Michael R. Ciminna(I)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Additional Crew
Director

Michael R. Ciminna is an award-winning independent Writer & Director, and a member of the DGA.

Working as an Assistant Director since 2021; Michael is known for projects such as Stranger Things (2025), The Black Phone (2021), HBO's "The Outsider" (2020), Ford v Ferrari (2019), and Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)

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Awards
- 2 wins & 4 nominations total

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Known for

Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Natalia Dyer, Caleb McLaughlin, Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, Charlie Heaton, Noah Schnapp, and Gaten Matarazzo in Stranger Things (2016)

Stranger Things

8.6

TV Series

Second Unit or Assistant Director(as Mike Ciminna)

Murdaugh: Death in the Family

7.2

TV Mini Series

Additional Crew(as Michael Ciminna)

The Black Phone

6.9

Production Department

2021

The Outsider

7.6

TV Mini Series

Production Department

Credits

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Second Unit or Assistant Director

Playing Dirty
7.2
TV Mini Series
- second second assistant director
- 2026
Stranger Things
8.6
TV Series
- additional second assistant director: second unit
- additional 2nd assistant director: second unit (as Mike Ciminna)
- 2025
Ironheart
4.5
TV Mini Series
- additional second assistant director
- 2025
Jackpot!
5.8
- additional second assistant director
- 2024
Shadrach
8.3
TV Series
- first assistant director
- 2024
The Exorcist: Believer
4.8
- additional second assistant director (uncredited)
- 2023
True Lies
5.2
TV Series
- additional second assistant director (uncredited)
- 2023
Game Changer
5.3
- second assistant director
- 2022
Magnum P.I.
6.4
TV Series
- additional second assistant director
- 2022
Bad Manners
6.3
TV Movie
- 2nd 2nd assistant director
- 2020
All Alone
Short
- first assistant director
- 2019
Where Is Annie Overby?
Short
- second assistant director
- 2017
Moveless
Short
- second assistant director
- 2017