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CANNES 2014 Events

Vilmos Zsigmond honoured

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- The famous DoP of Hungarian descent will be honoured by Angénieux on the Croisette

Vilmos Zsigmond honoured

After Frenchman Philippe Rousselot in 2013, this year it is Vilmos Zsigmond who will be singled out by Angénieux (an official partner of the Cannes Festival) as it pays tribute to a DoP who has left his mark on world cinema. The ceremony will take place on Friday 23 May in the Buñuel Theatre at the Palais des Festivals, and will be attended by a great many professionals, actors, directors and producers who have worked with the famous Hungarian DoP.

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Born in 1930 and trained at the Academy of Drama and Film in Budapest, Vilmos Zsigmond went into self-imposed exile in the United States following the events of 1956 in Budapest. Having settled in Los Angeles, he started off working on small productions before seeing his career take off in the 1970s, after he worked on McCabe & Mrs Miller by Robert Altman. An Oscar winner in his special field in 1978 for Close Encounters of the Third Kind by Steven Spielberg and nominated three additional times (for Michael Cimino’s The Deer Hunter in 1979, The River by Mark Rydell in 1985 and Brian De Palma’s The Black Dahlia in 2007), his filmography also includes Heaven’s Gate by Michael Cimino; Deliverance by John Boorman; Scarecrow by Jerry Schatzberg (winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1973); Obsession, Blow Out and The Bonfire of the Vanities by Brian de Palma; The Rose by Mark Rydell; The Crossing Guard by Sean Penn; and three Woody Allen features (Melinda and Melinda, Cassandra’s Dream and You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger [+see also:
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). In 1999, the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) gave him a Lifetime Achievement Award.

In 2013, Angénieux, a specialist manufacturer of zoom lenses for cinema, saw its equipment used during the shooting of films such as 12 Years a Slave [+see also:
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, The Great Beauty [+see also:
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interview: Paolo Sorrentino
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]
, and among the titles selected this year at Cannes, Grace of Monaco [+see also:
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by Olivier Dahan, Bertrand Bonello’s Saint-Laurent [+see also:
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]
, Two Days, One Night [+see also:
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interview: Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne
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]
by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, The Search [+see also:
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Q&A: Michel Hazanavicius
film profile
]
by Michel Hazanavicius, Bird People [+see also:
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interview: Pascale Ferran
film profile
]
by Pascale Ferran, Respire [+see also:
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interview: Lou de Laâge
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]
by Mélanie Laurent, and Panos H Koutras’ Xenia [+see also:
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]
.

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(Translated from French)

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