American Cinematographer - December 1998 - 40

A Poignant

Pas de Deux

An elaborate

club sequence
was

staged

with 800
extras at L.A.'s

Mayan
Theater.

Positioned

on

balcony

a

about above
the floor, a
Technocrane

used to
home in on

was

Keenen

dancing with
Joan.The
location's
available
illumination

proved too
dim for

shooting, but
according to
Zsigmond, "On
a big set like
that with a lot
of people on
the dance

floor, you
don't have to
be a genius to

Zsigmond Earns ASC's Highest Honor

light. If you
light from all

T he American

the sides it
looks flat, so
we decided

had

a
deep and enduring influence on the art of contemporary
filmmaking. Zsigmond has compiled some 60 narrative film cred¬
its. He is the only person to earn both an Oscar and an Emmy for
cinematography - the Oscar in recognition of his outstanding
camerawork on Close Encounters ofthe Third Kind, and the Emmy

which side the

key light
should

Society of Cinematographers has announced that

| Vilmos Zsigmond, ASC will receive the organization's 1998 LifeI time Achievement Award, recognizing a body of work which has

come

from, and
used crossand backlight

for the HBO miniseries Stalin.

to create

separation."

"It's indescribably thrilling to receive and Oscar or an
Emmy," Zsigmond says. "I still remember that unbelievable feeling
when I heard my name called at the Oscars in 1977, and I got up
on the stage with millions of people
watching on TV. The ASC
Award is an even bigger honor, though, because it recognizes many
of my films, and it comes from my peers."
Zsigmond was also nominated for Oscars for photographing
The River and The Deer Hunter. His other credits include McCabe
and Mrs. Miller, Deliverance, The

Sugarland Express, The Long
Goodbye, The Rose, The Witches of Eastwick, Maverick and The
Ghost and the Darkness.
The Lifetime Award

dent

Woody Omens, who described Zsigmond

as an

announcement was

made

by ASC presi¬

"innovative cinematographer who has consistently

on the cutting edge to advance the art of filmmaking." He called Zsigmond a source of inspiration
for filmmakers in every part of the world, both for his stellar work and because he overcame incalculable

worked

odds, including a daring escape from Communist-controlled Hungary with future ASC peer Laszlo Kovacs,
to

achieve artistic

success.

Zsigmond will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award on February 21 at the 13th Annual ASC
Outstanding Achievement Awards ceremony, to be held at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles. A
comprehensive overview of Zsigmond's career, as well as more details about his honor, will appear in the
February 1999 issue of AC.
38 December 1998

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Bob Fisher



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