Michael Cimino, the Academy-award winning director of The Deer Hunter, has died at the age of 77 in Los Angeles.
Cimino received broad critical acclaim for the 1978 Vietnam War epic The Deer Hunter, which was nominated for nine Oscars and won five. He then followed it up with Heaven’s Gate, one of the most famous flops in film history.
The Los Angeles County Coroner confirmed Cimino’s death, but said the cause is not yet known.
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