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Michael Cimino
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Director, Producer, Co-producer, Screenwriter, Screen Story Born: February 3, 1939 in New York, NY Biography:Writer/producer/director "Michael Cimino", the son of a Long Island-based music publisher, earned an MFA in Painting at Yale University, where he also became involved with student theatrical productions. Upon moving to New York City, he augmented his acting lessons with ballet classes, and began directing TV commercials and industrial films around 1963. In 1971, Cimino moved to Hollywood, where he wrote his first big-studio film, the "Douglas Trumbull"-directed "Silent Running". This led to his own feature-length directorial debut, "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot" (1974), a successful "Clint Eastwood" vehicle which Cimino patterned after one of his favorite '50s films, "Captain Lightfoot". Given virtual carte blanche for his next project, Cimino spent nearly three years on the preparation and production of "The Deer Hunter", a long, elegiac Vietnam-era epic which won five 1978 Oscars, including Best... Full Biography
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