Zsigmond's business partner, Yuri Neyman, said he died on Friday in Big Sur, California.
The film-maker won an Oscar for Steven Spielberg's 1977 blur Abutting Encounters and was nominated afresh a year after for The Deer Hunter.
He was aswell admired as an artist of the American New Wave in the 1970s.
Hungarian-born Zsigmond aboriginal acquired acclaim for his accord with bohemian administrator Robert Altman on his films McCabe and Mrs Miller and The Long Goodbye.
He went on to plan with abounding of cinema's a lot of acclaimed film-makers and became one of Hollywood's a lot of admired cinematographers, acknowledgment to his contributions on films such as Blow Out, Deliverance, The River and Images.
The a lot of contempo of his four Oscar nominations came in 2007 for The Black Dahlia. He aswell attempt a amount of episodes of the Fox ball The Mindy Project.
'Made a difference'
In 2003, Zsigmond ranked a allotment of the 10 a lot of affecting cinematographers in blur history in a analysis conducted by the International Cinematographers Guild.
Guild admiral Steven Poster said in a statement: "Vilmos' ability was not alone in his images, but in his faculty of assignment to honest storytelling. Alive up abutting with him, I aswell abstruse about backbone and an obligation to the adventure from the master.
"His adventurous ancestry accouterment footage from the Hungarian anarchy will consistently be an important allotment of his bequest and to approaching ancestors of cinematographers and blur students. He fabricated a difference."
American Psycho biographer and biographer Bret Easton Ellis paid accolade on Twitter adage Zsigmond was "one of the greatest cinematographers in cine history and authentic the attending of 70s film".
Easy Rider amateur Peter Fonda aswell tweeted: "Such a baby man and abundant friend."
Zsigmond was one of the a lot of in-demand cinematographers in Hollywood, alive with admiral such as Michael Cimino, Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Brian De Palma and George Miller.
Spielberg was decidedly afflicted with Zsigmond's plan and chose him for his admission affection The Sugarland Express, which afresh aggressive the administrator to appoint him afresh for his all-around hit Abutting Encounters of the Third Kind.
Zsigmond's Oscar choice for the alarming Vietnam War blur The Deer Hunter came in 1979 and the cinematographer advised the blur one of his finest achievements.
During the 1980s, the film-maker formed on abate movies and accustomed addition Oscar choice for Mark Rydell's The River in 1984.
Zsigmond aswell formed on a alternation of Woody Allen films in the 2000s, including Melinda and Melinda, Cassandra's Dream and You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger.
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