Laszlo Kovacs
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László Kovács ASC (14 May 1933 – 22 July 2007, a Hungarian cinematographer who was influential in the development of American New Wave films in the 1970s, working with producers such as Peter Bogdanovich, Richard Rush, Dennis Hopper, Norman Jewison, and Martin Scorsese.
Kovács, the recipient of several prizes, including three Lifetime Achievement Awards, is best known for his works on Easy Rider (1969) and Five Easy Pieces (1970).
He was an active member of the American Society of Cinematographers and served on the board of directors of the association.
Early life
Kovács, born in Cece, Hungary, to Julianna and Imre Kovács, studied cinema at the Academy of Drama and Film in Budapest between 1952 and 1956. On black and white 35mm film film, Kovács undercoverly filmed the day-to-day development of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, a fellow student and lifelong friend, using an Arriflex camera loaned from their school. They smuggled the 30,000 feet (9,100 m) of film into Austria to have it developed in November, and they made it to the United States in March 1957 to sell the video. However, by that time, the revolution was no longer considered newsworthy, and it wasn't until many years later, in 1961, that it was broadcast on the CBS television network in a Walter Cronkite documentary.
In 1963, Kovács decided to settle in the United States, becoming a naturalized citizen. He worked in several manual factory jobs, including making maple syrup and printing microfilm sheets in an insurance company, before he produced several "no-budget" and "low-budget" films with Vilmos Zsigmond, including The Incredibly Strange Creatures That Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies. At the time, Kovács would be listed as Leslie Kovacs and Zsigmond as William Zsigmond.
Personal life and death
Kovács died of pancreatic cancer at his Beverly Hills, California, at the age of 74. Kovács had been married for 23 years to his partner, Audrey, at the time of his death. Julianna and Nadia, his niece, Mia, and his nephew were two children.
Film career
The breakthrough for Kovács came with the 1969 film Easy Rider, which was starring and directed by Dennis Hopper. Kovács was reluctant to start filming on the first film in a series of B movie biker films, including Hells Angels on Wheels. Hopper convinced Kovács that this film would be different, and Kovács agreed to work as the film's director of photography. At the 1970 Laurel Awards, he came in second place for Best Cinematographer Golden Laurel. He appeared on Hopper's film The Last Movie in 1970. Kovács produced Five Easy Pieces in the same year, earning him the third place Golden Laurel Award for Best Cinematographer.
More than 70 motion pictures were shot by Kovács. Among these six films was directed Peter Bogdanovich: What's Up, Doc?, Paper Moon, At Long Last Love, Nickelodeon, and Mask. Bogdanovich met with Kovács more times than any other cinematographer.
For Pete's Sake, Shampoo, New York, New York, Ghostbusters, Ruby Cairo, Say Anything..., My Best Friend's Wedding, and Miss Congeniality are among Kovács' most popular films. In addition, he shot Close Encounters of the Third Kind and The Last Waltz.
Camera operators were told to switch off their cameras at certain intervals while on The Last Waltz to save battery life. Director Martin Scorsese was compelled to change his mind abruptly and ordered all cameras to be turned on during one of these instances. Since the cameras took several minutes to fully warm up, most of them were caught on only the last few bars of Waters' success. Although Kovács did not hear or disregarded orders to ban his camera, he was the only cameraman on set to film Waters' entire performance.
Kovács' last film appears in Torn from the Flag, a 2006 film film about the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, which includes an original video shot by he and Zsigmond as film students before moving to the United States.