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José Luis Alcaine

José Luis Alcaine

Camera • 1938-12-26 • Tangier, Morocco

José Luis Alcaine Escaño (born 26 December 1938) is a Spanish cinematographer. Educated in Tangier, he was the first cinematographer to use a fluorescent tube as key lighting in the 1970s. He has worked on films such as Belle Époque (Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, 1993), Two Much (1995), Blast from the Past (1999), and The Skin I Live In (2011). He won the European Film Award for Best Cinematographer for Volver, and has received five Goya Awards for best cinematography. In February 2019, he received the Medalla de Oro al Mérito en las Bellas Artes. Description above from the Wikipedia article José Luis Alcaine, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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The Skin I Live In7.5

The Skin I Live In

2011

Volver7.5

Volver

2006

Pain and Glory7.4

Pain and Glory

2019

Blast from the Past6.8

Blast from the Past

1999

Parallel Mothers6.8

Parallel Mothers

2021

Bad Education7.4

Bad Education

2004

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