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.
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Films (121)

The Delights of the Garden
2025 · Director of Photography

Exorcismo: The Transgressive Legacy of Clasificada “S”
2024 · Self

Speak Sunlight
2023 · Director of Photography

Strange Way of Life
2023 · Director of Photography

Mágica Navidad
2021 · Director of Photography

Mères parallèles
2021 · Director of Photography

Les Coming Out
2020 · Director of Photography

La Voix humaine
2020 · Director of Photography

Domino - La guerre silencieuse
2019 · Director of Photography

Douleur et Gloire
2019 · Director of Photography

Everybody Knows
2018 · Director of Photography

La Reine d'Espagne
2016 · Director of Photography

Wild Oats
2016 · Director of Photography

Altamira
2016 · Director of Photography

Untied! Reflections on Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
2014 · Self

Aragón rodado
2014 · Self

Les amants passagers
2013 · Director of Photography

Passion
2013 · Director of Photography

La Banda Picasso
2013 · Director of Photography

La peau que j'habite
2011 · Director of Photography

Vacances à la Grecque
2009 · Director of Photography

Lolita's Club
2007 · Director of Photography

Les treize roses
2007 · Director of Photography

Theresa: The Body of Christ
2007 · Director of Photography

La faute
2006 · Director of Photography

The Maidens' Conspiracy
2006 · Director of Photography

Volver
2006 · Director of Photography

Vida y color
2005 · Director of Photography

The Wretched Life of Juanita Narboni
2005 · Director of Photography

Roma
2004 · Director of Photography

The Whore and the Whale
2004 · Director of Photography

La Mauvaise Éducation
2004 · Director of Photography

South from Granada
2003 · Director of Photography

Ruy Blas
2002 · Director of Photography

Nobody's Life
2002 · Cinematography

Dancer Upstairs
2002 · Director of Photography

Antonio, a Boy in Lisbon
2002 · Director of Photography

The Lost Lover
1999 · Director of Photography

Première sortie
1999 · Director of Photography

Gunslinger's Revenge
1998 · Director of Photography

Don Juan
1998 · Director of Photography

My Brother's Gun
1997 · Director of Photography

Más allá del jardín
1996 · Director of Photography

Freedomfighters
1996 · Director of Photography

Confidencias
1996 · Director of Photography

Two much
1995 · Director of Photography

Turkish Passion
1994 · Director of Photography

La Lune et le Téton
1994 · Director of Photography

Macho
1993 · Director of Photography

Intruso
1993 · Director of Photography

Belle Époque
1992 · Director of Photography

El sur
1992 · Cinematography

Jambon, Jambon
1992 · Director of Photography

Amants
1991 · Director of Photography

Dancing Machine
1990 · Cinematography

Ay, Carmela!
1990 · Director of Photography

Attache-moi !
1990 · Director of Photography

Twisted Obsession
1989 · Director of Photography

The Sea and the Weather
1989 · Director of Photography

Misadventure
1988 · Cinematography

El Lute II: Tomorrow I'll Be Free
1988 · Director of Photography

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
1988 · Director of Photography

Lute: Forge On or Die
1987 · Director of Photography

Casanova
1987 · Director of Photography

Voyage to Nowhere
1986 · Director of Photography

Half of Heaven
1986 · Director of Photography

Hay que deshacer la casa
1986 · Director of Photography

Mambru Went to War
1986 · Director of Photography

Star Knight
1985 · Director of Photography

The Court of the Pharaoh
1985 · Director of Photography

Rustlers' Rhapsody
1985 · Director of Photography

La reina del mate
1985 · Director of Photography

The Lost Paradise
1985 · Director of Photography

Tasio
1984 · Cinematography

Akelarre
1984 · Director of Photography

El caso Almería
1984 · Director of Photography

Después de… Primera parte: no se os puede dejar solos
1983 · Director of Photography

Después de… Segunda parte: atado y bien atado
1983 · Director of Photography

El Sur
1983 · Director of Photography

Murder in the Central Committee
1982 · Director of Photography

Bésame, tonta
1982 · Director of Photography

The Triple Death of the Third Character
1981 · Director of Photography

Per favore, occupati di Amelia
1981 · Director of Photography

La campanada
1980 · Director of Photography

Girl with the Golden Panties
1980 · Director of Photography

Gulliver
1979 · Director of Photography

From Hell to Victory
1979 · Director of Photography

Marián
1979 · Director of Photography

Soldados
1978 · Director of Photography

Let's Go, Barbara
1978 · Director of Photography

Stay as You Are
1978 · Director of Photography

Red Gold
1978 · Director of Photography

God Bless Each Corner of This House
1977 · Director of Photography

Goodbye Alicia
1977 · Director of Photography

María, la santa
1977 · Director of Photography

School Trip
1976 · Director of Photography

Family Portrait
1976 · Director of Photography

Who Can Kill a Child?
1976 · Director of Photography

Songs for After a War
1976 · Director of Photography

País S. A.
1975 · Director of Photography

A Diary of a Murderess
1975 · Director of Photography

Sensualidad
1975 · Director of Photography

The Devil's Exorcist
1975 · Director of Photography

Bride to Be
1975 · Director of Photography

¿... Y el prójimo?
1974 · Director of Photography

I Saw Her First
1974 · Director of Photography

The Lonely Heart
1973 · Director of Photography

El niño es nuestro
1973 · Director of Photography

El cronicón
1970 · Director of Photography
El último día de la humanidad
1969 · Cinematography

Paseo por los letreros de Madrid
1968 · Director of Photography

Tinto con amor
1968 · Director of Photography

Acteón
1967 · Still Photographer

Javier y los invasores del espacio
1967 · Director of Photography

Nine Letters to Berta
1966 · Still Photographer

Los buenos samaritanos
1966 · Director of Photography

Carmen de Carabanchel
1965 · Director of Photography

Anabel
1964 · Still Photographer

Adam's Perfection
· Director of Photography
El sastre del rey
· Director of Photography
Untitled Woody Allen Madrid Project
· Director of Photography





