Vilmos Zsigmond filmography

Vilmos Zsigmond, 2004

Cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond, also formerly credited as William Zsigmond, was nominated for four Academy Awards for Best Cinematography (Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Deer Hunter, The River, and The Black Dahlia), winning once for his work on Close Encounters of the Third Kind.^[1] He also won two American Society of Cinematographers Awards, one Primetime Emmy Award, and one British Academy Film Award.

This article includes all of Zsigmond's credits as a cinematographer both in film and television.

Films[]

Year	Film	Director	Notes
1963	The Sadist	James Landis
1963	Living Between Two Worlds	Bobby Johnson
1964	What's Up Front!	Bob Wehling
	The Time Travelers	Ib Melchior
	The Nasty Rabbit	James Landis
1965	Deadwood '76	James Landis
	Tales of a Salesman	Don Russell
	Summer Children	James Bruner
	Rat Fink	James Landis
	Psycho A-Go-Go	Al Adamson
1967	The Road to Nashville	Will Zens	Shared credit with Leif Rise
1968	The Name of the Game Is Kill!	Gunnar Hellström
1968	Jennie: Wife/Child	Robert Carl Cohen James Landis
1969	The Picasso Summer	Serge Bourguignon Robert Sallin
	The Monitors	Jack Shea
	Five Bloody Graves	Al Adamson
	Futz	Tom O'Horgan
1970	Horror of the Blood Monsters	Al Adamson
1971	Red Sky at Morning	James Goldstone
	McCabe & Mrs. Miller	Robert Altman	Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography
	The Hired Hand	Peter Fonda
	The Ski Bum	Bruce D. Clark
1972	Images	Robert Altman	Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography
	Deliverance	John Boorman	Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography
	Country Music	Robert Hinkle
1973	The Long Goodbye	Robert Altman
	Scarecrow	Jerry Schatzberg
	Cinderella Liberty	Mark Rydell
1974	The Sugarland Express	Steven Spielberg
1974	The Girl from Petrovka	Robert Ellis Miller
1976	Sweet Revenge	Jerry Schatzberg
1976	Obsession	Brian De Palma
1977	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	Steven Spielberg	Academy Award for Best Cinematography Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography
1978	The Deer Hunter	Michael Cimino	BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography Nominated – Academy Award for Best Cinematography
1979	Winter Kills	William Richert
1979	The Rose	Mark Rydell
1980	Heaven's Gate	Michael Cimino
1981	Blow Out	Brian De Palma
1982	Jinxed!	Don Siegel
1983	Table for Five	Robert Lieberman
1984	No Small Affair	Jerry Schatzberg
1984	The River	Mark Rydell	Nominated – Academy Award for Best Cinematography
1985	Real Genius	Martha Coolidge
1987	The Witches of Eastwick	George Miller
1988	Journey to Spirit Island	László Pal
1989	Fat Man and Little Boy	Roland Joffé
1990	The Two Jakes	Jack Nicholson
1990	The Bonfire of the Vanities	Brian De Palma
1993	Sliver	Phillip Noyce
1994	Intersection	Mark Rydell
1994	Maverick	Richard Donner
1995	The Crossing Guard	Sean Penn
1995	Assassins	Richard Donner
1996	The Ghost and the Darkness	Stephen Hopkins	Nominated – American Society of Cinematographers Award
1998	Playing by Heart	Willard Carroll
1998	Illegal Music	Zane Zidel
2001	Life as a House	Irwin Winkler
2001	The Body	Jonas McCord
2002	Bánk bán	Csaba Káel
2004	Jersey Girl	Kevin Smith
2004	Melinda and Melinda	Woody Allen
2006	The Black Dahlia	Brian De Palma	Nominated – Academy Award for Best Cinematography Nominated – American Society of Cinematographers Award Nominated – Satellite Award for Best Cinematography
2007	Cassandra's Dream	Woody Allen
2010	You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger	Woody Allen
2010	Louis	Dan Pritzker
2011	The Maiden Danced to Death	Endre Hules	Shared credit with Zoltan Honti
2013	Compulsion	Egidio Coccimiglio
2014	Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks	Arthur Allan Seidelman

Short films[]

Year	Title	Director	Notes
1953	A Föld	József Zsuffa
1955	Hajnal elött	József Zsuffa
1968	Prelude	John Astin
1967	1999 A.D.	Lee Madden
1971	Threshold	J. Maynard Lovins Stan Wells
1975	Iron and Horse	Karl Bardosh
1999	The Argument	Donald Cammell	Filmed in 1971
2004	Medicine Chest	Douglas Busby
2012	Kickstart Theft	Fred Goodich

Documentary[]

Year	Film	Director	Notes
1963	Story of the Wholesale Produce Market	Leonard Greenberg	Documentary short
1967	Mondo Mod	Peter Perry Jr.
1969	Hot Rod Action	Gene McCabe
1976	Death Riders	Jim Wilson
2000	Ljuset håller mig sällskap	Carl-Gustav Nykvist
2007	Torn from the Flag	Endre Hules Klaudia Kovacs
2014	God the Father	Simon Fellows

Television[]

Year	Title	Director	Notes
1965	The Market	Jack Shepard	TV documentary
1968	The World of Animals: Big Cats, Little Cats	Bud Wiser	TV documentary
1969	The Bold Ones: The Protectors	Robert Day	Episode "A Case of Good Whiskey at Christmas Time"
1969	Baja Marimba Band	Bill Edwards	TV movie
1979	Flesh & Blood	Jud Taylor	TV movie
1980	Making Xanadu: The Musical Fantasy Movie	Alan Metter	TV documentary
1992	Stalin	Ivan Passer	TV movie Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography
2001	The Mists of Avalon	Uli Edel	Two episodes Nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography
2006	Surrender, Dorothy	Charles McDougall	TV movie
2012–14	The Mindy Project	Charles McDougall Michael Weaver Michael Spiller	3 episodes

References[]

^ Dagan, Carmel (January 3, 2016). "Vilmos Zsigmond, Oscar-Winning Cinematographer, Dies at 85". Variety. Penske Media Corporation. Retrieved November 14, 2016.

[1] Dagan, Carmel (January 3, 2016). "Vilmos Zsigmond, Oscar-Winning Cinematographer, Dies at 85". Variety. Penske Media Corporation. Retrieved November 14, 2016.

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