| Luciano Tovoli | |
| Birth Date: | 30 October 1936 |
| Birth Place: | Massa Marittima, Province of Grosseto, Kingdom of Italy |
| Nationality: | Italian |
| Years Active: | 1961–present |
Luciano Tovoli [1] (pronounced as /it/; born 30 October 1936) is an Italian cinematographer and filmmaker. With a career spanning over five decades, he is considered one of Italy's premier cinematographers, collaborating with numerous acclaimed filmmakers such as Michelangelo Antonioni, Francis Veber, Dario Argento, Ettore Scola, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Julie Taymor.[2] [3]
Films that Tovoli has photographed include The Passenger (1975), Suspiria (1977), Titus (1999).[4] [5] He has been a longtime collaborator of Barbet Schroeder, having worked with the Iranian-born filmmaker's Reversal of Fortune (1990), Single White Female (1992), Before and After (1996), Murder by Numbers (2002), and (2008).[6] He is a member of the American, Italian Society of Cinematographers, and an honorary member of the Swedish Society of Cinematographers and the European Federation of Cinematographers.[7] [8]
In 1983, Tovoli directed and cowrote Il Generale dell'armata morte based on a novel by Ismail Kadare, starring Marcello Mastroianni and Anouk Aimée.
| Year | Film | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | Something Like Love | Enzo Muzii | Nominated - Nastro d'Argento for Best Cinematography |
| 1969 | The Uninvited | Vittorio De Seta | |
| Four Came to Kill Sartana | Demofilo Fidani |
| Year | Film | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Rose Spot | Enzo Muzii | |
| Tulips of Haarlem | Franco Brusati | ||
| 1971 | Io non spezzo... rompo | Bruno Corbucci | |
| Down with Your Hands... You Scum! | Demofilo Fidani | Co-cinematographer with Franco Villa | |
| 1972 | We Won't Grow Old Together | Maurice Pialat | |
| Chung Kuo, Cina | Michelangelo Antonioni | ||
| La vita in gioco | Gianfranco Mingozzi | ||
| 1973 | Dirty Weekend | Dino Risi | |
| Bread and Chocolate | Franco Brusati | ||
| 1974 | The Peaceful Age | Fabio Carpi | |
| 1975 | Mistress of the Devil | Juan Luis Buñuel | |
| L'altro Dio | Elio Bartolini | ||
| The Passenger | Michelangelo Antonioni | Won - Nastro d'Argento for Best Cinematography | |
| Weak Spot | Peter Fleischmann | ||
| The Sunday Woman | Luigi Comencini | ||
| Snapshot of a Crime | Mario Imperoli | ||
| 1976 | The Last Woman | Marco Ferreri | |
| The Desert of the Tartars | Valerio Zurlini | ||
| 1977 | This Is the Night | Carlo Di Carlo | |
| Suspiria | Dario Argento | ||
| 1978 | Behind Convent Walls | Walerian Borowczyk | |
| Noccioline a colazione | Mario Orfini | ||
| Bye Bye Monkey | Marco Ferreri | ||
| Where Are You Going on Holiday? | Mauro Bolognini | Segment: "Sarò tutta per te" |
| Year | Film | Director | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | La Regina Degli Scacchi | Claudia Florio | ||
| The Closet | Francis Veber | |||
| 2002 | I Love You Eugenio | Francisco José Fernandez | ||
| Murder by Numbers | Barbet Schroeder | |||
| 2003 | Ruby & Quentin | Francis Veber | ||
| 2007 | Hidden Love | Alessandro Capone | ||
| 2008 | Barbet Schroeder | |||
| 2009 | Oceans | Jacques Perrin Jacques Cluzaud | Co-cinematographer with Philippe Ros, David Reichert, Valérie Le Gurun, René Heuzey, Laurent Fleutot, Luc Drion, Simon Christidis & Michel Benjamin Nominated - Cinema Eye Honors Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography |
| Year | Film | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Natale in Sudafrica | Neri Parenti | |
| 2011 | Amici miei - Come tutto ebbe inizio | ||
| 2012 | Dracula 3D | Dario Argento | |
| 2013 | How Strange to Be Named Federico | Ettore Scola | Nominated - Globo d'Oro for Best Cinematography Won - Special Silver Ribbon Award |
| 2015 | Amnesia | Barbet Schroeder | |
| 2016 | Un Juif pour l'exemple | Jacob Berger | |
| 2017 | False Confessions | Luc Bondy Marie-Louise Bischofberger | |
| Il padre di mia figlia | Carloalberto Biazzi | Short film |