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name: "Michael Sparber"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/michael-sparber"
fi1m_id: "michael-sparber"
tmdb_id: 1993629
roles: ["Cinematographer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-24T20:16:30.066116+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."
---

# Michael Sparber

## Identity

Michael Sparber

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/michael-sparber
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** michael-sparber
- **TMDB ID:** 1993629
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1993629

Cinematographer.

## Details

- **Work:** Cinematographer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1993629

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Cars 3*](https://film.one/film/cars-3.md) (58)

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## Biography

Michael Sparber is a lighting artist and cinematographer who worked at Pixar Animation Studios. He began his career there in the mid-2000s and contributed to numerous feature films in lighting roles.

His credits include lighting artist on *Cars* (2006), master lighting artist on *Ratatouille* (2007) and *Brave* (2012), lighting lead on *Monsters University* (2013) and *Inside Out* (2015), and co-director of photography for lighting on *Cars 3* (2017). He later worked as director of photography for lighting on the short *Float* (2019) and lighting lead on *Soul* (2020).

*Sources: pixar.fandom.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Cars 3* (2017), Fi1m 58, Cinematography, Director of Photography — [page](https://film.one/film/cars-3.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

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

- *Spellbound* (2024), as Art Direction
- *Cars 3* (2017), Director of Photography — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/cars-3.md)
- *Monsters University* (2013), Lighting Supervisor
- *Brave* (2012), Master Lighting Artist
- *Up* (2009), as Sequence Leads — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/up.md)
- *Ratatouille* (2007), Master Lighting Artist — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/film/ratatouille.md)
- *Cars* (2006), Lighting Artist

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