Overview
Vittorio Storaro
Known For
Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
Why are we still able, today, to view images that...
Close Encounters with Vilmos Zsigmond
A very special encounter between legendary American cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond...
Metti, una sera a cena con Peppino
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
In his early days as an actor, Marlon Brando (1924-2004)...
Red Chairs - Parma and the Cinema
The relations between Parma and cinema were so strong for...
No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos
The artistry, triumph and lifelong friendship of the great cinematographers...
Schrader's Exorcism
A documentary chronicling director Paul Schrader's ride through hell and...
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.