
José Luis Alcaine
J. Luis Alcaine
Birth Date
12/26/1938 (87)Birth Place
Tangier, MoroccoDepartments
Biography
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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Frequent Collaborators

Pedro Almodóvar
20 films together

Antonio Banderas
6 films together

Penélope Cruz
7 films together

Bigas Luna
6 films together

Alberto Iglesias
8 films together

Hugh Wilson
4 films together






























