# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tony-gaudio
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:22:22.982Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tony-gaudio"
name: "Tony Gaudio"
slug: "tony-gaudio"
description: "Gaetano (Tony) Gaudio, A.S.C. was a pioneer Italian-American cinematographer of more than 1000 films. Gaudio won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for Anthony Adverse, becoming the first Italian to have won an Oscar, and was nominated five additional times for Hell's Angels, Juarez, The Letter, Corvette K-225, and A Song to Remember. He is cited as the first to have created a montage sequence for a film in The Mark of Zorro. He was among the founders of the American Society of Cinematographers, and served as president from 1924 until 1925."
tagline: "Italian American cinematographer (1883–1951)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tony_Gaudio_on_Experiment_Perilous.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1883-11-20"
deathDate: "1951-08-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.9913793103448276
  historical:           11.81836
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0309974/"
    handle:    "nm0309974"
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    title: "Тоні Гаудіо"
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    title: "توني غاوديو"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Τόνι Γκαούντιο"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tony Gaudio"
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    title: "Tony Gaudio"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Gaudio"
    title: "Tony Gaudio"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tony Gaudio"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump