{"id":9522,"date":"2009-05-14T06:31:20","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T04:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/camernew.klienci.052b.com\/dante-spinotti-asc-aic-laureatem-nagrody-za-caloksztalt-tworczosci\/"},"modified":"2009-05-14T06:31:20","modified_gmt":"2009-05-14T04:31:20","slug":"dante-spinotti-asc-aic-laureatem-nagrody-za-caloksztalt-tworczosci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/en\/dante-spinotti-asc-aic-laureatem-nagrody-za-caloksztalt-tworczosci\/","title":{"rendered":"LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD GOES TO DANTE SPINOTTI ASC, AIC"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dante Spinotti ASC, AIC<\/b>
photo by Andrzej Lew<\/p>\n

It is our great pleasure and joy to announce that Plus Camerimage Lifetime Achievement Award 2009<\/b> will be granted to an outstanding cinematographer Dante Spinotti ASC, AIC<\/b>. The Award will be presented at the 17th edition of the festival which will be held from 28 November till 5th December<\/b>. The organizers of Plus Camerimage<\/b> will pay a tribute to this innovative and visionary artist. A retrospective review of Spinotti’s<\/b> films will present some of his greatest achievements. <\/p>\n

Daniel Day-Lewis, The Last of the Mohicans<\/i><\/p>\n

Dante Spinotti<\/b> was born on 24th August 1943 in Tolmezzo, in the northeastern region of Italy. At the age of about 11 he started doing still photography with a camera that his uncle gave him. He began taking photographs and making enlargements in his private darkroom. When he was 17, Spinotti<\/b> went to Kenya to work on documentaries and newsreels with his uncle, a cinematographer and director. Upon his return to Italy, about a year later, he was working on commercials and then became staff cameraman for the State Italian Television, RAI which he left to become a freelance in 1980. Then, in early 80s, Spinotti<\/b> shot his first features for cinema in Italy, and in 1986 he worked on Choke Canyon<\/i><\/span> – his first feature in US. When producer Dino De Laurentis<\/b> hired him to photograph Michael Mann’s<\/b>Manhunter<\/i><\/span> and Spinotti<\/b> soon became one of the most appreciated cinematographers in Hollywood. Spinotti<\/b> later continued to work with Mann<\/b> also on The Last of the Mohicans<\/i><\/span>, Heat<\/i><\/span>, The Insider<\/i><\/span> and most recently Public Enemies<\/i><\/span> starring Johnny Depp<\/b> and Christian Bale<\/b>. He worked with many other reputable directors including Michael Apted<\/b>, Bruce Beresford<\/b>, Brett Ratner<\/b>, Garry Marshall<\/b>, Curtis Hanson<\/b>, Giuseppe Tornatore<\/b>, Ermanno Olmi<\/b>, Roberto Benigni<\/b>, Roland Joffe<\/b>, Barry Levinson<\/b>, Lina Wertmuller<\/b> or Marcel Langenegger<\/b>. <\/p>\n

Michael Douglas, Wonder Boys<\/i><\/p>\n

Dante Spinotti<\/b> is a well-respected cinematographer whose extraordinary and artful work behind the camera has resulted in numerous nominations and awards. He has won two Italian Donatello Awards<\/b>, for The Legend of the Holy Drinker<\/i><\/span> in 1988 and for The Secret of the Old Woods<\/i><\/span> in 1993. Additionally, in 2002, he was also nominated to the same award for his photography on Roberto Begnini’s<\/b>Pinocchio<\/i><\/span>. For his work on The Insider<\/i><\/span>, directed by Michael Mann<\/b>, and L.A. Confidential<\/i><\/span>, directed by Curtis Hanson<\/b>, he was recognized by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences<\/b> with Oscar<\/b> nominations. These two films as well as Michael Mann’s<\/b>The Last of the Mohicans<\/i><\/span> were also nominated to the American Society of Cinematographers Awards<\/b>, BAFTA Awards<\/b>, and British Society of Cinematographers Awards<\/b>. Spinotti<\/b> also won the L.A. Film Critics Association Award<\/b> two times with L.A. Confidential<\/i><\/span> and The Insider<\/i><\/span>. <\/p>\n

Dante Spinotti’s<\/b> next project is The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader<\/i><\/span> which is planned to be released in 2010. <\/p>\n

Al Pacino and Russell Crowe The Insider<\/i><\/p>\n

Selected filmography:<\/b><\/p>\n