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...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Avatar 5
2031
Director of Photography
The fifth installment of the Avatar franchise.

Avatar 4
2029
Director of Photography
The fourth installment of the Avatar franchise.

The Lost Legacy of Tony Gaudio
2024
as Self
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
2024
as Self
De Sica, Fellini, Loren, Benigni, Sorrentino. Many Italians have won an Oscar®. But who was the first ever?

The Killer
2024
Director of Photography
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
2024
Director of Photography
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
2023
Director of Photography
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
2021
Director of Photography
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
2021
Director of Photography
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
2021
Director of Photography
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
2019
Director of Photography
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
2019
Director of Photography
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
2019
Director of Photography
The routines and strifes of a disenchanted social media influencer are reimagined with an 18th century backdrop.

The Magnificent Seven
2016
Director of Photography
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
2015
Director of Photography
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
2014
Director of Photography
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
2013
Director of Photography
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
2011
Director of Photography
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
2011
Controller
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
2010
as Self
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
2010
Director of Photography
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
2009
Director of Photography
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
2007
Director of Photography
A team of U.S. government agents is sent to investigate the bombing of an American facility in the Middle East.

Smokin' Aces
2006
Director of Photography
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
Pirelli Film's first promotional short, starring John Malcovich and Naomi Campbell.

The Island
2005
Director of Photography
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
2003
Director of Photography
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
2002
Director of Photography
The Driver drives a wounded diplomat, who carries a mysterious briefcase, while under helicopter attack. During the attack the briefcase is struck by ...

Highway
2002
Director of Photography
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
2001
Director of Photography
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
2001
Director of Photography
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
2001
Director of Photography
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
2000
Director of Photography
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
2000
Director of Photography
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
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
1998
Second Unit Director of Photography
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
1998
Director of Photography
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
1997
Director of Photography
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
1996
Director of Photography
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
1995
Director of Photography
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
1995
Director of Photography
A hunting expedition goes awry when another hunter decides to make the hunters the hunted.

Little Giants
1994
"B" Camera Operator
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
1994
"B" Camera Operator
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
1993
Gaffer
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
1993
Camera Operator
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
1993
Director of Photography
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
1993
Camera Operator, Second Unit Director of Photography
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
1991
Gaffer
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
1991
Gaffer
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
1991
Chief Lighting Technician
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
1991
Electrician
A kickboxer has an accounting problem with the mobster (Anthony Geary) who lent him money for a nightclub.

The Terror Within II
1991
Second Unit Director of Photography
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
1990
Key Grip
A genetically re-engineered dog develops a psychic link with a monster created in a lab experiment which goes awry.

After Midnight
1989
Key Grip
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
1989
Key Grip
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
1989
Dolly Grip
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
1989
Key Grip
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
1988
Key Grip
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
1988
Key Grip
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
A former Army Special Forces soldier and his retired combat dog battle for survival after a plane crash deep in the unforgiving Alaskan wilderness.