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Mikael Salomon
Highest Rated: 93% Arachnophobia (1990)
Lowest Rated: 33% Freezer (2014)
Birthday: Feb 24, 1945
Birthplace: Malmö, Sweden
Leading Danish cinematographer who by the age of 40 had some 50 credits under his belt, mainly in Scandinavian films. Salomon quickly built a reputation in Hollywood as an adept director of photography on epics, difficult shoots, and special effects extravaganzas. These successes soon led to directing assignments in TV and features. Salomon's credits in Denmark and Europe include Henning Carlsen's biopic of Gaugin, "Wolf at the Door" (1987), "The Flying Devils" (1985), and "The Baron" (1979). In Hollywood, he has worked on "Zelly and Me" (1988), "Torch Song Trilogy" (1988), James Cameron's underwater spectacle, "The Abyss" (1989), which earned him an Oscar nomination, Ron Howard's "Backdraft" (1991), for which he was Oscar-nominated for visual effects, and Howard's "Far and Away," his first film shot in 65mm.
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50% | 29% | Big Driver | Director | - | 2014 |
| 33% | 27% | Freezer | Director | - | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | 44% | Blue Lagoon: The Awakening | Director | - | 2012 |
| No Score Yet | 44% | Drew Peterson: Untouchable | Director | - | 2012 |
| No Score Yet | 16% | The Lost Future | Director | - | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | 46% | Who Is Clark Rockefeller? | Director | - | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | 31% | Natalee Holloway | Director | - | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | 52% | Flirting With Forty | Director | - | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fallen the Journey |
Director, Executive Producer |
- | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | Fallen |
Director, Executive Producer |
- | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fallen III: The Destiny |
Director, Executive Producer |
- | 2006 |
| 68% | 49% | Salem's Lot | Director | - | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | 30% | Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor | Director | - | 2003 |
| 33% | 38% | A Glimpse of Hell | Director | - | 2001 |
| 34% | 34% | Hard Rain | Director | $19.9M | 1998 |
| 42% | 69% | A Far Off Place | Director | $12.9M | 1993 |
| 73% | 75% | Backdraft | Cinematographer | $75.7M | 1991 |
| 93% | 54% | Arachnophobia | Cinematographer | $53.2M | 1990 |
| 68% | 58% | Always | Cinematographer | - | 1989 |
| 89% | 83% | The Abyss | Cinematographer | $54.3M | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | 60% | Zelly and Me | Cinematographer | $8.7K | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | 88% | Wolf at the Door | Cinematographer | $39.0K | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Flying Devils | Cinematographer | - | 1985 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Around the World With Fanny Hill | Cinematographer | - | 1974 |
| No Score Yet | 23% | Z.P.G. | Cinematographer | - | 1972 |
| 92% | 94% | Elvis: That's the Way It Is | Film Editing | - | 1970 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 73% | No Score Yet | The Company | Director | 2007 2021 |
| 77% | 66% | The Long Road Home | Director | 2017 |
| 21% | 82% | Valor | Director | 2017 |
| 25% | 47% | Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders | Director | 2017 |
| 14% | 83% | Damien | Director | 2016 |
| 63% | 40% | Blood & Oil | Director | 2015 |
| 48% | 80% | Powers | Director | 2015 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | HawthoRNe | Director | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Company | Director | 2007 |
| 85% | No Score Yet | Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King | Director | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Salem's Lot | Director | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Agency | Director | 2001 |
| 97% | 96% | Band of Brothers | Director | 2001 |
| 86% | 87% | Alias | Director | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Fugitive | Director | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Aftershock: Earthquake in New York | Director | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Nash Bridges | Director | 1998 |