1. Vittorio Storaro has received three Academy Awards for Best Cinematography for the films Apocalypse Now, Reds, 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.
The son of a film projectionist, Storaro began studying photography at the age of 11.
Vittorio Storaro went on to formal cinematography studies at the national Italian film school, Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, when he was 18.
Vittorio Storaro is considered to be one of the greatest and most influential cinematographers of all time.
Vittorio Storaro has worked with many important film directors, in particular Bernardo Bertolucci, with whom he has had a long collaboration.
Vittorio Storaro's 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.
Vittorio Storaro first worked with Bertolucci on The Conformist.
The first American film that Vittorio Storaro worked on was Apocalypse Now.
Vittorio Storaro worked with Warren Beatty for the first time on Reds, and ended up winning his second Academy Award.
Vittorio Storaro won a third Academy Award for The Last Emperor, directed by Bertolucci.
In 2002, Vittorio Storaro completed the first in a series of books that articulate his philosophy of cinematography.
Vittorio Storaro 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.
Woody Allen's Cafe Society was the first film that Vittorio Storaro shot digitally; he used the Sony F65 camera.
In 2017, Vittorio Storaro was honored with the George Eastman Award.
Vittorio Storaro is known for stylish, fastidious, and flamboyant personal fashion.