{"id":68233,"date":"2016-01-03T21:31:57","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T02:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=68233"},"modified":"2016-01-03T21:31:57","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T02:31:57","slug":"vilmos-zsigmond-deer-hunter-close-encounters-cinematographer-dies-at-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/01\/03\/vilmos-zsigmond-deer-hunter-close-encounters-cinematographer-dies-at-85\/","title":{"rendered":"Vilmos Zsigmond, &#8216;Deer Hunter,&#8217; &#8216;Close Encounters&#8217; cinematographer, dies at 85"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_68280\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-68280\" style=\"width: 391px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/391px-Vilmos_Zsigmond_KVIFF.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-68280\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-68280\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/391px-Vilmos_Zsigmond_KVIFF.jpg\" alt=\"Legendary cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond (Wikipedia photo)\" width=\"391\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/391px-Vilmos_Zsigmond_KVIFF.jpg 391w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/391px-Vilmos_Zsigmond_KVIFF-244x300.jpg 244w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 391px) 100vw, 391px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-68280\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Legendary cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond<br \/>(<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vilmos_Zsigmond\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a> photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LOS ANGELES\u2014The legendary cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond, best known for \u201cThe Deer Hunter\u201d and \u201cClose Encounters of the Third Kind,\u201d has died.<\/p>\n<p>His business partner Yuri Neyman confirmed that Zsigmond died on Friday in Big Sur, California. He was 85.<\/p>\n<p>The Hungarian-born Zsigmond helped define cinema&#8217;s American New Wave in the 1970s through iconic collaborations and a preference for natural light. He first gained renown for his collaboration with Robert Altman on classics &#8220;McCabe &amp; Mrs. Miller&#8221; and \u201cThe Long Goodbye.\u201d In addition to his work on Michael Cimino&#8217;s classic \u201cThe Deer Hunter,\u201d for which he earned an Oscar nomination, Zsigmond also worked with Brian De Palma on a number of films including \u201cBlow Out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zsigmond&#8217;s sole Oscar win was for Steven Spielberg&#8217;s \u201cClose Encounters of the Third Kind.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES\u2014The legendary cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond, best known for \u201cThe Deer Hunter\u201d and \u201cClose Encounters of the Third Kind,\u201d has &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":68280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-68233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-original","mauthors-lindsey-bahr","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}