Michael Chimino died

On July 2, an American film director, laureate of the Oscar Prize Michael Chimino, died in Los Angeles at the age of 77.

This was reported by TASS with reference to the director of the Cannes festival Thierry Fremo.

Michael Chimino was born in 1939 in New York, graduated from Yale University, worked in television, wrote a movie scene. The director of Chimino became the film “ Thunderbolt and Lightfoot , 1974) with Clint Eastwood.

His next picture, “The Deer Hunter” ( The Deer Hunter , 1978), dedicated to the topic of the War in Vietnam, won the Oscar, including in the nominations “Best Film” and “Best Director”.

Also, among the films of Jimino, “Gate Raya” ( Heaven's Gate , 1981), “The Year of the Dragon” ( Year of the Dragon , 1985), “Sicilian” ( The Sicilian , 1987), “The Watch of Despair” ( Desperate Houurs , 1990) and “The Lawser of the Sun” (The Sunchaser, ( The Suncher , 1996).

In 2007, the Shimino short film “ No Translation Needed ) became part of the cinema almanac“ each has its own cinema ”( Chacun Son Cinema ).