Background
Sakharov was born in Tashkent, former Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics and lived there the first seven years of his life.
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When he turned eight, Sakharov was moved to Moscow. He spent the next fourteen years of his life there. Sakharov moved to the United States in 1981, settling in the New York City area.
He became a naturalized United States citizen in 1988.
In 1985, Sakharov entered the United States. film scene as director of The Russian Touch—a topical documentary about the Russian people comprising the third wave of immigration to the United States. In 1992, he directed a silent short film Pausa—a visual meditation dedicated to the memory of the great poet of cinema Andrei Tarkovsky.
Sakharov began sharing the responsibilities of a lighting cameraman in 1985 in the New York industrial video scene, eventually progressing to shooting music videos, commercials, narrative films. He served as Director of Photography on numerous feature films, as well as a formidable number of programs for network television and premium cable, most notably for Home Box Office with such projects as The Sopranos (38 episodes), Rome (9 episodes), Sex and The City, Game of Thrones.
Since 2006 Sakharov has worked primarily (and from 2010 exclusively) as a television director, with credits including:
Boardwalk Empire
Game of Thrones
Rome
Dexter
Rubicon
Brotherhood
The Sopranos (2nd unit director "Made in America".
"Kennedy and Heidi")
Easy Money
The Americans
Black Sails
Marco Polo.
Achievements
Membership
A former Director of Photography, he is an active member of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC). As a member of the Sopranos creative ensemble, Sakharov was honored twice (in 2002 & 2004) by the American Film Institute"s A Year of Excellence Award.
