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{{Short description|American cinematographer and television director}}
'''Phil Abraham''' is an American film and television cinematographer and director. 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 has been nominated for four [[emmy awards]] for best cinematography in a single camera series for his work on ''The Sopranos''. He has also worked as a cinematographer and director for ''[[Mad Men.]]'' He graduated from [[Wesleyan University,]] along with Mad Men creator [[Matthew Weiner.]]
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'''Phil Abraham''' is an American [[cinematographer]] and [[television director]].
 
He worked on all six seasons of ''[[The Sopranos]]'', initially as a camera operator,<ref>{{cite web|title=An Offer He Could Not Refuse: Phil Abraham Shoots 'The Sopranos'|url=http://www.tiffen.com/tiffen45.pdf|website=Tiffen Xpressions|access-date=April 21, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100928171051/http://www.tiffen.com/tiffen45.pdf|archive-date=September 28, 2010|date=April 2000}}</ref> 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 [[Television pilot|pilot]] of ''[[Mad Men]]'' and has been nominated for four other Primetime Emmy Awards for [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series|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 (Mad Men)|The Other Woman]]".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2012/outstanding-directing-for-a-drama-series|title=Nominees/Winners |work=Television Academy|access-date=9 September 2019}}</ref> He attended high school at [[York Preparatory School]] and graduated from [[Wesleyan University]], along with ''Mad Men'' creator [[Matthew Weiner]].
 
==Filmography==
===Director===
{| class="wikitable"
{| border="2" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
! scope="col" | Year
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC" align="center"
! scope="col" | Title
! Year !! Series !! Episode !! Notes
! scope="col" | Episode(s)
|-
|rowspan=15| 2007-2015
|2008
|rowspan=215| ''[[Mad Men]]''
| "[[The Hobo Code]]"
|"Maidenform"
|Season 2, episode 6
|-
| "[[Maidenform (Mad Men)|Maidenform]]"
|rowspan=2|2007
|"The Hobo Code"
|Season 1, episode 8
|-
|'' "[[The SopranosJet Set (Mad Men)|The Jet Set]]''"
|-
|"Remember When"
| "[[Out of Town (Mad Men)|Out of Town]]"
|Season 6, episode 15
|-
| "[[The Fog (Mad Men)|The Fog]]"
|-
| "[[Souvenir (Mad Men)|Souvenir]]"
|-
| "[[Public Relations (Mad Men)|Public Relations]]"
|-
| "[[The Summer Man]]"
|-
| "[[Chinese Wall (Mad Men)|Chinese Wall]]"
|-
| "[[Lady Lazarus (Mad Men)|Lady Lazarus]]"
|-
| "[[The Other Woman (Mad Men)|The Other Woman]]"
|-
| "The Quality of Mercy"
|-
| "The Better Half"
|-
| "The Strategy"
|-
| "Lost Horizon"
|-
| 2007
| ''[[The Sopranos]]''
| "[[Remember When (The Sopranos)|Remember When]]"
|-
|}
 
===Cinematographer===
 
| 2008
{| border="2" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
| ''[[Crash (2008 TV series)|Crash]]''
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC" align="center"
| "F-36, Sprint Left, T-4"
! Year !! Series !! Episode !! Notes
|-
| 2009
|rowspan=8|2007
|rowspan=5| ''[[MadBreaking MenBad]]''
| "[[Over (Breaking Bad)|Over]]"
|"Babylon"
|Season 1, episode 6
|-
|rowspan=2|2009-2010
|"New Amsterdam"
|rowspan=2| ''[[Sons of Anarchy]]''
|Season 1, episode 4
| "Service"
|-
| "June Wedding"
|"Marriage of Figaro"
|Season 1, episode 3
|-
| rowspan=2| 2010
|"Ladies Room"
 
|Season 1, episode 2
| ''[[Mercy (TV series)|Mercy]]''
| "I Did Kill You, Didn't I?"
|-
| ''[[White Collar (TV series)|White Collar]]''
|"Smoke Gets in Your Eyes"
| "[[Bottlenecked]]"
|Season 1, episode 1
|-
|rowspan=35|''[[The Sopranos]]''2011
|" ''[[The BlueGood Comet"Wife]]''
| "Wrongful Termination"
|Season 6 part 2, episode 20
|-
| ''[[Lights Out (2011 TV series)|Lights Out]]''
|"Walk Like a Man"
| "Head Games"
|Season 6 part 2, episode 17
|-
| ''[[The Walking Dead (TV series)|The Walking Dead]]''
|"Soprano Home Movies"
| "[[Save the Last One]]"
|Season 6 part 2, episode 13
|-
| ''[[Hell on Wheels (TV series)|Hell On Wheels]]''
|rowspan=7|2006
| "[[A New Birth of Freedom]]"
|''Six Degrees''
|"Pilot"
|Season 1, episode 1
|-
|rowspan=44| ''[[The SopranosPlayboy Club]]''
| "A Tryst of Fate" (unaired)
|"Cold Stones"
|Season 6 part 1, episode 11
|-
|rowspan=4|2011-2013
|"The Ride"
|rowspan=4| ''[[The Killing (American TV series)|The Killing]]''
|Season 6 part 1, episode 9
| "[[Super 8 (The Killing)|Super 8]]"
|-
| "Luxury[[Ogi LoungeJun]]"
|Season 6 part 1, episode 7
|-
| "[[Sayonara, Hiawatha]]"
|"Mr. & Mrs. John Sacrimoni Request"
|Season 6 part 1, episode 5
|-
| "[[From Up Here]]"
|"Mayham"
|Season 6 part 1, episode 3
|-
| rowspan=3| 2012
|"Members Only"
| ''[[Elementary (TV series)|Elementary]]''
|Season 6 part 1, episode 1
| "You Do It Yourself"
|-
| ''[[Boss (TV series)|Boss]]''
|rowspan=7|2004
| "Redemption"
|"All Due Respect"
|Season 5, episode 13
|-
| ''[[Weeds (TV series)|Weeds]]''
|"The Test Dream"
| "[[Five Miles from Yetzer Hara]]"
|Season 5, episode 11
|-
|rowspan=3|2013
|"Unidentified Black Males"
| ''[[Masters of Sex]]''
|Season 5, episode 9
| "Phallic Victories"
|-
| ''[[Hostages (American TV series)|Hostages]]''
|"Sentimental Education"
| "Burden of Truth"
|Season 5, episode 6
|-
| ''[[The Following]]''
|"Irregular Around the Margins"
| "The Siege"
|Season 5, episode 5
|-
|rowspan=5| 2013-2015
|"Where's Johnny?"
|rowspan=5|''[[Orange Is the New Black]]''
|Season 5, episode 3
| "Moscow Mule"
|-
| "[[A Whole Other Hole]]"
|"Two Tonys"
|Season 5, episode 1
|-
| "[[It Was the Change]]"
|rowspan=7|2002
|"Whitecaps"
|Season 4, episode 13
|-
| "CallingWe Can AllBe CarsHeroes"
|Season 4, episode 11
|-
| "WhoeverTrust DidNo ThisBitch"
|Season 4, episode 9
|-
| 2014
|"Mergers and Acquisitions"
| ''[[Those Who Kill (American TV series)|Those Who Kill]]''
|Season 4, episode 8
| "Rocking The Boat"
|-
|rowspan=3| 2014-2015
|"The Weight"
|rowspan=3| ''[[The Strain (TV series)|The Strain]]''
|Season 4, episode 4
| "The Master"
|-
| "The Assassin"
|"Christopher"
|Season 4, episode 3
|-
| "Dead End"
|"For All Debts Public and Private"
|Season 4, episode 1
|-
|rowspan=52|2001 2014-2016
|rowspan=2| ''[[Ray Donovan]]''
|"Army of One"
| "Gem and Loan"
|Season 3, episode 13
|-
| "Federal Boobie Inspector"
|"Pine Barrens"
|Season 3, episode 11
|-
|rowspan=2| 2015
|"The Telltale Moozadell"
|rowspan=2| ''[[Halt and Catch Fire (TV series)|Halt and Catch Fire]]''
|Season 3, episode 9
| "New Coke"
|-
| "Heaven is A Place"
|"Second Opinion"
|Season 3, episode 7
|-
 
|"Proshai, Livushka"
|rowspan=2| 2015-2016
|Season 3, episode 2
|rowspan=2| ''[[Bates Motel (TV series)|Bates Motel]]''
| "Norma Louise"
|-
| "Till Death Do You Part"
|rowspan=13|2000
|"Funhouse"
|Season 2, episode 13
|-
 
|"The Knight in White Satin Armor"
 
|Season 2, episode 12
|rowspan=5| 2015-2018
|rowspan=5| ''[[Daredevil (TV series)|Daredevil]]''
| "[[Into the Ring]]"<ref name="BBFC">{{cite web|url=http://bbfc.co.uk/search/releases/daredevil|title=Daredevil|work=[[British Board of Film Classification]]|date=February 18, 2015|access-date=February 18, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180616161441/http://bbfc.co.uk/search/releases/daredevil|archive-date=June 16, 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
| "[[Cut Man (Daredevil)|Cut Man]]"
|"House Arrest"
|Season 2, episode 11
|-
| "[[Bang (Daredevil)|Bang]]"
|"Bust-Out"
|Season 2, episode 10
|-
| "From Where[[Dogs to Eternitya Gunfight]]"
|Season 2, episode 9
|-
| "Full[[One LeatherLast JacketShot]]"
|Season 2, episode 8
|-
| 2016
|"D-Girl"
| ''[[Good Behavior (TV series)|Good Behavior]]''
|Season 2, episode 7
| "The Ballad of Little Santino"
|-
| 2017
|"The Happy Wanderer"
| ''[[The Defenders (miniseries)|The Defenders]]''
|Season 2, episode 6
| "[[Royal Dragon]]"
|-
| rowspan=2| 2018
|"Big Girls Don't Cry"
| rowspan=2| ''[[Ozark (TV series)|Ozark]]''
|Season 2, episode 5
| "Game Day"
|-
| "Outer Darkness"
|"Commendatori"
|Season 2, episode 4
|-
|rowspan="4" | 2019
|"Toodle-Fucking-Oo"
| rowspan="2" | ''[[Jack Ryan (TV series)|Jack Ryan]]''
|Season 2, episode 3
| "Cargo"
|-
| "Tertia Opio"
|"Do Not Resuscitate"
|Season 2, episode 2
|-
| rowspan="2" | ''[[Castle Rock (TV series)|Castle Rock]]''
|"Guy Walks Into a Psychiatrist's Office"
| "Restore Hope"
|Season 2, episode 1
|-
| "New Jerusalem"
|rowspan=6|1999
|"I Dream of Jeannie Cusamano"
|Season 1, episode 13
|-
| rowspan="15" | 2020
|"Isabella"
| rowspan="15" | ''[[Most Dangerous Game]]''
|Season 1, episode 12
| "The Offer"
|-
| "The Motivation"
|"Nobody Knows Anything"
|Season 1, episode 11
|-
| "The Rules"
|"A Hit is a Hit"
|Season 1, episode 10
|-
| "The Acceptance"
|"Boca"
|Season 1, episode 9
|-
| "The Start"
|"The Legend of Tennessee Moltisanti"
|-
|Season 1, episode 8
| "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"
|-
| rowspan="6" | 2023
| rowspan="5" | ''[[Hunters (2020 TV series)|Hunters]]''
| "The Trial of Adolf Hitler"
|-
| "Only the Dead"
|-
| "The Fare"
|-
| "Buenos Aires"
|-
| "Van Glooten's Day 1972 Butter Sculptor of the Year"
|-
| ''[[FUBAR (TV series)|FUBAR]]''
| "Pilot"
|-
|}
 
===Camera operatorCinematographer===
{| class="wikitable"
! Year !! Title !! Episode(s)
|-
|rowspan=5|2007
|rowspan=5|''[[Mad Men]]''
|"Smoke Gets in Your Eyes"
|-
|"Ladies Room"
|-
|"Marriage of Figaro"
|-
|"New Amsterdam"
|-
|"Babylon"
|-
 
| 2006
{| border="2" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
|''[[Six Degrees (TV series)|Six Degrees]]''
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC" align="center"
|"Pilot"
! Year !! Series !! Episode !! Notes
|-
 
|rowspan=4|1999
|rowspan=447|''[[The Sopranos]]''1999-2007
|rowspan=47|''[[The Sopranos]]''
|"Down Neck"
|"The Legend of Tennessee Moltisanti"
|Season 1, episode 7
|-
|"Pax SopranaBoca"
|Season 1, episode 6
|-
|"A Hit is a Hit"
|"College"
|Season 1, episode 5
|-
|"Nobody Knows Anything"
|"Denial, Anger, Acceptance"
|Season 1, episode 3
|-
|"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"
|}
 
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{{Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for a Series (One Hour)}}
 
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