1901–1988 · Japan · Cinematographer
Asakazu Nakai
Kurosawa's camera for rain, mud and vast colour battlefields.
Seven Samurai, 1954Source: Wikipedia
CINEMATOGRAPHER · 1923–2005 · ITALY
Tonino Delli Colli
From Italy's first colour film to Pasolini and Leone.
- Born
- 1923
- Died
- 2005
- Country
- Italy
- Field
- Cinematographer
KNOWN FOR
- 1966The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
- 1968Once Upon a Time in the West
- 1997Life Is Beautiful
- 1975Seven Beauties
WHY THEY MATTER
Posthumous Lifetime Achievement Award at Camerimage (2005); twelve films with Pier Paolo Pasolini.
THE LIFE
Delli Colli was born in Rome and began at Cinecitta at sixteen. By the mid-1940s he was a cinematographer, and he shot the first Italian film in colour, Toto a colori. He worked with Sergio Leone, Roman Polanski, Louis Malle, Jean-Jacques Annaud and Federico Fellini, and made twelve films with Pier Paolo Pasolini. His work on Lina Wertmuller's Seven Beauties was a career highlight.
Also born in 1900–1929
1901–1996 · United States · Cinematographer
John Alton
Hard shadows and pools of light that defined film noir.
T-Men, 1947Source: Wikipedia
1901–1974 · United States · Cinematographer
Leon Shamroy
Bold Technicolor of the Fox studio era.
Leave Her to Heaven, 1945Source: Wikipedia
1902–1998 · United Kingdom · Cinematographer
Freddie Young
Sweeping, lush widescreen colour.
Lawrence of Arabia, 1962Source: Wikipedia
1902–2000 · Italy · Cinematographer
Otello Martelli
Neorealist grit that opened up into Fellini's nocturnal spectacle.
La Dolce Vita, 1960Source: Wikipedia
1904–1948 · United States · Cinematographer
Gregg Toland
Deep focus, with near and far planes sharp at once.
Citizen Kane, 1941Source: Wikipedia