Michael Bauman
Known For
Camera
Biography
Michael Bauman is a director of photography and chief lighting technician. He worked with Paul Thomas Anderson on The Master (2012), Inherent Vice (2014), Radiohead's Daydreaming music video (2016), Phantom Thread (2017), and shared director of photography credits with Anderson on Licorice Pizza (2021). Other films Bauman worked on include Training Day (2001), Munich (2005), Iron Man (2008), Iron Man 2 (2010), Nightcrawler (2014), Ford v Ferrari (2019), The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021), and Amsterdam (2022).
Filmography
Tony
2026 — director of photography
One Battle After Another
2025 — director of photography
Amsterdam
2022 — gaffer
The Tragedy of Macbeth
2021 — gaffer
Licorice Pizza
2021 — director of photography
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
2020 — gaffer
Ford v Ferrari
2019 — gaffer
Vice
2018 — gaffer
Phantom Thread
2017 — chief lighting technician
Phantom Thread
2017 — lighting camera
HAIM / Valentine
2017 — gaffer
The Conjuring 2
2016 — chief lighting technician