The first biography of the acclaimed and derided filmmaker Michael Cimino?and a reevaluation of the infamous film that destroyed his career?now in paperback!The director Michael Cimino (1939-2016) is famous for two films: the intense, powerful, and enduring Vietnam movie The Deer Hunter, which won Best Picture at the Academy Awards in 1979 and also won Cimino Best Director, and Heaven's Gate, the most notorious bomb of all time.