FILM DIRECTOR

Michael Cimino

1939 - 2016

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Michael Antonio Cimino ( chim-EE-noh Italian pronunciation: [anˈtɔːnjo tʃiˈmiːno]; February 3, 1939 – July 2, 2016) was an American film director, screenwriter, producer and author. Notorious for his obsessive attention to detail and determination for perfection, Cimino achieved fame with The Deer Hunter (1978), which won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. With a background in painting and architecture, Cimino began his career as a commercial director in New York before moving to Los Angeles in the early 1970s to take up screenwriting. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michael Cimino has received more than 2,731,391 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Michael Cimino is the 141st most popular film director (down from 122nd in 2019), the 954th most popular biography from United States (down from 826th in 2019) and the 38th most popular American Film Director.

Michael Cimino is most famous for directing and producing the 1978 film "The Deer Hunter."

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 62.96

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 44

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.78

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Michael Ciminos by language

Over the past year Michael Cimino has had the most page views in the with 400,870 views, followed by Italian (104,417), and French (71,778). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malagasy (113.01%), Swedish (109.41%), and Simple English (103.59%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Michael Cimino ranks 141 out of 2,041. Before him are Erich von Stroheim, Lewis Milestone, Jacques Demy, Volker Schlöndorff, Moustapha Akkad, and D. W. Griffith. After him are Henri-Georges Clouzot, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Max Reinhardt, Alice Guy-Blaché, and Jonathan Demme.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Michael Cimino ranks 44. Before him are Paul Hogan, Jean-Marie Lehn, Mark Margolis, Ray Manzarek, Wes Craven, and Volker Schlöndorff. After him are Kenzō Takada, Junko Tabei, Henry Mintzberg, Phil Spector, Harry Kroto, and Claude François. Among people deceased in 2016, Michael Cimino ranks 48. Before him are James Cronin, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Ray Tomlinson, Esma Redžepova, René Angélil, and George Martin. After him are Michel Galabru, Ahmed Zewail, Michèle Morgan, George Gaynes, Junko Tabei, and Viktor Korchnoi.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Michael Cimino ranks 954 out of 20,380. Before him are Bugsy Siegel (1906), Henry Way Kendall (1926), Keith Haring (1958), D. W. Griffith (1875), Jonathan Banks (1947), and Jane Wyman (1917). After him are Kim Kardashian (1980), Condoleezza Rice (1954), Myrtle Corbin (1868), John Fante (1909), Ambrose Bierce (1842), and Steve Reich (1936).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, Michael Cimino ranks 38. Before him are Howard Hawks (1896), Victor Fleming (1889), Wes Craven (1939), William Hanna (1910), George A. Romero (1940), and D. W. Griffith (1875). After him are Jonathan Demme (1944), Frances Marion (1888), Ed Wood (1924), Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909), Joel Schumacher (1939), and Gordon Parks (1912).

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Filmography

The Deer Hunter
Director
A group of working-class friends decide to enlist in the Army during the Vietnam War and finds it to be hellish chaos -- not the noble venture they imagined. Before they left, Steven married his pregnant girlfriend -- and Michael and Nick were in love with the same woman. But all three are different men upon their return.
Dec 8o 19788.003 / 10
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
Director
With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organise a daring new heist.
May 23o 19746.714 / 10
Year of the Dragon
Director
In New York, racist Capt. Stanley White becomes obsessed with destroying a Chinese-American drug ring run by Joey Tai, an up-and-coming young gangster as ambitious as he is ruthless. While pursuing an unauthorized investigation, White grows increasingly willing to violate police protocol, resorting to progressively violent measures -- even as his concerned wife, Connie, and his superiors beg him to consider the consequences of his actions.
Aug 16o 19856.9 / 10