The masterpieceCimino's masterpiece was 1978's The Deer Hunter, the story of the Vietnam War's effect on a small steel-working town in Pennsylvania. Director Michael Cimino, left, talks with actor Robert De Niro, centre wearing beret, during a break in filming of The Deer Hunter on location in Bangkok in 1977. Michael Cimino, the Oscar-winning director whose film The Deer Hunter became one of the great triumphs of Hollywood's 1970s heyday, and whose disastrous Heaven's Gate helped bring that era to a close, has died. Cimino worked only sporadically in the years that followed Heaven's Gate, and with no success. The film won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director for Cimino.

Source: CBC News July 03, 2016 04:46 UTC