By Seth Abramovitch Senior Writer It’s Clint’s best work as a director. By far ... I would not have had the chance to make Deer Hunter. I took an ad out in the trades and tried to explain ...

Michael Cimino, Oscar-winning director of “Deer Hunter” and “Heaven’s Gate,” has died at the age of 77. Cannes Film Festival director Thierry Fremaux revealed the news on Twitter ...

The film gets its name from a scene in which Robert De Niro's character kills a deer with a single shot while on a hunting trip with his friends.

Michael Cimino, the Academy-award winning director of The Deer Hunter, has died at the age of 77 in Los Angeles. The Los Angeles County Coroner confirmed Cimino's death, but said the cause is not ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — 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 ...