Michael Cimino, who won Oscars as director and a producer of “The Deer Hunter” before “Heaven’s Gate” destroyed his career and sped up the demise of 60-year-old United Artists, has died ...

Michael Cimino’s epic Western, “Heaven’s Gate,” his first film since the Oscar-winning “The Deer Hunter,” was shown to the New York press on November 19, 1980.

Michael Cimino became a legend when he released 'The Deer Hunter,' then burned his career to the ground with 'Heaven's Gate,' and we look back at the fascinating filmmaker as the news of his death ...

Michael Cimino, a writer-director whose career saw the highs of winning two Oscars for his 1978 picture “The Deer Hunter” and the lows of 1980’s infamous “Heaven’s Gate,” has died in ...

Michael Cimino’s “Heaven’s Gate”–an epic western about the Johnson County wars in 1892 Wyoming, starring Kris Kristofferson and Christopher Walken as a sheriff and gunfighter battling ...

Cimino was so wounded by the initial rejection of Heaven’s Gate that he didn’t watch the film again until the combined wooing of Criterion and his longtime producer, Joann Carelli, convinced ...

Michael Cimino, the Academy Award-winning filmmaker who earned a reputation as one of Hollywood’s boldest directors with the haunting 1978 Vietnam War drama “The Deer Hunter,” and then all ...

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 ...

Michael Cimino, who won Oscars as director and a producer of “The Deer Hunter” before “Heaven’s Gate” destroyed his career and sped up the demise of 60-year-old United Artists, has died ...

Cimino died Saturday, ... 'Deer Hunter' director Michael Cimino, whose career tanked after 'Heaven's Gate,' dead at 77. Updated: Jul. 03, 2016, 6:09 a.m.