Vittorio Storaro, A.S.C., A.I.C. (born 24 June 1940 in Rome) is a three-time Academy Award winning Italian cinematographer.
The son of a film projectionist, Storaro began studying photography at the age of 11, and went on to formal cinematography studies at the national Italian film school, Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, when he was 18. Working as a camera operator for many years, his first film as cinematographer was Giovinezza, Giovinez...
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Vittorio Storaro, A.S.C., A.I.C. (born 24 June 1940 in Rome) is a three-time Academy Award winning Italian cinematographer.
The son of a film projectionist, Storaro began studying photography at the age of 11, and went on to formal cinematography studies at the national Italian film school, Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, when he was 18. Working as a camera operator for many years, his first film as cinematographer was Giovinezza, Giovinezza (Youthful, Youthful) in 1968.
He has worked with many influential film directors, in particular Bernardo Bertolucci, with whom he has had a long collaboration, as well as Francis Ford Coppola and Warren Beatty.
His credits include 1900, The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris, The Last Emperor, Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist, Apocalypse Now, One From the Heart, Reds, Bulworth, The Sheltering Sky, Tucker: The Man and His Dream, Ladyhawke and Tango.
Storaro’s first mainstream American film was Apocalypse Now, directed by Francis Ford Coppola...
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