Pierre Angnieux ExcelLens in Cinematography Tribute to Vilmos Zsigmond

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Pierre Ang nieux ExcelLens in Cinematography Tribute to Vilmos Zsigmond

Pierre Ang nieux ExcelLens in Cinematography Tribute to Vilmos Zsigmond

May 7, 2014

In 2013, Ang nieux, as Cannes Film Festival Official Partner, organized its first event and tribute to a prominent international director of photography, Philippe Rousselot. This year, Ang nieux is honoring the Hungarian Director of Photography, Vilmos Zsigmond. The ceremony will take place in the Palais des Festival (Bunuel theater), in the presence of many distinguished film industry personalities, including prominent directors, actors and producers who have worked closely with Mr.Vilmos Zsigmond throughout his successful career.

In 1956, Vilmos Zsigmond shot the Hungarian revolution and escaped the country with his films and reached the United States. He attempted to break into the film industry as director of photography working on many low-budget independent films. In 1971, Robert Altman hired him on McCabe & Mrs. Miller. It was the beginning of his Hollywood career. They worked again on Images and The Long Goodbye. Zsigmond's filmography includes such classics as Deliverance by John Boorman, Heavens Gate and The Deer Hunter by Michael Cimino, Obsession, Blow out, The Black Dahlia by Brian de Palma, and Jerry Schatzberg's Scarecrow, Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival in 1973. In 1977, he won the Oscar for Best Cinematography for Steven Spielbergs Close Encounters of the Third Kind. In 1999 Zsigmond received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC). Among his latest works, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger by Woody Allen in 2010.

About Thales Ang nieux

Thales group subsidiary since 1993, Thales Ang nieux is the world-renowned manufacturer of high-tech optical and optronic sytems. Ang nieux is a worldwide recognized brand of zoom lenses for motion picture production. Awarded four times by the Academy of Motion picture Arts and Sciences in 1964,1989 and 2008, and by the Society of Camera Operators in 2012, Angenieux lenses are utilized all around the world by the most demanding image professionals. Presently, Thales Ang nieux is introducing major innovations, like the brand new ultra-compact anamorphic zoom lens for cinema scope production, and continue to revolutionize cinema industry uses.

In 2013, among many others, Best Film and Best Foreign Film Oscar Winners, 12 Years a Slave by Steve McQueen and The Great Beauty by Paolo Sorrentino both used Angenieux Lens. At Cannes, this year, among selected movies : Grace de Monaco by Olivier Dahan, Saint Laurent by Bertrand Bonello, Deux jours, une nuit by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, The Search by Michel Hazanavicius, Bird People by Pascale Ferran, Respire by M lanie Laurent, Xenia by Panos Koutras.

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