The Deer Hunter won five Oscars in 1979: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Christopher Walken), Best Director (Cimino), Best Film Editing (Peter Zinner), and Best Sound (Richard Portman, William McCaughey, Aaron Rochin, and Darin Knight). After the failure of the film Heaven’s Gate in 1981, Cimino was shunned from Hollywood. Martin Scorsese once said, “Heaven’s Gate undercut all of us. I knew at the time it was the end of something, that something had died.”