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Michael Slovis: Breaking Bad cinematographer

Slovis began his professional career in 1981. For many years, he worked as a camera operator on films. He became a cinematographer in 1995, working on the films Party Girl (1995), Half Past Dead (2002), Halloweentown (1998), The Thirteenth Year (1999), and Ready to Run (2000). In 2000, Slovis became a cinematographer on the series Ed, and went on to work on the series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, New Amsterdam, Fringe, Royal Pains, Rubicon, Running Wilde, and Breaking Bad^.

As a director, Slovis made his directorial debut with the 2001 television film Spirit. Later, he went on to direct episodes of Ed, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Rubicon, Breaking Bad, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Hell on Wheels. In 2006, Slovis won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for a One Hour Series for his work on CSI.

In 2014, he directed episodes 1 and 2 of Season 5 of the HBO series Game of Thrones. 

Slovis is an alumnus of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.

Adam Arkapaw: True Detective cinematographer 

Adam Arkapaw is an Australian cinematographer. He is best known for his work on the television series Top of the Lake and True Detective, for which he has won two Creative Arts Emmy Awards. He studied at the University of Melbourne's Victorian College of the Arts, graduating in 2006 with a Bachelor of Film and Television. n addition to numerous short films, Arkapaw photographed three Australian features over the next several years: Animal Kingdom (2010), Snowtown (2011), and Lore (2012).
He received a nomination for the AACTA Award for Best Cinematography in 2010 for his work on Animal Kingdom and in 2011 he was named one of Variety magazine's "10 Cinematographers to Watch". Arkawpaw next worked on Jane Campion's television miniseries Top of the Lake, which was filmed in New Zealand and broadcast in 2013. That year he won a Creative Arts Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for a Miniseries or Movie.
In 2014 he won his second Emmy Award, for Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series, in recognition of his work on the HBO television series True Detective. True Detective was filmed in Louisiana and Arkapaw's cinematography received wide praise, especially for a six-minute single-take long take that was planned over months and took one and a half days to film.
 Arkapaw was the cinematographer of the 2015 film Macbeth, directed by Justin Kurzel, with whom Arkapaw previously worked on Snowtown. He also photographed McFarland, USA, an American sports film released in 2015, and the upcoming drama film The Light Between Oceans.

Dana Gonzales: Fargo cinematographer 

Dana Gonzales came up through the ranks with his 2nd unit work on Paul Haggis' Academy Award winning film Crash, Julie Taymor's The Tempest and David O. Russell's The Fighter. He swiftly moved into main unit cinematography on Michael Shroeder's Man In The Chair, starring Christopher Plummer. Soon thereafter he began his longstanding collaboration with director Ric Roman Waugh, beginning with Felon, starring Val Kilmer and Stephen Dorff followed by Snitch, starring Dwayne Johnson.

In addition to features, Dana has a thriving television career. His style ranges from the hyperreal, slick aesthetic of the ABC series Pretty Little Liars to the grittier, handheld look of Southland for TNT and the modern-day western Longmire for A&E. Over the years, his work has garnered a lot of attention and earned him an Emmy Award Nomination in Outstanding Cinematography for a Miniseries or Movie on the highly acclaimed FX series, Fargo and Dana was also chosen for Variety's Below The Line Impact Report for 2014.

Recently, Dana completed Brad Payton's feature film, Incarnate, starring Aaron Eckhart and Ariel Vromen's Criminal for Millennium Films, starring Kevin Costner, Ryan Reynolds, and Gary Oldman. He is currently shooting Ric Waugh's Shot Caller for Bold Films, starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Lake Bell, and Jon Bernthal.