Darren Michaels, originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is an award winning motion picture unit still photographer based in Los Angeles, CA, who has created publicity, marketing, and advertising images for over 70 major motion pictures campaigns. His credits include:

• The Mask
  The Mask (film)
  The Mask is a 1994 American superhero comedy film based on a series of comic books published by Dark Horse Comics. This film was directed by Chuck Russell, and produced by Dark Horse Entertainment and New Line Cinema, and originally released to movie theatres on July 29, 1994 through New Line...
  
  
• Lolita
  Lolita (1997 film)
  Lolita is a 1997 French-American drama film directed by Adrian Lyne. It is the second screen adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's novel of the same name and stars Jeremy Irons as Humbert Humbert and Dominique Swain as Dolores "Lolita" Haze, with supporting roles by Melanie Griffith as Charlotte Haze,...
  
  
• Jackie Brown
  Jackie Brown (film)
  Jackie Brown is a 1997 American crime drama film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. It is an adaptation of the novel Rum Punch by American novelist Elmore Leonard and pays homage to 1970s blaxploitation films....
  
  
• Gattaca
  Gattaca
  Gattaca is a 1997 science fiction film written and directed by Andrew Niccol. It stars Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman and Jude Law with supporting roles played by Loren Dean, Ernest Borgnine, Gore Vidal and Alan Arkin....
  
  
• The Scorpion King
  The Scorpion King
  The Scorpion King is a 2002 American action film directed by Chuck Russell, starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Kelly Hu, Grant Heslov, and Michael Clarke Duncan...
  
  
• Dogma
  Dogma (film)
  Dogma is a 1999 American adventure fantasy comedy film written and directed by Kevin Smith, who also stars in the film along with an ensemble cast that includes Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Linda Fiorentino, Alan Rickman, Bud Cort, Salma Hayek, Chris Rock, Jason Lee, George Carlin, Janeane Garofalo,...
  
  
• Charlie's Angels
  Charlie's Angels (film)
  Charlie's Angels is a 2000 American action comedy film directed by McG, starring Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, and Lucy Liu as three women working for a private investigation agency...
  
  
• 50 First Dates
  50 First Dates
  50 First Dates is a 2004 American romantic comedy film directed by Peter Segal and written by George Wing. The film stars Adam Sandler as a woman-chasing veterinarian and Drew Barrymore as an amnesiac, along with Rob Schneider, Sean Astin, Lusia Strus, Blake Clark, and Dan Aykroyd.Most of the film...
  
  
• Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
  Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
  Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, or simply Anchorman, is a 2004 American comedy film, directed by Adam McKay and starring Will Ferrell. The film, which was also written by Ferrell and McKay, is a tongue-in-cheek take on the culture of the 1970s, particularly the then-new Action News format...
  
  
• Pineapple Express
  Pineapple Express (film)
  Pineapple Express is a 2008 American stoner action comedy directed by David Gordon Green, written by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg and starring Rogen and James Franco. Producer Judd Apatow, who previously worked with Rogen and Goldberg on Knocked Up and Superbad, assisted in developing the story,...
  
  
• Zack and Miri Make a Porno
  Zack and Miri Make a Porno
  Zack and Miri Make a Porno is a 2008 romantic comedy film written and directed by Kevin Smith, distributed by The Weinstein Company, and starring Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks. It is Smith's second film not to be set within the View Askewniverse and the first not set in New Jersey. It was...
  
  
• He's Just Not That Into You
  He's Just Not That into You (film)
  He's Just Not That Into You is a 2009 American romantic comedy film directed by Ken Kwapis, based on the self-help book of the same name by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo, which in turn was inspired by a line of dialogue in Sex and the City...
  
  
• Whip It

Darren Michaels is a member of the International Cinematographers Guild

International Cinematographers Guild

About the International Cinematographers Guild:The International Cinematographers Guild represents approximately 6,000 members who work throughout the United States, Canada and the rest of the world in film and television as Directors of Photography, Camera Operators, Visual Effects Supervisors,...

, as well as a member of Society of Motion Picture Still Photographers (S.M.P.S.P.). He is also a recipient of the Hollywood Reporter's Key Art Award, and in 2011 was nominated by The International Cinematographer's Guild for Motion Picture Still Photographer of the Year.