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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, for his work on numerous classic films including The Conformist (1970), Apocalypse Now (1979), and The Last Emperor (1987). 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, Reds (1981), and The Last Emperor, and is one of three living persons who has won the award three times, the others being Robert Richardson and Emmanuel Lubezki.
He first worked with Bertolucci on The Conformist (1970). Set in fascist Italy, the film has been described as a "visual masterpiece".
Also in 1970, he photographed The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, the directorial debut of Dario Argento and a landmark film in the giallo genre.
The first American film that Storaro worked on was Apocalypse Now (1979). Director Francis Ford Coppola gave him free rein on the film's visual look. Apocalypse Now earned Storaro his first Academy Awards.
He worked with Warren Beatty for the first time on Reds (1981), and ended up winning his second Academy Award.
Storaro won a third Academy Award for The Last Emperor (1987), directed by Bertolucci. Three years later he received a nomination, but did not win, for the Beatty film Dick Tracy.
In 2002, Storaro completed the first in a series of books that articulate his philosophy of cinematography.
He was the cinematographer for a BBC co-production with Italian broadcaster RAI of Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto over two nights on the weekend of 4 and 5 September 2010.
Woody Allen's Café Society (2016) was the first film that Storaro shot digitally; he used the Sony F65 camera.
In 2017, Storaro was honored with the George Eastman Award. The same year he also attended the New York Film Festival at which he debated with Ed Lachman on cinematography and its transition to digital.
His other film credits include 1900, Last Tango in Paris, , One from the Heart, Bulworth, The Sheltering Sky, , Ladyhawke, Tango, and Goya en Burdeos.
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. 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.
Miniseries
British Academy Film Awards
American Society of Cinematographers
European Film Awards
Primetime Emmy Awards
Cannes Film Festival
International Film Festival of India
British Society of Cinematographers
National Society of Film Critics
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
Los Angeles Film Critics Association
George Eastman Award
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."
Filmography
Feature film
1962 Attack of the Normans Giuseppe Vari With Marco Scarpelli 1969 Giovinezza giovinezza Franco Rossi Delitto al circolo del tennis Franco Rossetti 1970 The Bird with the Crystal Plumage Dario Argento The Conformist Bernardo Bertolucci The Spider's Stratagem With Franco Di Giacomo 1971 The Fifth Cord Luigi Bazzoni 'Tis Pity She's a Whore Giuseppe Patroni Griffi 1972 Last Tango in Paris Bernardo Bertolucci 1973 Malicious Salvatore Samperi Brothers Blue Luigi Bazzoni Corpo d'amore Fabio Carpi Revolt of the City Giuliano Montaldo 1974 Identikit Giuseppe Patroni Griffi 1975 Footprints on the Moon Luigi Bazzoni
Mario Fanelli Orlando Furioso Luca Ronconi 1976 1900 Bernardo Bertolucci Submission Salvatore Samperi 1979 Agatha Michael Apted Apocalypse Now Francis Coppola Luna Bernardo Bertolucci 1981 Reds Warren Beatty 1982 One from the Heart Francis Ford Coppola With Ronald Víctor García 1985 Ladyhawke Richard Donner 1987 Ishtar Elaine May The Last Emperor Bernardo Bertolucci 1988 Francis Ford Coppola 1990 Dick Tracy Warren Beatty The Sheltering Sky Bernardo Bertolucci 1992 Tosca Brian Large 1993 Little Buddha Bernardo Bertolucci 1996 Taxi Carlos Saura 1998 Bulworth Warren Beatty Tango Carlos Saura 1999 Goya in Bordeaux 2000 Mirka Rachid Benhadj Picking Up the Pieces Alfonso Arau 2004 Renny Harlin 2005 Paul Schrader 2008 The Trick in the Sheet Alfonso Arau 2009 I, Don Giovanni Carlos Saura 2010 The Trick in the Sheet Alfonso Arau 2012 Parfums d'Alger Rachid Benhadj 2015 Majid Majidi 2016 Café Society Woody Allen 2017 Wonder Wheel 2018 A Rose in Winter Joshua Sinclair 2019 A Rainy Day in New York Woody Allen 2020 Rifkin's Festival 2021 The King of All the World Carlos Saura 2023 Coup de chance Woody Allen TBA Bach Carlos Saura
Television
1971 Eneide Franco Rossi 1974 Orlando furioso Luca Ronconi With Arturo Zavattini 1983 Wagner Tony Palmer 1986 Peter the Great Marvin J. Chomsky
Lawrence Schiller 2000 Frank Herbert's Dune John Harrison 2007 Caravaggio Angelo Longoni
Awards and nominations
Academy Awards
1980 Best Cinematography Apocalypse Now 1982 Reds 1988 The Last Emperor 1991 Dick Tracy 1980 Best Cinematography Apocalypse Now
1983 Reds
1989 The Last Emperor
1991 The Sheltering Sky
1988 Outstanding Cinematography The Last Emperor 1991 Dick Tracy 2001 Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in a Limited Series Dune Lifetime Achievement Award 2000 Best Cinematography Goya en Burdeos
1986 Best Cinematography for a Miniseries or Special Peter the Great 2001 Frank Herbert's Dune 1998 Technical Grand Prize Tango, no me dejes nunca
2020 Lifetime Achievement Award 1979 Best Cinematography Apocalypse Now 1988 The Last Emperor 1990 Dick Tracy 1972 Best Cinematography The Conformist 1987 Best Cinematography The Sheltering Sky 1990 The Last Emperor 1981 Best Cinematography Reds 1988 The Last Emperor 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award 1996 Best Cinematography Flamenco (de Carlos Saura) 1999 Tango, no me dejes nunca 2000 Goya en Burdeos
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