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Vittorio Storaro

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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.

Notable films

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Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.

The Last Emperor

Appears in a KinoChain journey

The Bird with the Crystal Plumage

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Apocalypse Now

Director of Photography

All the Invisible Children

Director of Photography

Frank Herbert's Dune

Director of Photography

Wagner

Director of Photography

Exorcist: The Beginning

Director of Photography

Wonder Wheel

Director of Photography

Chains

KinoChain journeys

Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.

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Italian Genre Gold

From Eurospy to spaghetti westerns and gothic horror, this chain celebrates the wild stylistic energy of Italian genre cinema in the 1960s and 1970s, with a nod...

8 films

When Studios Marry: Films Born of Corporate Chaos

From the ashes of mergers and acquisitions come some of cinema's most fascinating experiments. This chain traces how boardroom decisions shaped the art on scree...

8 films

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