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CineFest life achievement award “big deal,” says Zsigmond
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(MTI) – A life achievement award is always a “big deal” because it is a recognition of one’s entire life work, Academy Award-winning Hungarian-American cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond said after getting a life achievement award from the CineFest Miskolc International Film Festival.
The 84-year-old cinematographer who emigrated to the US in 1956 said he was lucky throughout his Hollywood career because already during the 1970s he could choose which films he was interested in working. He added that he was always most attracted by films that focused on the people and even though the 1978 sci-fi Close Encounters of the Third Kind, for which he received the Academy Award, included special effects, it was essentially not about that.
Zsigmond said his best work to date was the 1978 Vietnam war drama The Deer Hunter but he liked all the films he had a hand in because they “all made sense”.
He said he had recently finished the documentary feature God the Father about a former mafia member and there are several other films in the pipeline.