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Mauro Fiore

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Mauro Fiore
Born (1964-11-15) November 15, 1964 (age 59)
Alma materColumbia College Chicago (B.A., 1987)
AFI Conservatory
OccupationCinematographer
Years active1986–present
Spouse
Christine Vollmer
(m. 2000)
Children3
AwardsAcademy Award for Best Cinematography
2010 Avatar

Mauro Fiore (born November 15, 1964) is an Italian-American cinematographer. He won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work on Avatar (2009).

Early life

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Fiore was born in Marzi, Calabria and moved to the US with his family in 1971.[1] He attended Palatine High School in Palatine, Illinois, and graduated in 1982. He started out pursuing a career in sociology but was captivated by photography and art. He went on to receive his B.A. from Columbia College Chicago in 1987 and moved to Los Angeles to jumpstart his career.[2][3] He graduated from the AFI Conservatory, where he met cinematographers Janusz Kamiński and Phedon Papamichael.[4]

Career

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Early in his career, he worked with fellow Columbia College and AFI graduate Janusz Kamiński,[3] initially on B movies before the two gradually worked their way up into higher-profile projects. He was Kamiński's grip, his camera operator, and eventually his second unit photographer on The Lost World: Jurassic Park and Amistad (both 1997). He was the director of photography on Kamiński's directorial debut, Lost Souls (2000).[5]

Fiore shot 17 episodes of the television series Tracey Takes On.... His first major motion picture credit as cinematographer was the Sylvester Stallone vehicle Get Carter (2000). He established a partnership with director Antoine Fuqua, beginning with Training Day (2001), and has shot six more of the director's films since.

His other feature film credits during this time included Wayne Wang's The Center of the World (2001), Michael Bay's The Island (2005), and Joe Carnahan's Smokin' Aces (2006) and The A-Team (2010).

Fiore shot James Cameron's Avatar (2009), where he and the director utilized a variety of cutting-edge techniques to combine a live-action shoot with computer-generated characters and environments. Fiore and Cameron utilized a unique camera referred to as a "simulcam," which recorded the live-action footage with virtual camera CGI footage in real-time. For his work on the film, Fiore won Best Cinematography at the Academy Awards.

Subsequent films Fiore has worked on include Real Steel (2011), Dark Phoenix (2019), Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), A Good Person (2023), and The Killer (2024). In 2021, he shot his first film produced in his native Italy, Security.

Fiore is set to re-team with James Cameron for the fourth and fifth installments of the Avatar series, after being replaced by Russell Carpenter on the second and third films.

Personal life

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Fiore married Christine Vollmer in 2000. They have three children.[citation needed]

Filmography

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Feature film

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Year Title Director Notes
1986 Automaton David Bazant
Jeff Economy
1995 Dominion Michael G. Kehoe
Soldier Boyz Louis Mourneau
1996 An Occasional Hell Salomé Breziner
1997 Breaking Up Robert Greenwald
1998 Love from Ground Zero Stephen Grynberg
Billboard Dad Alan Metter
2000 Get Carter Stephen Kay
Lost Souls Janusz Kamiński
2001 Driven Renny Harlin
The Center of the World Wayne Wang
Training Day Antoine Fuqua 1st collaboration with Fuqua
2002 Highway James Cox
2003 Tears of the Sun Antoine Fuqua
2005 The Island Michael Bay
2006 Smokin' Aces Joe Carnahan
2007 The Kingdom Peter Berg
2009 Avatar James Cameron
2010 The A-Team Joe Carnahan
2011 Real Steel Shawn Levy
2013 Runner Runner Brad Furman
2014 The Equalizer Antoine Fuqua
2015 Southpaw
2016 The Magnificent Seven
2019 Dark Phoenix Simon Kinberg
Mosul Matthew Michael Carnahan
2021 Infinite Antoine Fuqua
Spider-Man: No Way Home Jon Watts
Security Peter Chelsom
2023 A Good Person Zach Braff
2024 Madame Web S. J. Clarkson
The Killer John Woo
2029 Avatar 4 James Cameron Filming

Short film

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Year Title Director Notes Ref.
1993 Drag Mark Pavia [6]
2002 Ticker Joe Carnahan Segment of The Hire [7]
2006 The Call Antoine Fuqua [8]
2011 The Black Mamba Robert Rodriguez
Roland Suso Richter
With Guillermo Navarro [9]
2017 Eattogether Michael Clowater Video short [10]
2019 In the Time It Takes to Get There Zach Braff

Television

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Year Title Notes
1997–98 Tracey Takes On... 17 episodes
2006 Faceless TV movie
2011 Inside Social film
2015 Chris Tucker – Live Stand-up comedy special

Awards and nominations

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Year Award Category Title Result
2009 Academy Awards Best Cinematography Avatar Won
Critics' Choice Movie Awards Best Cinematography Won
Florida Film Critics Circle Best Cinematography Won
BAFTA Awards Best Cinematography Nominated
Chicago Film Critics Association Best Cinematography Nominated
Houston Film Critics Society Best Cinematography Nominated
New York Film Critics Circle Best Cinematographer Nominated
Online Film Critics Society Best Cinematography Nominated
American Society of Cinematographers Outstanding Cinematography Nominated

References

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  1. ^ "Mauro Fiore". www.cinematographers.nl. Retrieved March 9, 2010.
  2. ^ "Daily Herald". www.dailyherald.com. Retrieved April 2, 2010.
  3. ^ a b Turnbaugh, Kristi. "Mauro Fiore '87". www.colum.edu. Retrieved 2024-08-28.
  4. ^ "Explore the history of Mauro Fiore and their career". www.independentmediainc.com. Retrieved 2024-08-28.
  5. ^ "The Devil Made Flesh - page 1". theasc.com. Retrieved 2024-08-28.
  6. ^ "Mark Pavia's "DRAG"". Retrieved 18 February 2018.
  7. ^ "BMW Films-The Hire-Ticker". Retrieved 18 February 2018.
  8. ^ "Pirelli Tires "The Call" web film starring John Malkovich -Antoine Fuqua". Vimeo. 7 September 2010. Retrieved 18 February 2018.
  9. ^ "Kobe Bryant is, "The Black Mamba". Directed by Robert Rodriguez. (Polskie napisy)". Vimeo. Retrieved 18 February 2018.
  10. ^ "PRESIDENT'S CHOICE "EAT TOGETHER"". Vimeo. 13 January 2017. Retrieved 18 February 2018.
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