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name: "Michael Goi"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/michael-goi"
fi1m_id: "michael-goi"
imdb_id: "nm0003922"
tmdb_id: 236592
wikidata_id: "Q15451364"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "4 March 1959"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-09-23T15:05:05.008948+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Michael Goi

## Identity

Michael Goi

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/michael-goi
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** michael-goi
- **IMDb ID:** nm0003922
- **TMDB ID:** 236592
- **Wikidata ID:** Q15451364
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Goi, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15451364, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003922/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/236592

Director. Born 4 March 1959 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 4 March 1959, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- **Active:** 2008–2012
- **Also known as:** Mike Goi , Michael K. Goi, Michael Goi, ASC
- **Frequently works with:** [Elodie Keene](https://film.one/person/elodie-keene.md), [Connie Britton](https://film.one/person/connie-britton.md), [Dan Lerner](https://film.one/person/dan-lerner.md), [Kevin Dowling](https://film.one/person/kevin-dowling.md), [Lesli Linka Glatter](https://film.one/person/lesli-linka-glatter.md), [Paris Barclay](https://film.one/person/paris-barclay.md)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Goi, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15451364, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003922/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/236592

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*The Mentalist*](https://film.one/tv/the-mentalist.md) (71)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Michael Goi is an American cinematographer and director. Born in Chicago, Illinois, he studied at Columbia College Chicago and began his career working in documentaries and commercials before relocating to Los Angeles in 1991.

As a cinematographer he has contributed to numerous television series, including *The Mentalist* (2008) and *American Horror Story* (2011), the latter in collaboration with Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk. He has also directed episodes of *American Horror Story* and other series such as *The Rookie* (2018) and *Chilling Adventures of Sabrina* (2018), as well as the feature film *Megan Is Missing* (2011). Goi is a past president of the American Society of Cinematographers and a four-time Primetime Emmy Award nominee for his cinematography.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, colum.edu.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Mentalist* (2008), Fi1m 71, Cinematography — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-mentalist.md)

## Complete filmography (56)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Day of a Lion* (2025), Thanks
- *Doc* (2025), series, Director
- *Brilliant Minds* (2024), series, Director
- *Avatar: The Last Airbender* (2024), series, Director, Executive Producer, Director of Photography
- *The Rookie: Feds* (2022), series, Director, Executive Producer
- *Big Sky* (2020), series, Director
- *Words on Bathroom Walls* (2020), Director of Photography
- *Mary* (2019), Director of Photography, Director
- *Swamp Thing* (2019), series, Director
- *Chilling Adventures of Sabrina* (2018), series, Director
- *The Rookie* (2018), series, Director
- *Charmed* (2018), series, Director
- *The Gifted* (2017), series, Director
- *Riverdale* (2017), series, Director
- *Falling Water* (2016), series, Director
- *American Virgin* (2015), Associate Producer
- *Empire* (2015), series, Director
- *The Town that Dreaded Sundown* (2014), Director of Photography
- *Frozen* (2013), Thanks — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/frozen.md)
- *Sleepy Hollow* (2013), series, Director
- *Nashville* (2012), series, Director
- *American Horror Story* (2011), series, Director of Photography, Director
- *Megan Is Missing* (2011), Director, Writer, Co-Producer, Editor
- *Expecting Mary* (2010), Director of Photography
- *Pretty Little Liars* (2010), series, Director
- *The Mentalist* (2008), series, Director of Photography — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-mentalist.md)
- *Witless Protection* (2008), Director of Photography
- *Lime Salted Love* (2007), Executive Producer
- *Fingerprints* (2006), Director of Photography
- *Funky Monkey* (2004), Cinematography, Director of Photography
- *Judas* (2004), Director of Photography
- *Call Waiting* (2004), Director of Photography
- *The Kids Who Saved Summer* (2004), Director of Photography
- *Red Water* (2003), Director of Photography
- *Christmas Rush* (2002), Director of Photography
- *Sexy Urban Legends* (2002), Director
- *The Bike Squad* (2002), Director of Photography
- *Welcome to Death Row* (2001), Director of Photography
- *What Matters Most* (2001), Director of Photography
- *Sexy Urban Legends* (2001), series, Director
- *Who Killed Atlanta's Children?* (2000), Director of Photography
- *Fatal Blade* (2000), Director of Photography
- *Forbidden Sins* (1999), Director of Photography
- *The Awakening of Gabriella* (1999), Director of Photography
- *The Pleasure Zone* (1999), series, Director of Photography
- *Nightcap* (1999), series, Director of Photography
- *Voyeur* (1999), Writer, Director
- *Hundred Percent* (1998), Director of Photography
- *Deadlock: A Passion for Murder* (1997), Director of Photography
- *Evil Obsession* (1996), Director of Photography
- *Sword of Honor* (1996), as Ballistics Man
- *Hollywood Hills 90028* (1994), Cinematography
- *Hellmaster* (1992), Director of Photography
- *Moonstalker* (1989), Director of Photography
- *A Hunger Artist* (1982), Director of Photography
- *The Music of Erich Zann* (1980), Director of Photography

## Gallery

- ![Michael Goi](https://film.one/media/person/1292389/gallery-29b129a70672.png) Michael Goi — SWinxy, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Michael_Goi_2023.png/1280px-Michael_Goi_2023.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Michael Goi](https://film.one/media/person/1292389/gallery-3e82d63e4f26.jpg) Michael Goi — Image via TMDB

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