Cinematographer Extraordinaire Vilmos Zsigmond Could Light Up the Night, and the Daytime Too

We lost another amazing artist.

LOS ANGELES, CA – 1990: Academy Award-winning cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond poses during a 1990 Los Angeles, California, photo portrait session. The Hungarian-born Zsigmond, a much-in-demand filmmaker in Hollywood, worked on the recent film “The Black Dahlia.” (Photo by George Rose/Getty Images)

“Zsigmond died on January 1, at age 85, leaving behind not just an almost uniformly gorgeous body of work, but also a track record of having worked with a wide range of directors of clashingly disparate temperaments and sensibilities, from loose-limbed iconoclast Altman to ardent craftsman Brian De Palma, from obsessive landscapist Michael Cimino to dreamspinner Steven Spielberg.”