Michael Hatzer
Personal Info
Known for
Editing
Gender
Male
Michael Hatzer
Biography
Michael Hatzer is among some of the most accomplished DI colorists in Hollywood and has been color timing and digital grading motion picture images for over twenty-five years. Long before digital intermediate grading, Hatzer photo-chemically timed over one-hundred and twenty-five features, hundreds of trailers, and hundreds of thousands of feet of dailies at Deluxe Film Laboratories in Hollywood. Joining EFILM in 2005, he transitioned seamlessly into the early days of DI. Today, he works at Picture Shop as a Supervising Digital Colorist where he heads up his color design team digitally grading dailies, trailers, broadcast TV and feature films. Hatzer has worked alongside many of the top Academy Award winning directors and cinematographers of our time such as Steven Spielberg, Alejando Gonzalez Inarritu, Joel and Ethan Coen, Sam Mendes, Janusz Kaminski, Emmauel Lubezki, Roger Deakins, John Toll and Dion Beebe. He is also an Associate Member of the American Society of Cinematographers.
Known For
Crew
Matchbox
Digital Colorist
(2026)
The Dish
Digital Colorist
(2026)
Flowervale Street
Digital Intermediate Colorist
(2025)
Himmeltelefonen
Digital Intermediate Colorist
(2024)
The Watchers
Digital Colorist
(2024)
Trap
Digital Colorist
(2024)
Afraid
Digital Colorist
(2024)
Jimmy
Colorist
(2024)
The Piano Lesson
Digital Colorist
(2024)
Sasquatch Sunset
Digital Colorist
(2024)
Mother, Couch
Digital Colorist
(2023)
Knock at the Cabin
Digital Colorist
(2023)
The Little Mermaid
Digital Intermediate Colorist
(2023)
Reptile
Digital Colorist
(2023)
Sharper
Digital Colorist
(2022)
The Fabelmans
Digital Intermediate Colorist
(2022)
Roving Woman
Colorist
(2022)
All the Old Knives
Digital Colorist
(2021)
West Side Story
Digital Colorist
(2021)
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Digital Colorist
(2021)
Old
Digital Colorist
(2021)
American Dream
Digital Colorist
(2020)
The Boys in the Band
Digital Colorist
(2020)
Greenland
Digital Colorist
(2020)
The Call of the Wild
Digital Colorist
(2020)
The Turning
Digital Colorist
(2020)
The Banker
Digital Colorist
(2020)
Brahms: The Boy II
Colorist
(2019)
Dark Phoenix
Digital Colorist
(2019)
Aladdin
Digital Colorist
(2019)
Us
Digital Colorist
(2019)
What Men Want
Digital Colorist
(2019)
Glass
Digital Colorist
(2019)
Bertin
Digital Colorist
(2018)
Ready Player One
Digital Intermediate Colorist
(2018)
Mary Poppins Returns
Digital Intermediate Colorist
(2018)
Gringo
Digital Colorist
(2017)
The Post
Digital Colorist
(2017)
Split
Digital Colorist
(2017)
Molly's Game
Digital Colorist
(2017)
Ghost in the Shell
Digital Colorist
(2016)
The BFG
Digital Colorist
(2016)
The Girl on the Train
Digital Colorist
(2016)
Office Christmas Party
Digital Colorist
(2016)
Fences
Digital Colorist
(2016)
Rules Don't Apply
Digital Colorist
(2016)
A Beautiful Day
Digital Colorist
(2016)
The Huntsman: Winter's War
Digital Colorist
(2016)
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
Digital Colorist
(2016)
The Hollars
Digital Colorist
(2015)
Danny Collins
Digital Colorist
(2015)
Pitch Perfect 2
Digital Colorist
(2015)
Bridge of Spies
Digital Colorist
(2015)
Burnt
Digital Colorist
(2015)
The Revenant
Digital Intermediate Colorist
(2015)
Fantastic Four
Digital Colorist
(2015)
Terminator Genisys
Digital Colorist
(2015)
Poltergeist
Digital Colorist
(2015)
Little Boy
Digital Colorist
(2015)
Spy
Digital Colorist
(2014)
Godzilla
Digital Intermediate Colorist
(2014)
The Judge
Digital Colorist
(2014)
Draft Day
Digital Colorist
(2014)
Clear History
Digital Colorist
(2013)
Gangster Squad
Digital Intermediate Colorist
(2013)
Delivery Man
Digital Colorist
(2013)
August: Osage County
Digital Colorist
(2013)
The Heat
Digital Colorist
(2013)
Warm Bodies
Digital Colorist
(2012)
The Hunger Games
Digital Colorist
(2012)
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
Digital Colorist
(2012)
Lincoln
Digital Colorist
(2012)
Lawless
Digital Colorist
(2012)
The Zen of Bennett
Digital Colorist
(2012)
Game Change
Digital Colorist
(2012)
Butter
Digital Colorist
(2011)
The Adjustment Bureau
Digital Intermediate Colorist
(2011)
Green Lantern
Digital Intermediate Colorist
(2011)
Dolphin Tale
Digital Intermediate Colorist
(2011)
A Better Life
Digital Intermediate Colorist
(2011)
Scream 4
Digital Intermediate Colorist
(2011)
Limitless
Digital Intermediate Colorist
(2010)
Devil
Digital Intermediate Colorist
(2010)
Trust
Digital Intermediate Colorist
(2010)
Our Family Wedding
Digital Intermediate Colorist
(2010)
Extraordinary Measures
Digital Colorist
(2010)
The Company Men
Digital Colorist
(2009)
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Digital Intermediate Colorist
(2009)
The Road
Digital Intermediate Colorist
(2009)
The Blind Side
Digital Colorist
(2009)
2012
Digital Colorist
(2009)
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
Digital Intermediate Colorist
(2009)
Whip It
Digital Intermediate Colorist
(2009)
A Serious Man
Colorist
(2009)
Capitalism: A Love Story
Digital Intermediate Colorist
(2009)
9
Digital Intermediate Colorist
(2009)
Crossing Over
Digital Intermediate Colorist
(2008)
Death Race
Digital Intermediate Colorist
(2008)
Revolutionary Road
Digital Intermediate Colorist
(2008)
Christmas Cottage
Digital Intermediate Colorist
(2008)
Doubt
Digital Intermediate Colorist
(2008)
Milk
Digital Intermediate Colorist
(2008)
The Women
Digital Intermediate Colorist
(2008)
Sex and the City
Digital Intermediate Colorist
(2008)
Four Christmases
Digital Intermediate Colorist
(2008)
Brothel
Digital Colorist
(2008)
Semi-Pro
Digital Intermediate Colorist
(2008)
The Replacement Child
Digital Color Timer
(2008)
Tortilla Heaven
Digital Color Timer
(2007)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Digital Intermediate Colorist
(2007)
No Country for Old Men
Digital Color Timer
(2007)
Borderland
Digital Intermediate Colorist
(2007)
The Golden Compass
Digital Intermediate Colorist
(2007)
The Comebacks
Digital Colorist
(2007)
Christmas Is Here Again
Color Timer
(2007)
The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising
Digital Intermediate Colorist
(2007)
In the Valley of Elah
Digital Intermediate Colorist
(2007)
Dragon Wars: D-War
Colorist
(2007)
Fracture
Digital Intermediate Colorist
(2007)
In the Wall
Digital Colorist
(2007)
Seraphim Falls
Color Timer
(2006)
Final Destination 3
Color Timer
(2006)
The Hills Have Eyes
Color Timer
(2006)
Cut Off
Color Timer
(2006)
George Washington: We Fight to be Free
Digital Colorist
(2006)
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
Digital Color Timer
(2006)
Orchids
Digital Colorist
(2006)
Employee of the Month
Digital Color Timer
(2005)
Guess Who
Color Timer
(2005)
Elizabethtown
Color Timer
(2005)
Assault on Precinct 13
Color Timer
(2005)
Stealth
Color Timer
(2005)
Æon Flux
Color Timer
(2005)
Fun with Dick and Jane
Color Timer
(2004)
The Clearing
Color Timer
(2004)
Coast to Coast
Color Timer
(2004)
Club Dread
Color Timer
(2004)
The Punisher
Color Timer
(2004)
Madhouse
Color Timer
(2004)
The Whole Ten Yards
Color Timer
(2004)
Garden State
Color Timer
(2003)
Final Destination 2
Color Timer
(2003)
Elf
Color Timer
(2002)
Equilibrium
Color Timer
(2002)
Maid in Manhattan
Color Timer
(2002)
Below
Color Timer
(2001)
The Center of the World
Color Timer
(2000)
Dreamers
Color Timer
(1999)
Kate's Addiction
Color Timer
(1993)
Schindler's List
Digital Colorist
(1993)
Praying with Anger
Digital Colorist