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Vilmos Zsigmond
Camera
16 Jun 1930
† 01 Jan 2016
Szeged, Hungary
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, T...
Also Known As
William Zsigmond, William Zsigmund





















