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Dante Spinotti, A.S.C., A.I.C. (born 22 August 1943) is an Italian cinematographer and a member of the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He is known for his collaborations with directors Michael Mann, Michael Apted, Deon Taylor, and Brett Ratner, and is frequently credited with helping to pioneer the use of high-definition digital video in cinematography. He is a BAFTA Award recipient and two-time Academy Award nominee (for L.A. Confidential and The Insider).
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Dante Spinotti Biography / Wiki
| Name | Dante Spinotti |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Camera |
| Place of Birth | Tolmezzo, Italia |
| Date of Birth | 1943-08-22 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 79 |
| Deathday |
Dante Spinotti Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The ‘Manhunter’ Look: A Conversation with Dante Spinotti | Himself | 2001-01-01 | An interview with Manhunter cinematographer Dante Spinotti…. |
| Sunlight and Shadow: The Visual Style of ‘L.A. Confidential’ | Self | 2008-09-23 | Curtis Hanson and his behind-the-scenes collaborators reveal the secrets of bringing 1950s Los Angeles to life in unforgettable style…. |
| Borsalino City | Self – cinematographer | 2016-04-13 | The history of the birth of an icon, the Borsalino hat. From the factory where it was conceived in a small Italian town, to the glamorous world of Hol… |
| Pacino and DeNiro: The Conversation | Self | 2005-02-22 | This short documentary tells about shooting the scene from ‘Heat (1995)’ where Robert De Niro and Al Pacino meet over a cup of coffee…. |
| Michael Mann: Making ‘Public Enemies’ | Self | 2009-11-10 | Look behind the scenes at the making of Public Enemies (2009)… |
| The Making of ‘Heat’ | Self | 2005-02-22 | Behind the scenes documentary on the classic Michael Mann heist film…. |
| Deception | Herr Kleiner / Mr. Moretti | 2008-04-24 | As a corporate auditor who works in a number of different offices, Jonathan McQuarry wanders without an anchor among New York’s power brokers. A chanc… |
| Whatever You Desire: Making ‘L.A. Confidential’ | Self | 2008-09-23 | Director Curtis Hanson and his cast and crew discuss the arduous but rewarding process of creating a modern classic…. |
| Close Encounters with Vilmos Zsigmond | Self | 2016-05-13 | A very special encounter between legendary American cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond and young French director Pierre Filmon. A personal journey with t… |
Dante Spinotti Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Where Are You | Producer | 2021-08-12 | A photographer suffering under artist decline begins taking out his aggression on his girlfriend. When she disappears, he enters his subconscious, des… |
Other Info
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Heat | Director of Photography | 1995-12-15 | Obsessive master thief Neil McCauley leads a top-notch crew on various daring heists throughout Los Angeles while determined detective Vincent Hanna p… |
| The Contract | Director of Photography | 2006-04-05 | Attempting to recover from a recent family trauma by escaping into the woods for a peaceful hiking trip, an ex-lawman and his young son stumble across… |
| Nell | Director of Photography | 1994-12-23 | In a remote woodland cabin, a small town doctor discovers Nell — a beautiful young hermit woman with many secrets…. |
| L.A. Confidential | Director of Photography | 1997-09-19 | Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of… |
| Bandits | Director of Photography | 2001-10-12 | Two bank robbers fall in love with the girl they’ve kidnapped…. |
| After the Sunset | Director of Photography | 2004-11-12 | An FBI agent is suspicious of two master thieves, quietly enjoying their retirement near what may – or may not – be the biggest score of their careers… |
| Pinocchio | Director of Photography | 2002-10-11 | Roberto Benigni adapts the classic children’s tale by Carlo Collodi for the big-budget family-oriented comedy Pinocchio…. |
| Frankie and Johnny | Director of Photography | 1991-10-11 | When Johnny is released from prison following a forgery charge, he quickly lands a job as a short-order cook at a New York diner. Following a brief fl… |
| Wonder Boys | Director of Photography | 2000-02-22 | Grady is a 50-ish English professor who hasn’t had a thing published in years—not since he wrote his award winning ‘Great American Novel’ 7 years ag… |
| The Family Man | Director of Photography | 2000-12-12 | Jack’s lavish, fast-paced lifestyle changes one Christmas night when he stumbles into a grocery store holdup and disarms the gunman. The next morning … |
| Manhunter | Director of Photography | 1986-08-14 | FBI Agent Will Graham, who retired after catching Hannibal Lecktor, returns to duty to engage in a risky cat-and-mouse game with Lecktor to capture a … |
| The Quick and the Dead | Director of Photography | 1995-02-09 | A mysterious woman comes to compete in a quick-draw elimination tournament, in a town taken over by a notorious gunman…. |
| The Insider | Director of Photography | 1999-03-10 | Tells the true story of a 60 Minutes television series exposé of the tobacco industry, as seen through the eyes of a real tobacco executive, Jeffrey … |
| Hudson Hawk | Director of Photography | 1991-05-23 | Eddie Hawkins, called Hudson Hawk has just been released from ten years of prison and is planning to spend the rest of his life honestly. But then the… |
| The Last of the Mohicans | Director of Photography | 1992-08-26 | In war-torn Colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native American allies, Cora Munro, the aristocratic dau… |
| Red Dragon | Director of Photography | 2002-10-02 | Former FBI Agent Will Graham, who was once almost killed by the savage Hannibal ‘The Cannibal’ Lecter, now has no choice but to face him again, as it … |
| Beaches | Director of Photography | 1988-12-21 | A privileged rich debutante and a cynical struggling entertainer share a turbulent, but strong childhood friendship over the years…. |
| Slipstream | Director of Photography | 2007-02-10 | Aging screenwriter Felix Bonhoeffer has lived his life in two states of existence: in reality and his own interior world. While working on a murder my… |
| Tower Heist | Director of Photography | 2011-11-02 | A luxury condo manager leads a staff of workers to seek payback on the Wall Street swindler who defrauded them. With only days until the billionaire g… |
| Hearts and Armour | Director of Photography | 1983-09-21 | Bradamante, a woman wearing an invincible suit of armor, is travelling the countryside at the time of the Crusades. After ending up in the middle of a… |
| X-Men: The Last Stand | Director of Photography | 2006-05-24 | When a cure is found to treat mutations, lines are drawn amongst the X-Men—led by Professor Charles Xavier—and the Brotherhood, a band of powerful… |
| Vinodentro | Director of Photography | 2013-12-12 | For John Cuttin it all started with the first sip of the wine of her life. A “Marzemino”, a typical wine of the province of Trento, quoted by Lorenzo … |
| Hercules | Director of Photography | 2014-07-23 | Fourteen hundred years ago, a tormented soul walked the earth that was neither man nor god. Hercules was the powerful son of the god king Zeus, for th… |
| The Soup | Director of Photography | 1981-12-30 | Rome, 1960. Four different people meet each other at the Olympics. They follow the games and become friends, talking about their sad lifes…. |
| Flash of Genius | Director of Photography | 2008-09-07 | In this David vs. Goliath drama based on a true story, college professor Robert Kearns goes up against the giants of the auto industry when they fail … |
| The Legend of the Holy Drinker | Director of Photography | 1988-09-01 | Andreas Kartak, a homeless man living under the bridges of Paris is lent 200 francs by a stranger as long as he promises to repay it to a local church… |
| Deception | Director of Photography | 2008-04-24 | As a corporate auditor who works in a number of different offices, Jonathan McQuarry wanders without an anchor among New York’s power brokers. A chanc… |
| Public Enemies | Director of Photography | 2009-07-01 | Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger’s charm and audacity endear him to much of America’s downtrodden public, but he’s also a thorn in the side o… |
| I Saw the Light | Director of Photography | 2016-02-05 | Singer and songwriter Hank Williams rises to fame in the 1940s, but alcohol abuse and infidelity take a toll on his career and marriage to fellow musi… |
| The Basileus Quartet | Director of Photography | 1983-01-30 | The lives of the surviving members of the Basileus Quartet, a chamber group that has been playing successfully around the world for more than 30 years… |
| The Other Sister | Director of Photography | 1999-02-26 | A mentally challenged girl proves herself to be every bit as capable as her “perfect” sister when she moves into an apartment and begins going to coll… |
| The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader | Director of Photography | 2010-12-02 | This time around Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, along with their pesky cousin Eustace Scrubb find themselves swallowed into a painting and on to a fantasti… |
| The Secret of the Old Woods | Director of Photography | 1993-10-01 | It tells the story of a general who is about to cut down an old forest for the sake of financial gain, but discovers that the forest is inhabited by i… |
| Dream of a Summer Night | Director of Photography | 1983-11-15 | Rock musical adaptation of William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”…. |
| Cellini: A Violent Life | Director of Photography | 1990-05-02 | The story of Benvenuto Cellinin (1500-1571), a soldier and one of the most important craftsmen and artists of Renaissance Italy whose life was marked … |
| The Comfort of Strangers | Director of Photography | 1990-11-01 | An Italian diplomat’s son follows and seduces English lovers in Venice…. |
| Ant-Man and the Wasp | Director of Photography | 2018-07-04 | Just when his time under house arrest is about to end, Scott Lang once again puts his freedom at risk to help Hope van Dyne and Dr. Hank Pym dive into… |
| The Mirror Has Two Faces | Director of Photography | 1996-11-15 | Rose Morgan, who still lives with her mother, is a professor of Romantic Literature who desperately longs for passion in her life. Gregory Larkin, a m… |
| Cinderella ’80 | Director of Photography | 1984-02-16 | In this contemporary retelling of the Cinderella story, a feisty 18-year-old Italian-American New Yorker named Cindy is sent off to Rome with her iras… |
| Black and Blue | Director of Photography | 2019-10-25 | A rookie cop inadvertently captures the murder of a young drug dealer on her body cam. After realizing that the murder was committed by corrupt cops, … |
| Crimes of the Heart | Director of Photography | 1986-12-12 | Three sisters try to come to grips with the meaning of their mother’s suicide…. |
| Nelson Mandela vision und wirklichkeit | Additional Photography | … | |
| Mamba | Director of Photography | 1988-11-01 | When Gene, a maniacally deranged computer-game designer, gets dumped by his beautiful artist wife, he devises a masochistic plan for revenge. Taking h… |
| Voyage of the Rock Aliens | Additional Director of Photography | 1984-03-09 | Aliens land in the mythical town of “Speelburgh, U.S.A” searching for the source of rock & roll. What they find is a gang of teenagers, led by Dee Dee… |
| True Colors | Director of Photography | 1991-03-15 | Two law school friends find themselves at odds when one becomes a Justice Department lawyer and the other goes into politics…. |
| Freak Show | Director of Photography | 2018-01-12 | The story of teenager Billy Bloom who, despite attending an ultra conservative high school, makes the decision to run for homecoming queen…. |
| Elyse | Director of Photography | 2020-07-01 | Elyse appears, on the surface, to have it all – a beautiful family, and enviable home, a charmed lifestyle. However, all is not what it seems, and her… |
| Aria | Director of Photography | 1987-05-27 | Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. Each s… |
| Thus Spoke Bellavista | Director of Photography | 1984-10-06 | In Naples, Professor Bellavista is a retired man, passionate about the philosophy and thought of Ancient Greece. Every day, in his luxurious apartment… |
| From the Hip | Director of Photography | 1987-02-06 | Apprentice lawyer Robin Weathers turns a civil suit into a headline grabbing charade. He must reexamine his scruples after his shenanigans win him a p… |
| Illegally Yours | Director of Photography | 1988-05-13 | Called up for jury duty, Richard Dice finds his first crush and only real, but unrequited love, on trial for murder. Richard desperately tries to prov… |
| Traffik | Cinematography | 2018-04-20 | A couple off for a romantic weekend in the mountains are accosted by a biker gang. Alone in the mountains, Brea and John must defend themselves agains… |
| The Dark Side of Love | Cinematography | 1984-12-01 | The sexual relationship between a successful woman and her brother, an introvert, hypochondriacal youth, who is also a pornophile…. |
| Goodbye Lover | Cinematography | 1998-05-01 | Police investigate when a man having an affair with his brother’s wife disappears suddenly…. |
| The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader | Cinematography | 2010-12-02 | This time around Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, along with their pesky cousin Eustace Scrubb find themselves swallowed into a painting and on to a fantasti… |
| Sotto Sotto | Cinematography | 1985-11-01 | Ester finds herself sexually attracted to her newly divorced friend Adele. When Ester admits another love to her hot-headed husband, he searches manic… |
| Fatale | Cinematography | 2020-12-18 | After a one-night stand, a successful married man finds himself entangled and tricked in a female detective’s latest investigation murder scheme…. |
| The Berlin Affair | Cinematography | 1985-10-03 | In 1938 Berlin, Gudrun Landgrebe, wife of Nazi functionary Kevin McNally, begins taking art lessons. She makes the acquaintance of another student, Ja… |
| The Star Maker | Cinematography | 1995-09-21 | The adventures and deceptions of a photographer who travels through small villages of 1950s Sicily pretending to work for the big film studios in Rome… |
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