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Mikael Salomon

Camera Operator / Film Director / Cinematographer / Film Producer | * 02/24/1955 (70) | Copenhagen (Denmark)
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. Salomon then transitioned to a television director career, whose credits include Band of Brothers, Salem's Lot, Rome, and The Andromeda Strain. His directing awards and nominations include a Primetime Emmy Award and a Directors Guild of America Award. ()
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Mikael Salomon is a Danish filmmaker and cinematographer. After a long career in Denmark, he moved to Hollywood in the late 1980s. He has been nominated for an Oscar twice.

Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Crime | Action & Adventure

Known for these Movies & Shows

A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver soon finds himself on a spectacular odyssey 25,000 feet below the ocea ...

The Abyss

PG-13

1989 | 3.7/5 | 2h 19min
Adventure, Action, Thriller, Science Fiction
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Drawn from interviews with survivors of Easy Company, as well as their journals and letters, Band of Brothers chronicles the experiences of these men from paratrooper training in Georgia through the e ...

Band of Brothers

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2001 | 4.4/5 | 11h 45min
Action, Drama, War
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A thriller set two hundred years in the future following the case of a missing young woman who brings a hardened detective and a rogue ship's captain together in a race across the solar system to expo ...

The Expanse

TV-14

2015 | 4.0/5 | 43min per episode
Drama, Mystery, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
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A down-to-earth account of the lives of both illustrious and ordinary Romans set in the last days of the Roman Republic. ...

Rome

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2005 | 4.1/5 | 1h per episode
Action & Adventure, Drama
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Awards & Nominations for Mikael Salomon

Primetime Emmy Awards Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie Academy Award for Best Cinematography Academy Award for Best Visual Effects
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Movies with Mikael Salomon as Actor(2)

as himself2023 King on Screen
as himself1993 Under Pressure: Making 'The Abyss'

Movies with Mikael Salomon as Crew(39)

Directing/Director2014 Drew Peterson: Untouchable
Directing/Director2014 Big Driver
Directing/Director2014 Freezer
Directing/Director2012 Blue Lagoon: The Awakening
Directing/Director2010 Who Is Clark Rockefeller?
Directing/Director2010 The Lost Future
Directing/Director2009 Natalee Holloway
Production/Co-Executive Producer2009 Natalee Holloway
Directing/Director2008 Terra Incognita: Making the Andromeda Strain
Directing/Director2008 Flirting with Forty
Directing/Director2006 Fallen
Production/Executive Producer2006 Fallen
Directing/Director2003 Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor
Directing/Director2001 A Glimpse of Hell
Directing/Director2000 Sole Survivor
Directing/Director1998 Hard Rain
Directing/Director1993 A Far Off Place
Camera/Director of Photography1992 Far and Away
Camera/Director of Photography1991 Backdraft
Camera/Director of Photography1990 Arachnophobia
Camera/Director of Photography1989 Always
Camera/Director of Photography1989 The Abyss
Camera/Director of Photography1988 Torch Song Trilogy
Camera/Director of Photography1988 Zelly and Me
Camera/Director of Photography1987 The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains
Camera/Director of Photography1986 The Wolf at the Door
Camera/Director of Photography1976 På flykt undan mina landsmän
Camera/Director of Photography1976 Copper
Camera/Director of Photography1976 Elvis! Elvis!
Camera/Director of Photography1975 Only the Truth
Camera/Director of Photography1974 Around the World with Fanny Hill
Camera/Director of Photography1972 Bedside Highway
Camera/Additional Photography1972 Z.P.G.
Camera/Director of Photography1972 Chinese Ping-Pong
Camera/Director of Photography1971 Why Do They Do It?
Camera/Director of Photography1970 Daddy, Darling
Camera/Director of Photography1970 Famous Five Get in Trouble
Crew/Cinematography1969 Five and the Spies
Camera/Director of Photography1966 Søskende

TV Shows/Series with Mikael Salomon as Crew(27)

Directing/Director2017 Valor
Directing/Director2017 There's No Easy Job in This World
Directing/Director2016 Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders
Directing/Director2015 Blood & Oil
Directing/Director2015 The Expanse
Production/Producer2014 Massan
Directing/Director2013 Vive cantando
Directing/Director2011 Camelot
Directing/Director2011 Falling Skies
Directing/Director2010 Unnatural History
Production/Producer2010 Unnatural History
Directing/Director2010 Hotel 52
Production/Executive Producer2010 Hotel 52
Production/Producer2009 Hawthorne
Directing/Director2009 Hawthorne
Directing/Director2007 The Company
Creator/Creator2007 The Company
Creator/Creator2007 Fallen
Directing/Director2006 Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King
Directing/Director2005 Over There
Directing/Director2005 Rome
Directing/Director2004 The Grid
Directing/Director2001 The Agency
Directing/Director2001 Alias
Directing/Director1996 Nash Bridges
Directing/Director1993 Space Rangers
Crew/Cinematography1987 Once a Cop...

Full Name: Mikael Salomon
Born: Thursday, 02/24 1955 (February) in Copenhagen (Denmark) (current age: 70 years + 55 days)
Zodiac sign: Pisces (Chinese zodiac sign: Goat)
Languages: English (EN)
Children: Katrine Brygmann Salomon
Mikael Salomon frequently works together with these people:
Daniel Abraham (6x, Crew)
Dan Nowak (5x, Crew)
Ron Howard (4x, Crew)
J.J. Abrams (4x, Crew)
Tom Virtue (4x, Actor)
Frank Marshall (4x, Crew)
Hawk Ostby (4x, Crew)
Mark Fergus (4x, Crew)
Robin Veith (4x, Crew)
Trine Hedman (4x, Crew)
Dwight Campbell (4x, Crew)
Ted Atherton (4x, Actor)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:8502, Added: 05/06/2018, Last updated: 03/23/2025