Biography
Vilmos Zsigmond was a Hungarian-American cinematographer. Born in Szeged, Hungary, on 16 June 1930, he studied cinematography at the Academy of Drama and Film in Budapest. He emigrated to the United States in 1957 after filming the Hungarian Revolution with fellow student László Kovács.
Zsigmond shot Deliverance (1972), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, and The Deer Hunter (1978), for which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography. He worked regularly with directors including Robert Altman, Steven Spielberg, Brian De Palma, Michael Cimino and Woody Allen. He received further Oscar nominations for The River (1984) and The Black Dahlia (2006). Zsigmond died on 1 January 2016.
