Close Encounters Cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond Dies at 85

[WhiteTara]

http://www.people.com/article/Vilmos-Zsigmond-cinematographer-dies

Oscar-winning cinematography Vilmos Zsigmond, who worked on Close Encounters of the Third Kind and The Deer Hunter, among others, died Jan. 1 at 85, his business partner Yuri Neyman confirmed.

Zsigmond's five-decade career included work on Deliverance, Blow Out, The Ghost and the Darkness and The Long Goodbye. He won an Academy Award for Close Encounters and was nominated for his work in The Deer Hunter, The River and The Black Dahlia.

More recently, Zsigmond shot a number of episodes of Mindy Kaling's sitcom The Mindy Project. In 2003, he was ranked among the 10 most influential cinematographers in film history in a survey by the International Cinematographers Guild.

[shenmue]

1. Rest in peace

[livetohike]

2. Rest in peace. Thanks for making two of my favorite movies so hauntingly

beautiful.

[edbermac]

3. Also shot Heaven's Gate

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Worked right to the end. Had 5 announced projects on IMDB!






RIP

[REP]

4. What an odd coincidence

I just heard his name mentioned on an American Dad rerun and I just rewatched Deliverance.

His work was very nice. It never called attention to itself, yet was always impeccable.

[hunter]

5. I loved the cinematography on Close Encounters.

The script wasn't what I look for in science fiction, but the cinematography made the movie worth watching.

Extra points for Francois Truffaut.

[winstars]

6. He and Lazlo Kovacs filmed the Russians violently putting down the 1956 Hungarian uprising...

Using their film school equipment, they then smuggled the film (and themselves) out of the country. I think any film that we see of this event in documentaries was shot by these two greats.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1054118/