Vilmos Zsigmond
Vilmos Zsigmond [ vilmoʃ ʒiɡmond ] ( born June 16, 1930 in Szeged ) is a Hungarian- American cinematographer.
Life
Zsigmond studied from 1951 until 1955 the Budapest theater and film school ( Színház - és Filmművészeti Főiskola ), among others, György János Illés and Badal.
He was an eyewitness to the invasion of the Soviet army in Budapest in 1956. Together with his friend László Kovács, he photographed the events and then fled with Kovács from the country. He went to the USA and came across the photo work for the film. In the 1960s he led the camera in numerous second-rate films - mostly horror movies. His breakthrough as one of the best cinematographers in the U.S., he had 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 additional nominations 1979 go for Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter, 1985, for people on the river by Mark Rydell and 2007 for The Black Dahlia Brian De Palma. In 1998 he took the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Cinematographers in reception.