CiminoThe director Michael Cimino (19392016) 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 Heavens Gate, the most notorious bomb of all time. Originally budgeted at $11 million, Ciminos sprawling western went off the rails in Montana. The picture grew longer and longer, and the budget ballooned to over $40 million. When