Gellért Hotel In Budapest Names Suite After Hungarian-Born Cinematographer
- 29 Jun 2015 9:00 AM
Budapest’s Hotel Gellért has named a suite after American-Hungarian cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond, daily Magyar Hírlap said. During the spa hotel’s 97-year history, this was the first time that the person whose name was given to a suite could personally attend the ceremony, the paper said. Suite number 304 has been named after Zsigmond on the occasion that the Academy Awards-winning cinematographer, who has been a regular guest at Gellért, celebrated his 85th birthday.
Hungarian-born cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond emigrated to the United States following the brutal Russian repression of the 1956 Hungarian uprising. He gained prominence during the 1970s after being hired by Robert Altman as cinematographer for McCabe & Mrs. Miller. Subsequent major films he shot include Altman’s The Long Goodbye, John Boorman’s Deliverance and Steven Spielberg’s The Sugarland Express and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the latter of which won him the Academy Award for Best Cinematography.
Other suites in Budapest’s Hotel Gellért are named after Otto Habsburg, Richard Nixon, Yehudi Menuhin, Andrew-Lloyd Webber and Maximilian Schell.
Source: hungarytoday.hu
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