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| birth_place = Rome, ItalyItalians>Italian| education = Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia| occupation = Cinematographer| years_active = 1960–present| employer = | organization = *American Society of Cinematographers

• Associazione Italiana Autori della Fotografia Cinematografica| known_for = The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)
• The Conformist (1970)
• Last Tango in Paris (1972)
• 1900 (1976)
• Apocalypse Now (1979)
• Reds (1981)
• The Last Emperor (1987)
• Dick Tracy (1990)
• Café Society (2016)
• Wonder Wheel (2017)

}}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.

Early life

(File:Vittorio Storaro Camerimage.jpg|thumb|Storaro in Camerimage Festival 23 in 2015, talking about how color affects people physically and psychologically)Storaro was born in Rome. The son of a film projectionist, Storaro began studying photography at the age of 11. He went on to formal cinematography studies at the national Italian film school, Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, when he was 18.WEB,weblink Back in Time: Vittorio Storaro AIC, ASC / The Early Life of Mohammed, 27 May 2015, British Cinematographer, 23 April 2019,

Career

Storaro is considered to be one of the greatest and most influential cinematographers of all time.WEB, Kay, Jeremy, And the 11 most influential cinematographers of all time are...,weblink Screen Daily, 16 October 2003, 23 April 2019, NEWS,weblink Cinematographer Vittorio Storaro Warns of "Major Problem" in the Field, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 June 2016, 22 April 2019, NEWS,weblink The 10 Most Visually Stunning Movies Shot by Vittorio Storaro, Taste of Cinema - Movie Reviews and Classic Movie Lists, 15 September 2015, 23 April 2019, NEWS,weblink Cinematographer Vittorio Storaro reveals his inspiration, Jones, Jonathan, 9 July 2003, The Guardian, 0261-3077, 900948621, He has worked with many important film directors, in particular Bernardo Bertolucci, with whom he has had a long collaboration.WEB, Pizzello, Stephen, Storaro and Bertolucci Celebrated at Milan International Film Festival,weblink American Society of Cinematographers, 6 July 2018, 23 April 2019, His 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.MAGAZINE,weblink Cinematographer Vittorio Storaro, ASC, AIC personally details the richly hued artistic strategy he created to shoot Woody Allen's period drama., American Cinematographer, 30 November 2017, He first worked with Bertolucci on The Conformist (1970). Set in fascist Italy, the film has been described as a "visual masterpiece".WEB, Berardinelli, James, 1994, Review: The Conformist, 23 April 2019,weblink ReelViews, 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.NEWS, Gallant, Chris, Where to begin with giallo,weblink British Film Institute, BFI, 7 June 2018, 23 April 2019, 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.MAGAZINE,weblink Pizzello, Stephen, Flashback: Apocalypse Now, American Cinematographer, 24 August 2017, Apocalypse Now earned Storaro his first Academy Award.WEB,weblink Mighty Tome: Vittorio Storaro AIC ASC / The Art of Cinematography, 3 June 2015, British Cinematographer, 23 April 2019, He worked with Warren Beatty for the first time on Reds (1981), and ended up winning his second Academy Award.NEWS,weblink Cinematographer Vittorio Storaro: Master of Lights and Colors, 20 September 2016, 23 April 2019, 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.MAGAZINE, Bob Fisher,weblink Vittorio Storaro: Maestro of Light, 2004, International Cinematographers Guild, In 2002, Storaro completed the first in a series of books that articulate his philosophy of cinematography.NEWS,weblink Jones, Jonathan, Painting with light, The Guardian, 9 July 2003, 23 April 2019, 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.NEWS, Adetunji, Jo, Verdi's Rigoletto given 'cinematic' makeover for BBC,weblink The Guardian, 25 July 2010, 23 April 2019, Woody Allen's Café Society (2016) was the first film that Storaro shot digitally; he used the Sony F65 camera.WEB, Giardina, Carolyn, Cinematographer Vittorio Storaro on Filming 'Cafe Society' Digitally: "You Can't Stop Progress",weblink The Hollywood Reporter, 15 July 2016, 23 April 2019, In 2017, Storaro was honored with the George Eastman Award.NEWS,weblink Vittorio Storaro, ASC, AIC Honored with George Eastman Award, American Society of Cinematographers, 21 March 2017, 22 April 2019, 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.NEWS, Chris O'Falt, 13 October 2017,weblink Digital Cinematography Smackdown: Vittorio Storaro and Ed Lachman Debate, With Love, IndieWire, 23 April 2019, His other film credits include 1900, Last Tango in Paris, (Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist), One from the Heart, Bulworth, The Sheltering Sky, (Tucker: The Man and His Dream), 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.NEWS,weblink Joe Foster, The remarkable rise of the Univisium 2:1 aspect ratio, RedSharkNews, 24 October 2017, 23 April 2019, 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."MAGAZINE, Kees van Oostrum,weblink President's Desk: Men in White Suits - The American Society of Cinematographers, American Cinematographer, 2 January 2018,

Filmography

Short film{| class"wikitable"

! Year! Title! Director! Notes| 1961| Etruscologia| Giancarlo Romitelli|| 1963| Un Delitto| Luigi Bazzoni| 1966| L'urlo Camillo Bazzoni| Also writer| Rapporto segreto|| Il Labirinto| Silvio Maestranzi| Documentary short| Sortilegio Luigi Bazzoni|| Sirtaki|| 1982| Arlecchino| Giuliano Montaldo|| 1989| Life without Zoe| Francis Ford Coppola| Segment of New York Stories| 2005| Ciro| Stefano Veneruso| Segment of All the Invisible Children">

Feature film{| class"wikitable"

! Year! Title! Director! Notes| 1962| Attack of the Normans| Giuseppe Vari| With Marco Scarpelli 1969| Giovinezza giovinezzaFranco Rossi (director)>Franco Rossi|| Delitto al circolo del tennis| Franco Rossetti| 1970| The Bird with the Crystal Plumage| Dario Argento|The Conformist (film)>The Conformist Bernardo Bertolucci|| The Spider's Stratagem| With Franco Di Giacomo1971| The Fifth Cord| Luigi Bazzoni|'Tis Pity She's a Whore (film)>'Tis Pity She's a Whore| Giuseppe Patroni Griffi|| 1972| Last Tango in Paris| Bernardo Bertolucci| 1973Malicious (1973 film)>Malicious| Salvatore Samperi|| Brothers Blue| Luigi Bazzoni|| Corpo d'amore| Fabio Carpi|Giordano Bruno (film)>Revolt of the City| Giuliano Montaldo|| 1974Identikit (film)>Identikit| Giuseppe Patroni Griffi| 1975Footprints on the Moon (1975 film)>Footprints on the Moon| Luigi BazzoniMario Fanelli|| Orlando Furioso| Luca Ronconi| 19761900 (film)>1900| Bernardo Bertolucci|Submission (1976 film)>Submission| Salvatore Samperi| 1979Agatha (film)>Agatha| Michael Apted|| Apocalypse Now| Francis Ford Coppola| La Luna (1979 film)>Luna| Bernardo Bertolucci|| 1981Reds (film)>Reds| Warren Beatty| | 1982| One from the Heart| Francis Ford Coppola| With Ronald Víctor García| 1985Ladyhawke (film)>Ladyhawke| Richard Donner| 1987Ishtar (film)>Ishtar| Elaine May|| The Last Emperor| Bernardo Bertolucci| | 1988| (Tucker: The Man and His Dream)| Francis Ford Coppola| 1990Dick Tracy (1990 film)>Dick Tracy| Warren Beatty|The Sheltering Sky (film)>The Sheltering Sky| Bernardo Bertolucci| | 1992| Tosca| Brian Large|| 1993| Little Buddha| Bernardo Bertolucci|| 1996Taxi (1996 film)>Taxi| Carlos Saura| 1998| Bulworth| Warren Beatty|Tango (1998 film)>Tango Carlos Saura|| 1999| Goya in Bordeaux| 2000Mirka (film)>Mirka| Rachid Benhadj|Picking Up the Pieces (film)>Picking Up the Pieces Alfonso Arau| 2004| Zapata - El sueño del héroe|| (Exorcist: The Beginning)| Renny Harlin|| 2005| (Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist)| 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(Muhammad: The Messenger of God (film)>Muhammad: The Messenger of God)| Majid Majidi|| 2016Café Society (2016 film)>Café Society Woody Allen|| 2017Wonder Wheel (film)>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|| 2024| Bach| Carlos Saura|">

Documentary film{| class"wikitable"

! Year! Title! Director 1994| Roma Imago Urbis: Parte II - L'immortalità Luigi Bazzoni| Roma Imago Urbis: Parte I - Il mito| Roma Imago Urbis: Parte V - I volti| Roma Imago Urbis: Parte III - Gli acquedotti| Roma Imago Urbis: Parte VI - Le gesta| 1995Flamenco (1995 film)>Flamenco Carlos Saura| 2010| Flamenco Flamenco

Television

TV series{| class="wikitable"! Year! Title! Director| 1971Eneide (TV serial)>EneideFranco Rossi (director)>Franco RossiMiniseries{| class="wikitable"! Year! Title! Director! Notes| 1974| Orlando furioso| Luca Ronconi| With Arturo Zavattini| 1983Wagner (film)>WagnerTony Palmer (director)>Tony Palmer|| 1986Peter the Great (miniseries)>Peter the Great| Marvin J. ChomskyLawrence Schiller|| 2000| Frank Herbert's DuneJohn Harrison (director)>John Harrison|TV movies{| class="wikitable"! Year! Title! Director! Notes| 1992| Tosca: In the Settings and at the Times of Tosca| Brian Large|| 1992| Writing with Light: Vittorio Storaro| David M. Thompson| Documentary film| 2000| La Traviata| Pierre Cavassilas|| 2007Caravaggio (2007 film)>Caravaggio| Angelo Longoni|| 2010| Rigoletto a Mantova| Pierre Cavassilas|

Awards and nominations

References

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Further reading

• Masters of Light - Conversations with cinematographers (1984) Schaefer, S & Salvato, L., {{ISBN|0-520-05336-2}}
• Writer of Light: The Cinematography of Vittorio Storaro, ASC, AIC (2000) Zone, R., {{ISBN|0-935578-18-8}}
• Vittorio Storaro: Writing with Light: Volume 1: The Light (2002) Storaro, V., {{ISBN|1-931788-03-0}}

External links

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• {{IMDb name|id=0005886|name=Vittorio Storaro}}
• weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20050221085534weblink">International Cinematographers Guild Interview
• Vittorio Storaro Website (Italian or English)

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