Cinematographer Lazlo Kovacs dies at 74
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Laszlo Kovacs, one of  Hollywood&#39;s most influential and respected directors of  photography, died Saturday night in his sleep. He was 74.
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Oscar-winning filmmaker Sven Nykvist, who was legendary director Ingmar Bergman's cinematographer of choice, died Wednesday after a long illness, his son said. He was 83.
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Gonzalo Gavira, a Mexican wizard with sound effects who worked on films like "The Exorcist," "The Towering Inferno" and "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly," has died aged 79, a colleague said on Tuesday.
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Martin Scorsese, Dennis  Hopper and Haskell Wexler are among the film industry veterans  slated to be interviewed for inclusion in a documentary about  two of the community&#39;s most influential directors of  photography, Laszlo Kovacs and Vilmos Zsigmond.
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Director Robert Altman, who  introduced an innovative ensemble style of filmmaking in such  works as "MASH," "Gosford Park" and "Nashville," has died at  age 81, his production company said on Tuesday.
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With the death last week of Elmer Bernstein, following so soon after the deaths of Jerry Goldsmith and David Raksin, two of the fellow Hollywood composers he most admired, an era ends.
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One of the great film-makers of sub-Saharan Africa, Sembene Ousmane, dies after a long illness aged 84.
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Noted film producer and acclaimed filmmaker Mani Ratnam's brother G Srinivasan died in a tragic accident while he was trekking in a tourist resort in Manali along with his wife and elder daughter on Sunday.
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A special effects technician involved in the filming of the new Batman movie has died in a car accident, the film's producers said on Tuesday.
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An Iraqi cameraman working for the Associated Press was shot and killed in Baghdad on Thursday, the U.S. news organization said.
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Senior Russian Central Bank official Andrei Kozlov dies after being shot by gunmen in Moscow.
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Hollywood lost one of its music legends last night with the death of Elmer Bernstein, 82, an Oscar-winning composer who wrote the scores for more than 200 films over five decades, including such classics as The Magnificent ...
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Jan Nowak-Jezioranski, a wartime courier for the Polish anti-Nazi resistance and the director of Radio Free Europe's Polish service during the Cold War, has died, Polish officials said Friday. He was 91.
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Photographer Joe Rosenthal, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his immortal image of six World War II servicemen raising an American flag over battle-scarred Iwo Jima, died Sunday. He was 94.
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DEAUVILLE, France  - Belgian filmmaker   Remy Belvaux, whose sole feature "Man Bites Dog" became a cult   hit, has died, his family said Wednesday. He was 38.
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Polish actor Leon Niemczyk, who starred in Roman Polanski's "Knife in the Water" and hundreds of other films, has died at the age of 82.
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Spain&#39;s Jesus de Polanco, who transformed a schoolbook publisher he founded in 1958 into Prisa, the largest media company in the Spanish-speaking world, died Saturday at the age of 77, his firm said.