Michael Bauman

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Michael Bauman

Biography

Michael Bauman is mostly known as chief lighting technician and gaffer. 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), as well as the upcoming David O. Russell film.

Production

2000

Nurse Betty

as Gaffer

2014

Inherent Vice

as Chief Lighting Technician

2008

You Don't Mess with the Zohan

as Chief Lighting Technician

2005

Good Night, and Good Luck.

as Chief Lighting Technician

2011

Cowboys & Aliens

as Chief Lighting Technician

2016

The Conjuring 2

as Chief Lighting Technician

2002

Auto Focus

as Gaffer

2021

Licorice Pizza

as Director of Photography

2014

Nightcrawler

as Gaffer

2003

2018

Vice

as Gaffer

2022

Amsterdam

as Gaffer

2014

The Gambler

as Gaffer

2013

2012

People Like Us

as Chief Lighting Technician

2008

Iron Man

as Gaffer

2010

Iron Man 2

as Gaffer

2003

Phone Booth

as Gaffer

2001

15 Minutes

as Lighting Technician

2025

One Battle After Another

as Director of Photography

2004

Taxi

as Gaffer

2001

Driven

as Gaffer

2017

Phantom Thread

as Chief Lighting Technician

2012

The Master

as Chief Lighting Technician

2005

The Island

as Gaffer

2005

Munich

as Gaffer

2006

Smokin' Aces

as Gaffer

2002

Ticker

as Gaffer

1994

Benders

as Gaffer

2011

Rampart

as Gaffer

2001

Training Day

as Chief Lighting Technician

1999

The Thirteenth Floor

as Assistant Chief Lighting Technician

2019

2017

Phantom Thread

as Lighting Camera

2017

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