Mauro Fiore

Mauro Fiore

1964-11-17 Marzi, Calabria, Italy 60 Credits

Biography

Mauro Fiore (born November 15, 1964) is an Italian-American cinematographer. He won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work on Avatar (2009). Fiore was born in Marzi, California, and moved to the US with his family in 1971. He attended Palatine High School in Palatine, Illinois, and graduated in 1982. He started out pursuing a career in sociology but was captivated by photography and art. He went on to receive his B.A. from Columbia College Chicago in 1987 and moved to Los Angele...

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Avatar 5

Avatar 5

2031

Director of Photography

Directing

The fifth installment of the Avatar franchise.

Avatar 4

Avatar 4

2029

Director of Photography

Directing

The fourth installment of the Avatar franchise.

The Lost Legacy of Tony Gaudio

The Lost Legacy of Tony Gaudio

2024

as Self

7.5
Acting

De Sica, Fellini, Loren, Benigni, Sorrentino. Many Italians have won an Academy Award®. But who was the first ever?

The Lost Legacy of Tony Guadio

The Lost Legacy of Tony Guadio

2024

as Self

Acting

De Sica, Fellini, Loren, Benigni, Sorrentino. Many Italians have won an Oscar®. But who was the first ever?

The Killer

The Killer

2024

Director of Photography

6.4
Directing

Zee is a feared contract killer known as "the Queen of the Dead," but when she refuses to murder a young blind woman, she finds herself hunted both by...

Madame Web

Madame Web

2024

Director of Photography

5.3
Directing

Forced to confront revelations about her past, paramedic Cassandra Webb forges a relationship with three young women destined for powerful futures...i...

A Good Person

A Good Person

2023

Director of Photography

7.1
Directing

Allison's life falls apart following her involvement in a fatal accident. The unlikely relationship she forms with her would-be father-in-law helps he...

Spider-Man: No Way Home

Spider-Man: No Way Home

2021

Director of Photography

7.9
Directing

Peter Parker is unmasked and no longer able to separate his normal life from the high-stakes of being a super-hero. When he asks for help from Doctor ...

Infinite

Infinite

2021

Director of Photography

6.6
Directing

Evan McCauley has skills he never learned and memories of places he has never visited. Self-medicated and on the brink of a mental breakdown, a secret...

Security

Security

2021

Director of Photography

5.6
Directing

After the assault of a young woman in their seaside town, a security expert and his family get caught in a powerful riptide of secrets and lies.

Mosul

Mosul

2019

Director of Photography

6.7
Directing

When ISIS took their homes, families and city, one group of men fought to take it all back. Based on true events, this is the story of the Nineveh SWA...

Dark Phoenix

Dark Phoenix

2019

Director of Photography

6.0
Directing

The X-Men face their most formidable and powerful foe when one of their own, Jean Grey, starts to spiral out of control. During a rescue mission in ou...

In the Time It Takes to Get There

In the Time It Takes to Get There

2019

Director of Photography

7.0
Directing

The routines and strifes of a disenchanted social media influencer are reimagined with an 18th century backdrop.

The Magnificent Seven

The Magnificent Seven

2016

Director of Photography

6.5
Directing

Looking to mine for gold, greedy industrialist Bartholomew Bogue seizes control of the Old West town of Rose Creek. With their lives in jeopardy, Emma...

Southpaw

Southpaw

2015

Director of Photography

7.4
Directing

Billy "The Great" Hope, the reigning junior middleweight boxing champion, has an impressive career, a loving wife and daughter, and a lavish lifestyle...

The Equalizer

The Equalizer

2014

Director of Photography

7.3
Directing

McCall believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and dedicated himself to beginning a new, quiet life. But when he meets Teri, a young girl u...

Runner Runner

Runner Runner

2013

Director of Photography

5.7
Directing

When a poor college student who cracks an online poker game goes bust, he arranges a face-to-face with the man he thinks cheated him, a sly offshore e...

Real Steel

Real Steel

2011

Director of Photography

7.0
Directing

Charlie Kenton is a washed-up fighter who retired from the ring when robots took over the sport. After his robot is trashed, he reluctantly teams up w...

The Black Mamba

The Black Mamba

2011

Controller

6.4

Nike's Black Mamba film, starring Kobe Bryant, made its debut at the NBA All Star Weekend. The almost six-minute film, directed by action director Rob...

Capturing Avatar

Capturing Avatar

2010

as Self

7.0
Acting

Capturing Avatar is a feature length behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of Avatar. It uses footage from the film's development, as well as...

The A-Team

The A-Team

2010

Director of Photography

6.4
Directing

A man who loves when a plan comes together, Col. Hannibal Smith leads a close-knit team of elite operatives and Iraq War veterans. Framed for a crime ...

Avatar

Avatar

2009

Director of Photography

7.6
Directing

In the 22nd century, a paraplegic Marine is dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission, but becomes torn between following orders and protecti...

The Kingdom

The Kingdom

2007

Director of Photography

6.7
Directing

A team of U.S. government agents is sent to investigate the bombing of an American facility in the Middle East.

Smokin' Aces

Smokin' Aces

2006

Director of Photography

6.5
Directing

When a Las Vegas performer-turned-snitch named Buddy Israel decides to turn state's evidence and testify against the mob, it seems that a whole lot of...

The Call

2006

Director of Photography

4.7
Directing

Pirelli Film's first promotional short, starring John Malcovich and Naomi Campbell.

The Island

The Island

2005

Director of Photography

6.7
Directing

In 2019, Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a seemingly "Utopian" but contained facility. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully-controlled envi...

Tears of the Sun

Tears of the Sun

2003

Director of Photography

6.9
Directing

Navy SEAL Lieutenant A.K. Waters and his elite squadron of tactical specialists are forced to choose between their duty and their humanity, between fo...

Ticker

Ticker

2002

Director of Photography

6.6
Directing

The Driver drives a wounded diplomat, who carries a mysterious briefcase, while under helicopter attack. During the attack the briefcase is struck by ...

Highway

Highway

2002

Director of Photography

5.5
Directing

Jack is caught with the wife of his employer, a Vegas thug. The thug sends goons after Jack, who convinces his best friend, Pilot, to flee with him. P...

Training Day

Training Day

2001

Director of Photography

7.5
Directing

On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears.

Driven

Driven

2001

Director of Photography

5.1
Directing

Talented rookie race-car driver Jimmy Bly has started losing his focus and begins to slip in the race rankings. It's no wonder, with the immense press...

The Center of the World

The Center of the World

2001

Director of Photography

5.0
Directing

A couple checks into a suite in Las Vegas. In flashbacks we see that he's a computer whiz on the verge of becoming a dot.com millionaire, she's a lap ...

Lost Souls

Lost Souls

2000

Director of Photography

5.0
Directing

A young woman becomes aware of a conspiracy to enable the Devil to walk the Earth in human form. To defeat the prophesy, she must convince a respected...

Get Carter

Get Carter

2000

Director of Photography

5.2
Directing

Jack Carter, a mob enforcer living in Las Vegas, travels back to his hometown of Seattle for his brother's funeral. During this visit, Carter realizes...

Love from Ground Zero

1998

Director of Photography

Directing

Love From Ground Zero follows three strangers across the back roads of America with the ashes of a mutual friend. Using a series of old postcards as a...

Armageddon

Armageddon

1998

Second Unit Director of Photography

6.8
Directing

When an asteroid threatens to collide with Earth, NASA honcho Dan Truman determines the only way to stop it is to drill into its surface and detonate ...

Billboard Dad

Billboard Dad

1998

Director of Photography

6.1
Directing

High above Hollywood Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are playing Matchmakers! One's a surfer. The other's a high diver. When these two sisters team up to f...

Breaking Up

Breaking Up

1997

Director of Photography

4.4
Directing

An aloof, struggling food photographer thinks he has found true love with a fiery grade-school teacher. At first, the relationship is all wine and ros...

An Occasional Hell

An Occasional Hell

1996

Director of Photography

3.5
Directing

A former policeman-turned college professor of forensics, is asked by a widow to solve the murder of her unfaithful husband and the disappearance of h...

Soldier Boyz

Soldier Boyz

1995

Director of Photography

4.8
Directing

A group of prisoners are going to Vietnam to rescue the daughter of a V-I.P. The Ones who survive get their freedom back...but hell awaits them.

Dominion

Dominion

1995

Director of Photography

4.0
Directing

A hunting expedition goes awry when another hunter decides to make the hunters the hunted.

Little Giants

Little Giants

1994

"B" Camera Operator

6.5

When Danny O'Shea's daughter is cut from the Peewee football team just for being a girl, he decides to form his own team, composed of other ragtag pla...

Mi Vida Loca

Mi Vida Loca

1994

"B" Camera Operator

6.6

Mousie and Sad Girl are childhood best friends in a contemporary Los Angeles poor Hispanic neighborhood. But when Sad Girl becomes pregnant by Mousie'...

Schindler's List

Schindler's List

1993

Gaffer

8.6

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during ...

The Adventures of Huck Finn

The Adventures of Huck Finn

1993

Camera Operator

6.2

Mischievous Huck Finn is unnerved when his father, reemerging after years away, kidnaps him in an attempt to take away a $600 inheritance from his lat...

Drag

Drag

1993

Director of Photography

3.0
Directing

The world is dead. A lone woman, Victoria, struggles valiantly to stay alive on this desolate planet once known as Earth. But Victoria is not alone he...

Trouble Bound

Trouble Bound

1993

Camera Operator, Second Unit Director of Photography

5.9
Directing

Upon getting out of prison, a man who took the rap for some thief buddies gets together with them again, and tells them he's not interested in doing t...

Pyrates

Pyrates

1991

Gaffer

5.2

As soon as they meet Ari and Sam get into a pretty passionate - and combustible - relationship. Indeed, the scenes of their rendezvous often seem remi...

Wildflower

Wildflower

1991

Gaffer

5.9

One day Sammy and his younger sister Ellie happen upon a cabin where Alice, a young, partially deaf girl with epilepsy is being kept by her abusive st...

Cool as Ice

Cool as Ice

1991

Chief Lighting Technician

4.9

Freewheeling, motorcycle-riding musician Johnny rolls into a small town with his band, and meets Kathy, an honor student who catches his eye. Meanwhil...

Night of the Warrior

Night of the Warrior

1991

Electrician

4.6

A kickboxer has an accounting problem with the mobster (Anthony Geary) who lent him money for a nightclub.

The Terror Within II

The Terror Within II

1991

Second Unit Director of Photography

4.1
Directing

In a world gone mad, the last human colony struggles to survive underground, beneath a land of nightmarish mutants who seek to destroy them. But when ...

Watchers II

Watchers II

1990

Key Grip

4.8

A genetically re-engineered dog develops a psychic link with a monster created in a lab experiment which goes awry.

After Midnight

After Midnight

1989

Key Grip

5.5

A college professor teaching a course called "The Psychology of Fear" brings his students (including a psychic) to his home, one dark and stormy night...

Far from Home

Far from Home

1989

Key Grip

5.3

Charlie Cox should have stopped for gas in California. While he's on a cross-country trip with his teenage daughter, Joleen, his car hits empty in a c...

The Return of Swamp Thing

The Return of Swamp Thing

1989

Dolly Grip

5.5

The Swamp Thing returns to battle the evil Dr. Arcane, who has a new science lab full of creatures transformed by genetic mutation, and chooses Heathe...

Stripped to Kill 2: Live Girls

Stripped to Kill 2: Live Girls

1989

Key Grip

4.9

When the razor blade slasher begins his reign of terror in the alleys behind the Los Angeles strip clubs, the most famous stripper in the spotlight mu...

Saturday the 14th Strikes Back

Saturday the 14th Strikes Back

1988

Key Grip

3.6

Eddie and his family have just inherited a spooky wreck of a house. What they do not know about the house is that it was built over an evil passage wa...

Not of This Earth

Not of This Earth

1988

Key Grip

4.8

An alien arrives on Earth looking to take human blood in an attempt to preserve his dying planet.

Heart of the Beast

N/A

Director of Photography

Directing

A former Army Special Forces soldier and his retired combat dog battle for survival after a plane crash deep in the unforgiving Alaskan wilderness.