Roger Deakins

Known for CameraBorn 1949-05-24 (age 77)Torquay, Devon, England, UK

Sir Roger Alexander Deakins ASC, BSC (born 24 May 1949) is an English cinematographer. He is the recipient of five BAFTA Awards for Best Cinematography and two Academy Awards for Best Cinematography from sixteen nominations. He has collaborated multiple times with directors such as the Coen brothers, Sam Mendes, and Denis Villeneuve. His best-known works include The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Fargo (1996), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), A Beautiful Mind (2001), Skyfall (2012), Sicario (2015), Blade Runner 2049 (2017), and 1917 (2019), the last two of which earned him Academy Awards. He is often regarded as one of the greatest and most influential cinematographers in mainstream cinema. An alumnus of the National Film and Television School, Deakins was named and serves as an Honorary Fellow of the school in recognition of his "outstanding contribution[s] to ... British film". He is a member of the British Society of Cinematographers and the American Society of Cinematographers, and in 2011 received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the latter organization. Deakins was bestowed a CBE by the Palace for his services to film in 2013 and was knighted as a Knight Bachelor in the 2021 New Year Honours. Description above from the Wikipedia article Roger Deakins, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Van Morrison in Ireland

Alan Bush: A Life

Empty Hand

Welcome to Britain

The Shawshank Redemption

Prisoners

1917

No Country for Old Men

A Beautiful Mind

The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird

The Big Lebowski

Fargo

Blade Runner 2049

The Coen Brothers

Sicario

Unbroken

The Reader

The Long Walk Home

The Man Who Wasn't There

The Hurricane

True Grit

Skyfall

Barton Fink

The Secret Garden

Cursed Films

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

The Goldfinch

In Search of 'Kundun' with Martin Scorsese

Doubt

Dead Man Walking

House of Sand and Fog

Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light

Of Muppets & Men

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

In Time

Revolutionary Road

The Hudsucker Proxy

Rango

Who Needs Sleep?

Passion Fish

In the Valley of Elah

Cinematographer Style

Empire of Light

Towers of Babel

A Serious Man

Steppin' Out

Kundun

Before Hindsight