Vittorio Storaro
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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.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name=":1">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=":2">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=":3">Template:Cite news</ref>
Over the course of 50 years, he has collaborated with directors like Bernardo Bertolucci,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Francis Ford Coppola, Warren Beatty, Woody Allen, and Carlos Saura.
Storaro is one of three living people to have won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography three times, a position he shares with Robert Richardson and Emmanuel Lubezki.
Early life and education
Born in Rome, Storaro is the son of a film projectionist.
He began studying photography at the age of 11, and at the age of 18, he went on to formal cinematography studies at the national Italian film school, Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Career
Storaro's philosophy is largely inspired by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's theory of colors, which focuses in part on the psychological effects that different colors have and the way in which colors influence our perceptions of different situations.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
He first worked with Bernardo Bertolucci on The Conformist (1970).<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He then worked on Dario Argento's first directorial feature The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970), which is considered a landmark in the giallo genre.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
With Francis Ford Coppola, Storaro made his American film debut with Apocalypse Now (1979),<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> which earned him his first Academy Award for Best Cinematography.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Storaro went to win two more Academy Awards in the 1980s, one with Warren Beatty's Reds (1981)<ref name=italoamericano>Template:Cite news</ref> and one for Bertolucci's The Last Emperor (1987).<ref name=italoamericano/><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
In 2002, Storaro completed the first in a series of books that articulate his philosophy of cinematography.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
He was the cinematographer for a BBC co-production with Italian broadcaster RAI of Verdi's Rigoletto over two nights on the weekend of 4 and 5 September 2010.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Though working primarily with film cameras, Woody Allen's feature Café Society (2016) was Storaro's first project to be shot digitally.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
In 2017, Storaro was honored with the George Eastman Award.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The same year he also attended the New York Film Festival at which he debated with Edward Lachman on cinematography and its transition from film to digital.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
With his son Fabrizio, he created the Univisium format system to unify all future theatrical and television movies into one respective aspect ratio of 2.00:1.<ref name=":4">Template:Cite news</ref> As of 2023, this unification has not happened, and the universal replacement of 4:3 televisions by large, wide-screen displays greatly reduces the need to modify scope-ratio films for home theater presentation.
Personal life
Storaro is known for stylish, fastidious, and flamboyant personal fashion. Francis Ford Coppola once noted, "Vittorio is the only man I ever knew that could fall off a ladder in a white suit, into the mud, and not get dirty."<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
Filmography
Feature film
Documentary film
| Year | Title | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Roma imago urbis | Luigi Bazzoni |
| 1995 | Flamenco | Carlos Saura |
| 2010 | Flamenco Flamenco |
Television
| Year | Title | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 1971 | Eneide | Franco Rossi |
Miniseries
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | Orlando Furioso | Luca Ronconi | With Arturo Zavattini |
| 1983 | Wagner | Tony Palmer | |
| 1986 | Peter the Great | Marvin J. Chomsky Lawrence Schiller |
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| 2000 | Frank Herbert's Dune | John Harrison | |
| 2007 | Caravaggio | Angelo Longoni |
TV movies
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
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| 1992 | Tosca: In the Settings and at the Times of Tosca | Brian Large | |
| Writing with Light: Vittorio Storaro | David M. Thompson | Documentary film | |
| 2000 | La traviata | Pierre Cavassilas | |
| 2010 | Rigoletto a Mantova |
Awards and nominations
| Year | Category | Title | Result | Ref. |
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| 1980 | Best Cinematography | Apocalypse Now | Template:Won | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 1982 | Reds | Template:Won | ||
| 1988 | The Last Emperor | Template:Won | ||
| 1991 | Dick Tracy | Template:Nom |
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| 1980 | Best Cinematography | Apocalypse Now | Template:Nom | <ref name="BAFTA1979">
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| 1983 | Reds | Template:Nom | <ref name="BAFTA1982">Template:Cite web</ref> | |
| 1989 | The Last Emperor | Template:Nom | <ref name="BAFTA1988">
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| 1991 | The Sheltering Sky | Template:Won | <ref name="BAFTA1990">Template:Cite web</ref> |
American Society of Cinematographers
| Year | Category | Title | Result |
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| 1988 | Outstanding Cinematography | The Last Emperor | Template:Nom |
| 1991 | Dick Tracy | Template:Nom | |
| 2001 | Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in a Limited Series | Dune | Template:Nom |
| Lifetime Achievement Award | Template:Won | ||
| Year | Category | Title | Result | Ref. |
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| 2000 | Best Cinematography | Goya en Burdeos | Template:Won | <ref name="EuropeanFilmAwards2000">
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| Year | Category | Title | Result |
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| 1986 | Best Cinematography for a Miniseries or Special | Peter the Great | Template:Nom |
| 2001 | Frank Herbert's Dune | Template:Won |
| Year | Category | Title | Result | Ref. |
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| 1998 | Technical Grand Prize | Tango, no me dejes nunca | Template:Won | <ref name="Cannes-Tango">
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International Film Festival of India
| Year | Category | Result | Ref. |
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| 2020 | Lifetime Achievement Award | Template:Won | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
British Society of Cinematographers
| Year | Category | Title | Result |
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| 1979 | Best Cinematography | Apocalypse Now | Template:Nom |
| 1988 | The Last Emperor | Template:Won | |
| 1990 | Dick Tracy | Template:Nom |
National Society of Film Critics
| Year | Category | Title | Result |
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| 1972 | Best Cinematography | The Conformist | Template:Won |
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
| Year | Category | Title | Result |
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| 1987 | Best Cinematography | The Sheltering Sky | Template:Won |
| 1990 | The Last Emperor | Template:Won |
Los Angeles Film Critics Association
| Year | Category | Title | Result |
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| 1981 | Best Cinematography | Reds | Template:Won |
| 1988 | The Last Emperor | Template:Won |
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| 2017 | Lifetime Achievement Award | Template:Won |
| Year | Category | Title | Result |
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| 1996 | Best Cinematography | Flamenco (de Carlos Saura) | Template:Nom |
| 1999 | Tango, no me dejes nunca | Template:Nom | |
| 2000 | Goya en Burdeos | Template:Won |
References
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Further reading
- Masters of Light - Conversations with cinematographers (1984) Schaefer, S & Salvato, L., Template:ISBN
- Writer of Light: The Cinematography of Vittorio Storaro, ASC, AIC (2000) Zone, R., Template:ISBN
- Vittorio Storaro: Writing with Light: Volume 1: The Light (2002) Storaro, V., Template:ISBN
External links
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