With The Last Emperor, they both won the Academy Award®—for Best Director and Adapted Screenplay (Bertolucci) and Best Cinematography (Storaro)—a unique moment in Italian cinema.. This conflict appeared already outlined in Giovinezza, giovinezza , his first film, through his treatment of light, as if Storaro wished to affirm the history of its use in a pictorial culture going back to the Renaissance, aligning himself in this way in the artistic tradition of Italian cinematography, along with Giuseppe Rotunno and Pasquale.
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.. Storaro in Camerimage Festival 23 in 2015, talking about how color affects people physically and psychologically 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. [4]
