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).

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Alcaine and the second or maternal family name is Escaño.

José Luis Alcaine
Jose Luis Alcaine at Berlinale 2017
Born	José Luis Alcaine Escaño (1938-12-26) 26 December 1938 (age 86) Tangier International Zone
Occupation	Cinematographer
Years active	1965–present

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.^[1]

Filmography

• Vera, un cuento cruel (1973)
• Corazón solitario (1973)
• El Niño es nuestro (1973)
• Yo la vi primero (1974)
• País, S.A. (1975)
• Ya soy mujer (1975)
• Pepita Jiménez (1975)
• Who Can Kill a Child? (1976)
• Retrato de familia (1976)
• Dios bendiga cada rincón de esta casa (1977)
• El Puente (1977)
• Marián (1977)
• Stay as You Are (1978)
• Vámonos, Bárbara (1978)
• Red Gold (1978)
• Soldados (1978)
• Girl with the Golden Panties (1980)
• La Campanada (1980)
• Murder in the Central Committee (1982)
• La triple muerte del tercer personaje (1982)
• Demons in the Garden (1982)
• El Sur (1983)
• Tasio (1984)
• Akelarre (1984)
• El Caso Almería (1984)
• The Court of the Pharaoh (1985)
• The Lost Paradise (1985)
• La reina del mate (1985)
• Rustlers' Rhapsody (1985)
• The House Must Be Unmade (1986)
• The Knight of the Dragon (1985)
• Voyage to Nowhere (1986)
• Mambru Went to War (1986)
• Half of Heaven (1986)
• Barbablú, Barbablú (1987)
• El Lute: Run for Your Life (1987)
• Malaventura (1988)
• Jarrapellejos (1988)
• El Lute II: Tomorrow I'll be Free (1988)
• Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)
• The Sea and Time (1989)
• Twisted Obsession (1989)
• Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1989)
• Dancing Machine (1990)
• Solo o en compañía de otros (1991)
• Hay que zurrar a los pobres (1991)
• Ay Carmela (1991)
• El Sur (1992)
• Amantes (1992)
• Belle Époque (1992)
• The Bird of Happiness (1993)
• Intruder (1993)
• Golden Balls (1993)
• Jamón, jamón (1993)
• The Turkish Passion (1994)
• The Tit and the Moon (1994)
• Two Much (1995)
• Beyond the Garden (1996)
• Libertarias (1996)
• Tramway to Malvarrosa (1997)
• In Praise of Older Women (1997)
• My Brother's Gun (1997)
• Gunslinger's Revenge (1998)
• Don Juan (1998)
• The Lost Lover (1999)
• Jealousy (1999)
• Blast from the Past (1999)
• I Know Who You Are (2000)
• Sound of the Sea (2001)
• Girl from Rio (2001)
• Don Quixote, Knight Errant (2002)
• The Dancer Upstairs (2002)
• South from Granada (2003)
• Bad Education (2004)
• The Whore and the Whale (2004)
• Roma (2004)
• La vida perra de Juanita Narboni [es] (2005)
• Life and Colour (2005)
• Volver (2006)
• Tirant lo Blanc (2006)
• Theresa: The Body of Christ (2007)
• Always Yours (2007)
• 13 Roses (2007)
• Los Cuernos de Don Friolera (2008)
• Las Galas del Difunto (2008)
• The Ruins of My Life (2008)
• Rivals (2008)
• The Skin I Live In (2011)
• Passion (2012)
• I'm So Excited (2013)
• Altamira (2016)
• Wild Oats (2016)
• The Queen of Spain (2016)
• Everybody Knows (2018)
• Pain and Glory (2019)
• Domino (2019)
• The Human Voice (2020)
• Parallel Mothers (2021)