | Work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primetime Emmy Awards | 2000 | Outstanding Cinematography for a Series (One Hour) | The Sopranos (episode: "D–Girl") | Nominated | [4] |
| 2004 | Outstanding Cinematography for a Series (One Hour) | The Sopranos (episode: "Irregular Around the Margins") | Nominated | [5] | |
| 2006 | Outstanding Cinematography for a Series (One Hour) | The Sopranos (episode: "The Ride") | Nominated | [6] | |
| 2007 | Outstanding Cinematography for a Series (One Hour) | The Sopranos (episode: "Soprano Home Movies") | Nominated | [7] | |
| 2008 | Outstanding Cinematography for a Series (One Hour) | Mad Men (episode: "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes") | Won | [8] | |
| 2009 | Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series | Mad Men (episode: "The Jet Set") | Nominated | [9] | |
| 2012 | Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series | Mad Men (episode: "The Other Woman") | Nominated | [10] | |
| 2020 | Outstanding Short Form Comedy or Drama Series | Most Dangerous Game | Nominated | [11] |
