Steve Gainer


Steve Gainer, ASC ASK born in Alexandria, Louisiana, October 25, 1962, and raised in Prattville, Alabama is an American cinematographer, director, and producer. He is a member and museum curator of the American Society of Cinematographers, a member of the Directors Guild of America, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
His credits include: Schooled, The Last Laugh, Mayhem, American Girl, Sweet/Vicious, Everly, Awkward, Catch Hell, Super, ', Black Cloud, Mysterious Skin, Bully, Dirty Girl, Movie 43, and A Haunted House. From 1991-1994 he was the manager of the Paramount Pictures Corporation film lab. Since 1994, he has been director of photography on dozens of films, commercials, and music videos. In 2013 and 2015, he also directed episodes of the MTV comedy-drama series Awkward, and in 2014 won a Daytime Emmy for a PSA based on that series. In 2018 he was nominated for a Daytime Emmy for the Amazon movie | '
Gainer and his wife, Karen, were married on January 22, 2000. The couple have two children Sebastian and Lexi.