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name: "Zak Mulligan"
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roles: ["Cinematographer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T13:21:07.366722+00:00"
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# Zak Mulligan

Cinematographer. Born in Toledo.

## Details

- **Work:** Cinematographer
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zak_Mulligan, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q112968169, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1862511/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/862006

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*The Outsider*](https://film.one/tv/the-outsider.md) (68)

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## Biography

Zak Mulligan is an American cinematographer. He was born in Toledo, Ohio, and studied photography at Arizona State University before beginning his career in New York City.

Mulligan's feature credits include *Obselidia* (2010), for which he received the Excellence in Cinematography award at the Sundance Film Festival, and *We the Animals* (2018), which premiered at Sundance and earned him an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Cinematography. He has collaborated repeatedly with director Jeremiah Zagar. His television work includes episodes of the HBO miniseries *The Outsider* (2020) and the Netflix film *Hustle* (2022).

In 2015 Variety named him one of its '10 Cinematographers to Watch'. He was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2019 and is a member of the International Cinematographers Guild.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, theasc.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Outsider* (2020), Fi1m 68, Cinematography, Director of Photography — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-outsider.md)

## Complete filmography (14)

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

- *Killing Castro* (2026), Director of Photography
- *Happy Gilmore 2* (2025), Director of Photography
- *Hustle* (2022), Director of Photography
- *The Outsider* (2020), series, Director of Photography — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-outsider.md)
- *We the Animals* (2018), Director of Photography
- *Custody* (2016), Director of Photography
- *Bleeding Heart* (2015), Director of Photography
- *Blumenthal* (2013), Director of Photography
- *Always A Fire* (2012), Director of Photography
- *Future Weather* (2012), Director of Photography
- *I'm Not Me* (2011), Director, Writer
- *Obselidia* (2010), Director of Photography
- *Plague Town* (2009), Assistant Camera, First Assistant Camera
- *The Nightingale* (2006), Gaffer

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