Vilmos Zsigmond

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Vilmos Zsigmond (2008)

Vilmos Zsigmond [ ˈvilmoʃ ˈʒiɡmond ] (born June 16, 1930 in Szeged , † January 1, 2016 in Big Sur , California ) was a Hungarian-American cameraman .

Life

Zsigmond studied from 1951 to 1955 at the Budapest Academy of Drama and Film (Színház- és Filmművészeti Főiskola) , with György Illés and János Badal , among others .

He was an eyewitness to the Soviet army invasion of Budapest in 1956 . Together with his friend László Kovács , he photographed the events and then fled the country with Kovács. He went to the USA and came to film through photography. In the 1960s, he directed the camera in numerous second rate films - mostly horror films . His breakthrough to become one of the best cameramen in the USA came in 1971 with McCabe & Mrs. Miller , directed by Robert Altman .

In 1978 he won the Oscar for Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind . He received three other nominations in 1979 for Michael Cimino's Going Through Hell , 1985 for People by the River by Mark Rydell and 2007 for The Black Dahlia by Brian De Palma . In 1998 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Cinematographers .

Vilmos Zsigmond (2004)

Filmography (selection)

literature

Web links

Commons : Vilmos Zsigmond  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. 'Deer Hunter,' 'Close Encounters' Cinematographer Dies at 85
  2. ^ In Purgatory of Light in FAZ on February 5, page 12.
  3. Vilmos Zsigmond Biography at nytimes.com, accessed November 30, 2012.
  4. Vilmos Zsigmond at cinematographers.nl, accessed on November 30, 2012.