Michael W. Watkins is an American cinematographer, television director and television producer. He has worked on Smallville, Boomtown The X-Files, and Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Monk, Law & Order, No Ordinary Family, Warehouse 13 and several other film and television series. he also directed the made for TV movies Deadlocked, The Rockford Files, as well as the 2004 TV minseries 5ive Days to Midnight. Watkins has won two Primetime Emmy Awards for his cinematography work on Quantum Leap. As a producer, Watkins also produced episodes of Brooklyn South, Smallville, The X-Files, Prison Break, Blacklist, as well as the 2001 made-for-TV movie Semper Fi. Watkins is a member of the American Society of Cinematographers