Vilmos Zsigmond
Camera
- Born:
- 1930-06-16
- Died:
- 2016-01-01
- Place of birth:
- Szeged, Hungary
Biography
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
Filmography
Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson
Spielberg
Close Encounters with Vilmos Zsigmond
Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks
God the Father
Compulsion
Black and White in Color: Vilmos Zsigmond on 'Blow Out'
Side by Side
Woody Allen: A Documentary
The Maiden Danced to Death
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
A Cinematic Life: The Art and Influence of Conrad Hall
Louis
No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos
Torn from the Flag
Cassandra's Dream
The Black Dahlia
Who Needs Sleep?
Surrender, Dorothy
Melinda and Melinda
Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of Heaven's Gate
Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession
Jersey Girl
Timeline
Imagining Images
Who Killed 'Winter Kills'?
Ban Bánk
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Return of the "Hired Hand"
Vilmos Zsigmond Flashes 'The Long Goodbye'
Character Building: Inside 'Life As a House'
Life as a House
The Mists of Avalon
'Obsession' Revisited
The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
The Body
Light Keeps Me Company
Altman on His Own Terms
The Argument
Playing by Heart
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
The Ghost and the Darkness
Assassins
The Crossing Guard
Maverick
Intersection
Sliver
Stalin
Visions of Light
The Long Shadow
The Bonfire of the Vanities
The Two Jakes
Fat Man and Little Boy
Journey to Spirit Island
The Witches of Eastwick
Real Genius
The River
No Small Affair
Table for Five
Jinxed!