Mauro Fiore (born November 15, 1964) is an
Italian-American
Italian Americans ( it, italoamericani or ''italo-americani'', ) are Americans who have full or partial Italian ancestry. The largest concentrations of Italian Americans are in the urban Northeast and industrial Midwestern metropolitan areas, w ...
cinematographer
The cinematographer or director of photography (sometimes shortened to DP or DOP) is the person responsible for the photographing or recording of a film, television production, music video or other live action piece. The cinematographer is the ch ...
.
He was born in
Marzi, Calabria
Marzi is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy.
Notable people
* Mauro Fiore, Italian-American cinematographer
* Stanley Tucci, American actor and filmmaker, has his origins in Marzi
See also
...
and moved to the US with his family in 1971.
He attended
Palatine High School
Palatine High School, or PHS, is a public four-year high school in Township High School District 211. Located at 1111 N. Rohlwing Road in Palatine, Illinois, United States, a northwest suburb of Chicago, it serves primarily all of and only those a ...
in
Palatine, Illinois, and graduated in 1982. He started off pursuing a career in sociology but was captivated by photography and art. He went on to receive his
B.A.
Bachelor of arts (BA or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts degree course is generally completed in three or four yea ...
from
Columbia College Chicago
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in 1987 and moved to Los Angeles to jumpstart his career.
Fiore won the
Academy Award for Best Cinematography
The Academy Award for Best Cinematography is an Academy Award awarded each year to a cinematographer for work on one particular motion picture.
History
In its first film season, 1927–28, this award (like others such as the acting awards) ...
at the
82nd Academy Awards
The 82nd Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2009 and took place on March 7, 2010, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m ...
for his work on the 2009 film
''Avatar''. Previously, he worked on the films ''
Training Day
''Training Day'' is a 2001 American crime thriller film directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by David Ayer. It stars Denzel Washington as Alonzo Harris and Ethan Hawke as Jake Hoyt, two LAPD narcotics officers over a 24-hour period in the gang- ...
'', ''
The Hire: Ticker'', ''
Tears of the Sun
''Tears of the Sun'' is a 2003 American action thriller film depicting a fictitious U.S. Navy SEAL team rescue mission amidst the 21st-century version of the civil war in Nigeria. Lieutenant A.K. Waters (Bruce Willis) commands the team sent t ...
'', ''
Smokin' Aces
''Smokin' Aces'' is a 2006 American action comedy film written and directed by Joe Carnahan. The film centers on the chase for Las Vegas magician turned mafia informant Robert 'Buddy Aces' Israel (Jeremy Piven), on whom a one-million-dollar bounty ...
'' and ''
The Kingdom''. He also worked as cinematographer for the television series ''
Tracey Takes On...''. His most recent work was as the director of photography for ''
Spider-Man: No Way Home''.
Personal life
Fiore married Christine Vollmer in 2000. They have three children.
Filmography
Feature films
Short films
Television
References
External links
*
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1964 births
Living people
People from Calabria
People from the Province of Cosenza
American cinematographers
Columbia College Chicago alumni
Italian emigrants to the United States
Best Cinematographer Academy Award winners