José Luis Alcaine
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.
- Known for
- Camera
- Born
- 1938-12-26 · Tangier, Morocco
Known for
- The Skin I Live In (2011) — Director of Photography
- Volver (2006) — Director of Photography
- Pain and Glory (2019) — Director of Photography
- Blast from the Past (1999) — Director of Photography
- Bad Education (2004) — Director of Photography
- Parallel Mothers (2021) — Director of Photography
- Everybody Knows (2018) — Director of Photography
- Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988) — Director of Photography
- I'm So Excited! (2013) — Director of Photography
- Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1990) — Director of Photography
- Passion (2013) — Director of Photography
- My Life in Ruins (2009) — Director of Photography
- Jamon Jamon (1992) — Director of Photography
- Strange Way of Life (2023) — Director of Photography
- Domino (2019) — Director of Photography
- Who Can Kill a Child? (1976) — Director of Photography