{"id":40815,"date":"2016-01-04T08:41:29","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T22:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/?p=40815"},"modified":"2016-01-04T08:41:29","modified_gmt":"2016-01-03T22:11:29","slug":"vale-vilmos-zsigmond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/2016\/01\/04\/vale-vilmos-zsigmond\/","title":{"rendered":"Vale – Vilmos Zsigmond"},"content":{"rendered":"
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VIlmos Zsigmond – 1930-2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Academy Award-winning cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond, best known for his work during the 70’s with Spielberg and Robert Altman, has passed away.<\/p>\n

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Following his emigration to America from Hungary in 1962, Vilmos Zsigmond moved to Los Angeles and began working in photo labs as a photographer\u00a0and technician. Early films to feature his cinematography work include The Sadist<\/em> (1963), What’s Up Front<\/em> (1964) and The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living And Became Mixed-Up Zombies<\/em> (1964).<\/p>\n

In 1971 Zsigmond worked on the Robert Altman film McCabe & Mrs Miller<\/em>, which gave him his first real break into the big-time. He would then work on Deliverance<\/em> (1973) for John Boorman, The Long Goodbye<\/em> (1973) – again with Altman –\u00a0The Sugarland Express<\/em> (1974) and Close Encounters Of The Third Kind<\/em> (1977) for Steven Spielberg, The Deer Hunter<\/em> (1978) for Michael Cimino, and the 1980 box-office bomb, Heaven’s Gate<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Later films include Brian DePalma’s Blow Out<\/em> (1981), Phillip Noyce’s Sliver<\/em> (1993), Richard Donner’s Maverick<\/em> (1994) and Assassins<\/em> (1995), the Val Kilmer film The Ghost & The Darkness<\/em> (1996), Kevin Smith’s Jersey Girl<\/em> (2004), and Melinda & Melinda<\/em> for Woody Allen.<\/p>\n

Vilmos Zsigmond received the Academy Award for Close Encounters<\/em> (and was nominated a further three times), received a BAFTA for The Deer Hunter<\/em>, and was listed in 2003 as one of the ten most influential cinematographers of all time.<\/p>\n

Mr Zsigmond passed away on January 1, aged 85.<\/p>\n

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