Biography
Vittorio Storaro, A.S.C., A.I.C. (born 24 June 1940) is an Italian cinematographer widely recognized as one of the best and most influential in Cinema history, for his work on numerous classic films including The Conformist, Apocalypse Now, and The Last Emperor. In the course of over fifty years, he has collaborated with directors such as Bernardo Bertolucci, Francis Ford Coppola, Warren Beatty, Woody Allen and Carlos Saura. He has received three Academy Awards for Best Cinematography for the films Apocalypse Now (1979), Reds (1981), and The Last Emperor (1987), and is one of three living persons who has won the award three times, the others being Robert Richardson and Emmanuel Lubezki. Description above from the Wikipedia article Vittorio Storaro, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Awards & recognition
- European Film Award — Best Cinematographer · 2000
- BAFTA Award — Best Cinematography · 1991
- Academy Award — Best Cinematography · 1988
- Academy Award — Best Cinematography · 1982
- Academy Award — Best Cinematography · 1980
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- Academy Awards
- Cinearti La chioma di Berenice Prize
- David di Donatello — Best Cinematography
- European Film Award — Best Cinematographer · 2000 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Cinematography · 1991 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Cinematography · 1988 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Cinematography · 1982 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Cinematography · 1980 · nominated
Filmography40 titles
Apocalypse Now
Light Keeps Me Company
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
1900
The Last Emperor
The Conformist
Side by Side
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Before the Revolution
Ladyhawke
The Spider's Stratagem
Close Encounters with Vilmos Zsigmond
Reds
Last Tango in Paris
Wagner
Tucker: The Man and His Dream
The Fifth Cord
A Rainy Day in New York
The Sheltering Sky
Attack of the Normans
Wonder Wheel
Café Society
Identikit
Bulworth
Little Buddha
Footprints on the Moon
Coup de Chance
The King of All the World
Dick Tracy
New York Stories
Rifkin's Festival
Agatha
One from the Heart
Our Husbands
No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos
Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist
Exorcist: The Beginning
Ishtar
Picking Up the Pieces