Paolo Carnera (born 2 April 1957) is an Italian film cinematographer. Born in

Venice Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 ...

, Carnera attended the

Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia The Centro sperimentale di cinematografia (Experimental Film Centre or Italian National film school) was established in 1935 in Italy and aims to promote the art and technique of cinematography and film. The centre is the oldest film school in ...

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between 1980 and 1982, studying under

Carlo Di Palma Carlo Di Palma (17 April 19259 July 2004) was an Italian cinematographer, renowned for his work on both color and black-and-white films, whose most famous collaborations were with Michelangelo Antonioni and Woody Allen. Early life Carlo Di Palma ...

.Stefano Masi. ''Dizionario mondiale dei direttori della fotografia'', Vol. II. Le Mani, 2007. pp. 150–151. . Between the eighties and the nineties he worked in many low-budget first and second works, including the debut of several former classmates at the Centro Sperimentale, notably

Francesca Archibugi Francesca Archibugi (; born 16 May 1960) is an Italian film director and scriptwriter. Life and career Born and raised in Rome in an intellectual family (her elder brother is the political and economic theorist Daniele Archibugi), she started ...

, for whom he cared the photography of some shorts and later of her second and third feature films.Stefano Masi. ''Dizionario mondiale dei direttori della fotografia'', Vol. II. Le Mani, 2007. pp. 150–151. . He also worked with

Paolo Virzì Paolo Virzì (; born 4 March 1964) is an Italian film director, writer and producer. Early life and work Virzì was born in Livorno, Italy in 1964, as the son of a Sicily#Demographics, Sicilian police officer in the Carabinieri and a former sin ...

for his first two films.Stefano Masi. ''Dizionario mondiale dei direttori della fotografia'', Vol. II. Le Mani, 2007. pp. 150–151. . In 2012 Carnera was nominated to

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for

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and to

Nastro d'Argento The Nastro d'Argento, also known by its translated name Silver Ribbon, is an Italian film award awarded each year since 1946 by the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists (Italian: ''Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani ...

in the same category for the crime-drama film ''

ACAB – All Cops Are Bastards ''ACAB – All Cops Are Bastards'' is a 2012 Italian drama film directed by Stefano Sollima. Plot The film focuses on the life of a group of riot control force policemen, the ''Celerini'', and their life in Rome "cleansing" stadiums of Ultras, ...

''. 2020's

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won Carnera the

for Best Cinematography. Carnera worked as the Director of Photography for

Ramin Bahrani Ramin Bahrani ( fa, رامین بحرانی; born March 20, 1975) is an American director and screenwriter. Film critic Roger Ebert ranked Bahrani's ''Chop Shop'' (2007) as the sixth-best film of the 2000s, calling him "the new director of the ...

's 2021 adaptation of

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describing that he sought out the pastel pink, blues and greens “colours you can find anywhere in India, especially on neon-lit shops.”

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