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Vilmos Zsigmond
- Born
- Jun 16, 1930 · Aged 85
- Died
- Jan 1, 2016
- Place of birth
- Szeged, Hungary
- Gender
- Male
- Movie credits
- 25
- TV credits
- 1
- Directing credits
- 1
Also known as (2)
- William Zsigmond
- William Zsigmund
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,…
