Vilmos Zsigmond
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, Images and The Long Goodbye; with Brian De Palma, on Obsession, Blow Out, The Bonfire of the Vanities and The Black Dahlia; with Michael Cimino; and, late in his career, with Woody Allen.
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Movies (112)
Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson
2019
Spielberg
2017 · Self
Close Encounters with Vilmos Zsigmond
2016 · Self
Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks
2014 · Director of Photography
God the Father
2014 · Director of Photography
Compulsion
2013 · Director of Photography
Black and White in Color: Vilmos Zsigmond on 'Blow Out'
2012 · Self
Side by Side
2012 · Self
Woody Allen: A Documentary
2011 · Self
The Maiden Danced to Death
2011 · Director of Photography
Conocerás al hombre de tus sueños
2010 · Director of Photography
A Cinematic Life: The Art and Influence of Conrad Hall
2010 · Self
Louis
2010 · Hungarian Photographer, Director of Photography
No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos
2009 · Self
Torn from the Flag
2007 · Executive Producer, Director of Photography
Cassandra's Dream
2007 · Director of Photography
La Dalia Negra
2006 · Director of Photography
Who Needs Sleep?
2006 · Self
Surrender, Dorothy
2006 · Director of Photography
Melinda y Melinda
2004 · Director of Photography
Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of Heaven's Gate
2004 · Self
Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession
2004 · Self
Padre Soltero
2004 · Director of Photography
Rescate En El Tiempo
2003 · Second Unit Director of Photography
Imagining Images
2003 · Self
Who Killed 'Winter Kills'?
2003 · Self
Ban Bánk
2003 · Director of Photography
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
2003 · Self
Return of the "Hired Hand"
2003 · Himself
Vilmos Zsigmond Flashes 'The Long Goodbye'
2002 · Self
Character Building: Inside 'Life As a House'
2002 · Self
Life as a House
2001 · Director of Photography
'Obsession' Revisited
2001 · Self
The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
2001 · Self
El cuerpo
2001 · Director of Photography
Light Keeps Me Company
2000 · Self, Director of Photography
Altman on His Own Terms
2000 · Self
The Argument
1999 · Director of Photography
Corazones apasionados
1998 · Director of Photography
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
1997 · Self
Garras
1996 · Director of Photography
Asesinos
1995 · Director of Photography
The Crossing Guard
1995 · Director of Photography
Maverick
1994 · Albert Bierstadt, Director of Photography
Entre dos mujeres
1994 · Director of Photography
Sliver: Una invasión a la intimidad
1993 · Director of Photography
Stalin
1992 · Director of Photography
Visions of Light
1992 · Self
The Long Shadow
1992 · Director
La Hoguera De Las Vanidades
1990 · Director of Photography
The Two Jakes
1990 · Director of Photography
Fat Man and Little Boy
1989 · Director of Photography
Journey to Spirit Island
1988 · Director of Photography
The Witches of Eastwick
1987 · Director of Photography
Real Genius
1985 · Director of Photography
The River
1984 · Director of Photography
No Small Affair
1984 · Director of Photography
Table for Five
1983 · Director of Photography
Jinxed!
1982 · Director of Photography
The Border
1982 · Additional Photography
Blow Out
1981 · Director of Photography
Heaven's Gate
1980 · Director of Photography
The Rose
1979 · Director of Photography
Flesh & Blood
1979 · Director of Photography
Winter Kills
1979 · Director of Photography
The Deer Hunter
1978 · Director of Photography
The Last Waltz
1978 · Additional Director of Photography
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977 · Director of Photography
Obsession
1976 · Director of Photography
Death Riders
1976 · Director of Photography
Sweet Revenge
1976 · Director of Photography
Iron and Horse
1975 · Director of Photography
Mahogany
1975 · Additional Photography
Funny Lady
1975 · Additional Photography
The Girl from Petrovka
1974 · Director of Photography
The Sugarland Express
1974 · Director of Photography
Cinderella Liberty
1973 · Director of Photography
Scarecrow
1973 · Director of Photography
The Long Goodbye
1973 · Director of Photography
Images
1972 · Director of Photography
Deliverance
1972 · Director of Photography
The Hired Hand
1971 · Director of Photography
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
1971 · Director of Photography
Red Sky at Morning
1971 · Director of Photography
The Ski Bum
1971 · Director of Photography
Threshold
1971 · Director of Photography
Horror of the Blood Monsters
1970 · Director of Photography
A Long Way from Nowhere
1970 · Cinematography
Futz
1969 · Director of Photography
Five Bloody Graves
1969 · Director of Photography
The Monitors
1969 · Director of Photography
The Picasso Summer
1969 · Director of Photography
The Name of the Game Is Kill
1968 · Director of Photography
Prelude
1968 · Director of Photography
Blood of Ghastly Horror
1967 · Director of Photography
The Fiend with the Electronic Brain
1967 · Cinematography
Jennie: Wife/Child
1967 · Director of Photography
Mondo Mod
1967 · Director of Photography
1999 A.D.
1967 · Director of Photography
Road to Nashville
1966 · Director of Photography
Rat Fink
1965 · Cinematography, Director of Photography
Psycho a Go Go
1965 · Director of Photography
Summer Children
1965 · Director of Photography
Deadwood '76
1965 · Director of Photography
Tales of a Salesman
1965 · Director of Photography
The Nasty Rabbit
1964 · Director of Photography
The Time Travelers
1964 · Director of Photography
What's Up Front!
1964 · Director of Photography
The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies
1964 · Camera Operator
Living Between Two Worlds
1963 · Director of Photography
The Sadist
1963 · Director of Photography
I Hear the Carpenter Singing
1963 · Cinematography
