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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.
As actor
Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson
Spielberg
Close Encounters with Vilmos Zsigmond
Side by Side
Black and White in Color: Vilmos Zsigmond on 'Blow Out'
Woody Allen: A Documentary
Louis
A Cinematic Life: The Art and Influence of Conrad Hall
No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos
Who Needs Sleep?
Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession
Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of Heaven's Gate
Return of the "Hired Hand"
Imagining Images
Who Killed 'Winter Kills'?
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Vilmos Zsigmond Flashes 'The Long Goodbye'
Character Building: Inside 'Life As a House'
'Obsession' Revisited
The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
Light Keeps Me Company
Altman on His Own Terms
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
Maverick
Visions of Light
