Walter Volpatto

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Walter Volpatto
Born (1971-01-15) 15 January 1971 (age 53)
Turin, Piedmont, Italy
Website www.waltervolpatto.com

Walter Volpatto is an American motion picture colourist based in Hollywood, California.

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Career

Volpatto grades for some of Hollywood's most visionary directors and cinematographers, such as Francis Ford Coppola (Megalopolis), Christopher Nolan (Dunkirk), Peter Farrelly (Green Book), and Rian Johnson (Star Wars: The Last Jedi).

Volpatto has received awards and nominations from the Hollywood Professional Association for Outstanding Color Grading awards for “Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty” (2023), “Sweet Tooth” (2021) and “Green Book” (2019). [1] He also earned FilmLight Color Award nominations for “Winning Time” (2022, 2023). [2] His wide-ranging credits include such memorable features as “Hustlers,” “Red Notice,” “Moonfall,” “Rampage,” “Interstellar,” “San Andreas,” “Bad Moms,” “Independence Day: Resurgence”], and “The Master.”

An Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Member, and Associate Member of the ASC, Volpatto is also a consultant to the Academy Science and Technology Council, including the Academy's case study in film-to-digital reformatting and remastering using ACES, (the Academy Color Encoding System), featuring Marcus Dillistone's Royal Premiered film, The Troop. [3]

In November 2023, Volpatto joined Hollywood post production facility Picture Shop, [4] [5] having previously been at Company 3, EFilm, [6] and Fotokem.

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