Vilmos Zsigmond
Vilmos Zsigmond (June 16, 1930 – January 1, 2016) was a Hungarian-American cinematographer born in Szeged, Hungary. After studying cinematography in Budapest, he left Hungary following the 1956 revolution and settled in the United States, where he shot low-budget features before becoming one of the defining cinematographers of the New Hollywood era. He won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind and was nominated for The Deer Hunter, The River and The Black Dahlia. He worked repeatedly with Robert Altman, on McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Images and The Long Goodbye; with Brian De Palma, on Obsession, Blow Out, The Bonfire of the Vanities and The Black Dahlia; with Michael Cimino; and, late in his career, with Woody Allen.
Known For
Credits
- 2019 · Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson as
- 2017 · Spielberg as Self
- 2016 · Close Encounters with Vilmos Zsigmond as Self
- 2012 · Black and White in Color: Vilmos Zsigmond on 'Blow Out' as Self
- 2012 · Side by Side as Self
- 2011 · Woody Allen: A Documentary as Self
- 2010 · A Cinematic Life: The Art and Influence of Conrad Hall as Self
- 2010 · Louis as Hungarian Photographer
- 2009 · No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos as Self
- 2006 · Who Needs Sleep? as Self
- 2004 · Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of Heaven's Gate as Self
- 2004 · Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession as Self
- 2003 · Imagining Images as Self
- 2003 · Who Killed 'Winter Kills'? as Self
- 2003 · Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood as Self
- 2003 · Return of the "Hired Hand" as Himself
- 2002 · Vilmos Zsigmond Flashes 'The Long Goodbye' as Self
- 2002 · Character Building: Inside 'Life As a House' as Self
- 2001 · 'Obsession' Revisited as Self
- 2001 · The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' as Self
- 2000 · Light Keeps Me Company as Self
- 2000 · Altman on His Own Terms as Self
- 1997 · Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western as Self
- 1994 · Maverick as Albert Bierstadt
- 1992 · Visions of Light as Self
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self