Vilmos Zsigmond

Vilmos Zsigmond (born on June 16, 1930, in Szeged, Hungary) is a cinematographer of motion pictures.

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June 16 - 1930 - Szeged - Hungary - Cinematographer - Motion pictures

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He was born in Hungary and studied cinema at the State Academy of Theatre and Film Art in Budapest. Together with his friend and fellow student László Kovács, he filmed the events of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution in Budapest and then smuggled the film out of the country shortly afterwards.

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Hungary - Cinema - Budapest - László Kovács - 1956 Hungarian Revolution

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They settled in Los Angeles and worked in photo labs as a technician and photographer. During the 1960s, he worked on many low-budget independent films and educational films as he attempted to break into the film industry. Some of the films that he worked on during this period credited him as "William Zsigmond".

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Los Angeles - 1960s

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He gained prominence during the 1970s working on Robert Altman's McCabe and Mrs. Miller and Steven Spielberg's 1977 film Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the latter of which won him an Academy award. Zsigmond has worked with Brian De Palma on Obsession, Blow Out, Bonfire of the Vanities, and The Black Dahlia, and with Michael Cimino on The Deer Hunter and Heaven's Gate.

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1970s - Robert Altman - McCabe and Mrs. Miller - Steven Spielberg - 1977 - Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Academy award - Brian De Palma - Obsession - Blow Out - Bonfire of the Vanities - The Black Dahlia - Michael Cimino - The Deer Hunter - Heaven's Gate

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He received a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999 from the American Society of Cinematographers.

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1999 - American Society of Cinematographers

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Has been a longtime user and endorser of Tiffen filters.

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