He began his career as director of photography on a short horror film directed by John Strysik,
The Music of Erich Zann, in 1980; and then on the comedy
The Blues Brothers, as a production assistant. He went on to serve as cinematographer on film and television series, such as:
Moonstalker,
How U Like Me Now,
What Matters Most,
Call Waiting,
Funky Monkey,
Cloud 9,
Witness Protection,
My Name is Earl,
The Nine Lives of Chloe King,
Mr. Sunshine,
Salem and
The Town That Dreaded Sundown. Goi has written and directed three feature films during his career;
Voyeur, an action drama about a reluctant porn star and her biggest fan;
Megan Is Missing (2011), about internet predators and the disappearance of Megan Stewart (
Rachel Quinn); and
Mary, starring Gary Oldman and Emily Mortimer, on which he also served as the cinematographer.
Web Therapy Goi served as the exclusive cinematographer on
Lisa Kudrows
Web Therapy throughout the entirety of its 87-episode run.
Work with Ryan Murphy As director of photography, Goi first worked with prolific writer/producers
Ryan Murphy and
Brad Falchuk on their (with
Ian Brennan)
FOX musical comedy
Glee, in 2011, with the episode "
Asian F". That same year he also began work on the duo's new
FX series
American Horror Story. His first episode on the series was the
Murder House installment "
Rubber Man". He went on to work on Murphy's short-lived
NBC comedy
The New Normal; and the trio's 2015 horror/comedy
Scream Queens. During the
fourth season of
American Horror Story, Goi made his series directorial debut with "
Magical Thinking". He served as the series' exclusive cinematographer from
the premiere of
Asylum, until
the end of the fifth season. He was succeeded in the capacity by
Breaking Bads
Nelson Cragg, with the commencement of
the sixth year. == American Society of Cinematographers ==