# Vilmos Zsigmond filmography

Cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond, also formerly credited as William Zsigmond, was nominated for four Academy Awards for Best Cinematography (Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Deer Hunter, The River, and The Black Dahlia), winning once for his work on Close Encounters of the Third Kind. He also won two American Society of Cinematographers Awards, one Primetime Emmy Award, and one British Academy Film Award.
This article includes all of Zsigmond's credits as a cinematographer both in film and television.

## Short film

| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
| 1953 | A Föld | József Zsuffa | |
| 1955 | Hajnal elött | József Zsuffa | |
| 1967 | 1999 A.D. | Lee Madden | |
| 1968 | Prelude | John Astin | |
| 1971 | Threshold | J. Maynard Lovins Stan Wells | |
| 1975 | Iron and Horse | Karl Bardosh | |
| 1997 | Fantasy for a New Age | Richard Caesar | |
| 1999 | The Argument | Donald Cammell | Filmed in 1971 |
| 2004 | Medicine Chest | Douglas Busby | Video short |
| 2012 | Kickstart Theft | Fred Goodich | |

## Feature film

Director
* The Long Shadow (1992)
Cinematographer
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
| 1963 | The Sadist | James Landis | |
| 1963 | Living Between Two Worlds | Bobby Johnson | With Lee Strosnider |
| 1964 | What's Up Front! | Bob Wehling | |
| 1964 | The Time Travelers | Ib Melchior | |
| 1964 | The Nasty Rabbit | James Landis | |
| 1965 | Deadwood '76 | James Landis | With Lew Guinn |
| 1965 | Tales of a Salesman | Don Russell | Uncredited |
| 1965 | Summer Children | James Bruner | |
| 1965 | Rat Fink | James Landis | |
| 1965 | Psycho A-Go-Go | Al Adamson | |
| 1967 | The Road to Nashville | Will Zens | With Leif Rise |
| 1967 | Blood of Ghastly Horror | Al Adamson | With Louis Horvath |
| 1968 | The Name of the Game Is Kill! | Gunnar Hellström | |
| 1968 | Jennie: Wife/Child | Robert Carl Cohen (Uncredited) James Landis (Uncredited) | |
| 1969 | Satan's Sadists | Al Adamson | Uncredited |
| 1969 | The Monitors | Jack Shea | |
| 1969 | Futz | Tom O'Horgan | |
| 1969 | Five Bloody Graves | Al Adamson | |
| 1969 | The Picasso Summer | Serge Bourguignon Robert Sallin (Uncredited) | |
| 1970 | Horror of the Blood Monsters | Al Adamson | With William G. Troiano |
| 1971 | Red Sky at Morning | James Goldstone | |
| 1971 | McCabe & Mrs. Miller | Robert Altman | |
| 1971 | The Hired Hand | Peter Fonda | |
| 1971 | The Ski Bum | Bruce D. Clark | |
| 1972 | Images | Robert Altman | |
| 1972 | Deliverance | John Boorman | |
| 1972 | Country Music | Robert Hinkle | With Gary Galbraith |
| 1973 | The Long Goodbye | Robert Altman | |
| 1973 | Scarecrow | Jerry Schatzberg | |
| 1973 | Cinderella Liberty | Mark Rydell | |
| 1974 | The Sugarland Express | Steven Spielberg | |
| 1974 | The Girl from Petrovka | Robert Ellis Miller | |
| 1975 | Funny Lady | Herbert Ross | Uncredited |
| 1976 | Sweet Revenge | Jerry Schatzberg | |
| 1976 | Obsession | Brian De Palma | |
| 1977 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Steven Spielberg | |
| 1978 | The Deer Hunter | Michael Cimino | |
| 1979 | Winter Kills | William Richert | |
| 1979 | The Rose | Mark Rydell | |
| 1980 | Heaven's Gate | Michael Cimino | |
| 1981 | Blow Out | Brian De Palma | |
| 1982 | Jinxed! | Don Siegel | |
| 1983 | Table for Five | Robert Lieberman | |
| 1984 | No Small Affair | Jerry Schatzberg | |
| 1984 | The River | Mark Rydell | |
| 1985 | Real Genius | Martha Coolidge | |
| 1987 | The Witches of Eastwick | George Miller | |
| 1989 | Fat Man and Little Boy | Roland Joffé | |
| 1990 | Journey to Spirit Island | László Pal | |
| 1990 | The Two Jakes | Jack Nicholson | |
| 1990 | The Bonfire of the Vanities | Brian De Palma | |
| 1993 | Sliver | Phillip Noyce | |
| 1994 | Intersection | Mark Rydell | |
| 1994 | Maverick | Richard Donner | Also made a cameo as Albert Bierstadt |
| 1995 | The Crossing Guard | Sean Penn | |
| 1995 | Assassins | Richard Donner | |
| 1996 | The Ghost and the Darkness | Stephen Hopkins | |
| 1998 | Playing by Heart | Willard Carroll | |
| 1998 | Illegal Music | Zane Zidel | |
| 2001 | The Body | Jonas McCord | |
| 2001 | Life as a House | Irwin Winkler | |
| 2002 | Bánk bán | Csaba Káel | |
| 2004 | Jersey Girl | Kevin Smith | |
| 2004 | Melinda and Melinda | Woody Allen | |
| 2006 | The Black Dahlia | Brian De Palma | |
| 2007 | Cassandra's Dream | Woody Allen | |
| 2010 | You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger | Woody Allen | |
| 2010 | Louis | Dan Pritzker | Also made a cameo as "Hungarian Photographer" |
| 2011 | The Maiden Danced to Death | Endre Hules | With Zoltan Honti |
| 2013 | Compulsion | Egidio Coccimiglio | |
| 2014 | Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks | Arthur Allan Seidelman | |

## Television

| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
| 1969 | The Bold Ones: The Protectors | Robert Day | Episode "A Case of Good Whiskey at Christmas Time" |
| 2001 | The Mists of Avalon | Uli Edel | Miniseries |
| 2012–14 | The Mindy Project | Charles McDougall Michael Weaver Michael Spiller | Episodes "Pilot", "Girl Next Door" and "Danny and Mindy" |
TV movies
| Year | Title | Director |
| 1969 | Baja Marimba Band | Bill Edwards |
| 1979 | Flesh & Blood | Jud Taylor |
| 1992 | Stalin | Ivan Passer |
| 2006 | Surrender, Dorothy | Charles McDougall |

## Documentary works

Film
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
| 1957 | Ungarn in Flammen | Stefan Erdélyi | With László Kovács and Franz Vass (as Ferencz Vass) |
| 1967 | Mondo Mod | Peter Perry Jr. | With László Kovács (as Leslie Kovacks) |
| 1969 | Hot Rod Action | Gene McCabe | With Vilis Lapenieks and Mario Tosi |
| 1976 | Death Riders | Jim Wilson | With Jim Wison |
| 2000 | Ljuset håller mig sällskap | Carl-Gustav Nykvist | |
| 2007 | Torn from the Flag | Endre Hules Klaudia Kovacs | With Zoltan Honti, László Kovács and Justin Schein; Also credited as executive producer |
| 2014 | God the Father | Simon Fellows | |
Short film
| Year | Title | Director |
| 1963 | Story of the Wholesale Produce Market | Leonard Greenberg |
TV movies
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
| 1965 | The Market | Jack Shepard | |
| 1968 | The World of Animals: Big Cats, Little Cats | Bud Wiser | With John A. Alonzo, David Blewitt, Robert Grant, J. Barry Herron and Fred Kaplan |
| 1980 | Making Xanadu: The Musical Fantasy Movie | Alan Metter | With László Kovács |