worked with George Miller on The Witches of Eastwick and with Kevin Smith on Jersey Girl. He also worked with Woody Allen on Melinda and Melinda, Cassandra's Dream, and You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger. Zsigmond's television work includes the HBO miniseries Stalin, for which he won the 1993 Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Cinematography for a Miniseries or a Special. He was nominated for an Emmy for his work on 2001 miniseries The Mists of Avalon. Zsigmond also shot 24 episodes of The Mindy Project between 2012 and 2014. Vilmos' life and career was featured in No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos, a bio-documentary that aired on PBS's Independent Lens in 2009. In 2011 Zsigmond co-founded the Global Cinematography Institute in Los Angeles, California along with fellow cinematographer Yuri Neyman. The Institute provides an advanced cinematography educational program for postgraduate students and veteran filmmakers. He was a longtime user and endorser of Tiffen filters and is associated with the technique known as flashing or pre-fogging, which involves carefully exposing the film negative to a small, controlled amount of light in order to create a muted color palette. Death On January 1, 2016, Zsigmond died at his home in Big Sur, California at age 85. Awards and honors Oscar, 1977, Close Encounters of the Third Kind BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography, 1978, The Deer Hunter National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Cinematography, 1973, The Long Goodbye Emmy Award, 1993, Stalin Nomination, BAFTA, 1971, McCabe & Mrs. Miller Nomination, BAFTA, 1977, Close Encounters of the Third Kind Nomination, Academy Award, 1978, The Deer Hunter Nomination, Academy Award, 1984, Mark Rydell's The River Nomination, Emmy Award, 2002, Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon Nomination, Academy Award, 2006, The Black Dahlia Lifetime Achievement Award, 1997, from the Camerimage Festival Lifetime Achievement Award, 1999, from the American Society of Cinematographers Lifetime Achievement Award, 2010, from the Manaki Brothers Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award, 2014, from the Cannes Film Festival Filmography The Hired Hand (1971) McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) Images (1972) Deliverance (1972) The Long Goodbye (1973) Scarecrow (1973) Cinderella Liberty (1973) The Sugarland Express (1974) Obsession (1976) Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) The Deer Hunter (1978) The Rose (1979) Heaven's Gate (1980) Blow Out (1981) The River (1984) Real Genius (1985) The Witches of Eastwick (1987) The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) The Two Jakes