Vilmos Zsigmond is a Hungarian-American cinematographer. He was born in Szeged, Hungary, and studied cinema at the State Academy of Theatre and Film Art in Budapest. Together with his friend and fellow student László Kovács, he filmed the events of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution in Budapest and then smuggled the film out of the country shortly afterwards. In 1962 he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. Wikipedia
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Along with László Kovács, a fellow student who fled Hungary in 1956, Zsigmond rose to prominence in the 1970s. He is known for his use of natural light and vivid use of color on features such as The Long Goodbye (1973) and Close Encounters of the Third Ki www.imdb.com/name/nm0005936/