Oscar-winning director Michael Cimino, whose film The Deer Hunter became one of the great triumphs of Hollywood's 1970s heyday and whose disastrous Heaven's Gate helped bring that era to a close, has died. Los Angeles County acting coroner's lieutenant B Kim said Cimino, 77, died on Saturday. He said had been living in Beverly Hills at the time of his death. Cimino had his directorial breakthrough with his second film, The Deer Hunter, in 1978, the story of the Vietnam War's effect on a small steel-working town in Pennsylvania. The film won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director for Cimino. But his emerging career then took a U-turn with 1980's Heaven's Gate, a Western starring Kris Kristofferson that was a critical and financial disaster.
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