Javier Aguirresarobe Zubía (born 10 October 1948) is a Spanish

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Life and career

Aguirresarobe was born in

Eibar Eibar ( eu, Eibar, es, Éibar) is a city and municipality within the province of Gipuzkoa, in the Basque Country of Spain. It is the head town of Debabarrena, one of the '' eskualde / comarca'' of Gipuzkoa. Eibar has 27,138 inhabitants ( Eustat ...

Guipúzcoa Gipuzkoa (, , ; es, Guipúzcoa ; french: Guipuscoa) is a province of Spain and a historical territory of the autonomous community of the Basque Country. Its capital city is Donostia-San Sebastián. Gipuzkoa shares borders with the French depa ...

, Basque Country, Spain. He has worked with Spanish directors such as

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and

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, and with

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and

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. He has won six

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among other prizes. Aguirresarobe also worked as cinematographer for the film adaptation of ''

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'', released on 20 November 2009. He continued his work for the ''

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'' film series with their other sequels in the series.

Filmography

Awards and nominations

Goya Awards Sitges Film Festival BAFTA Awards San Diego Film Critics Society Houston Film Critics Society

References

External links

* 1948 births Living people People from Eibar Basque artists Spanish cinematographers {{cinematographer-stub