Roger Deakins
Known for: Camera
Born: May 24, 1949
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
91 movies · 4 TV shows, newest first
6.6
Empire of Light
2022
NR
Esther's Choice
2020
7.2
Cursed Films
2020
6.5
Allied Forces: Making 1917
2020
8.0
1917
2019
7.1
The Goldfinch
2019
7.6
Blade Runner 2049
2017
5.9
Hail, Caesar!
2016
7.4
Sicario
2015
6.2
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
7.4
Unbroken
2014
8.1
Prisoners
2013
7.3
Skyfall
2012
7.0
In Time
2011
6.9
Rango
2011
7.3
True Grit
2010
6.5
The Company Men
2010
5.5
A Cinematic Life: The Art and Influence of Conrad Hall
2010
6.7
A Serious Man
2009
6.1
The Rules of Film Noir
2009
7.0
Revolutionary Road
2008
7.2
Doubt
2008
7.5
The Reader
2008
8.0
No Country for Old Men
2007
7.1
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
2007
6.8
In the Valley of Elah
2007
7.8
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
2006
7.1
Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light
2006
6.8
Cinematographer Style
2006
NR
"Jarhead" Diaries
2006
6.8
Who Needs Sleep?
2006
6.7
Jarhead
2005
6.5
The Village
2004
6.1
The Ladykillers
2004
7.1
House of Sand and Fog
2003
6.0
Intolerable Cruelty
2003
6.1
Levity
2003NR
Making "The Man Who Wasn't There"
2002
7.9
A Beautiful Mind
2001
7.5
The Man Who Wasn't There
2001
5.8
Dinner with Friends
2001NR
Painting with Pixels
2001
7.8
The Coen Brothers
2000
7.3
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2000
6.1
Anywhere but Here
1999
7.4
The Hurricane
1999
5.2
Smiling Fish & Goat On Fire
1999
6.3
The Siege
1998
7.3
In Search of 'Kundun' with Martin Scorsese
1998
7.8
The Big Lebowski
1998
6.8
Kundun
1997
6.6
Courage Under Fire
1996
7.8
Fargo
1996
7.3
Dead Man Walking
1995
8.7
The Shawshank Redemption
1994
7.1
The Hudsucker Proxy
1994
7.4
The Secret Garden
1993
7.0
Passion Fish
1992
6.3
Thunderheart
1992
7.5
Barton Fink
1991
6.3
Homicide
1991
7.6
The Long Walk Home
1990
5.8
Air America
1990
6.5
Mountains of the Moon
1990
6.4
Pascali's Island
1988
5.7
Stormy Monday
1988
6.7
The Kitchen Toto
1988
6.1
White Mischief
1987
6.0
Personal Services
1987
6.7
Sid and Nancy
1986
6.4
Defence of the Realm
1986
4.4
Shadey
1985
6.7
The Innocent
1985
6.8
Nineteen Eighty-Four
1984
6.8
Return to Waterloo
1984
5.7
The House
1984NR
The Cinema of Stephen Dwoskin
1984
4.6
Another Time, Another Place
19839.0
Alan Bush: A Life
1983
6.6
Of Muppets & Men
19817.0
Towers of Babel
198110.0
Van Morrison in Ireland
1981
6.0
Wolcott
19816.5
Box On
19806.5
Blue Suede Shoes
1980
7.0
Steppin' Out
1979
NR
Champions
1979NR
Around the World with Ridgway
1978NR
Chimurenga - The War in Zimbabwe
1978NR
British Hustle
19787.0
Before Hindsight
1977
4.2
Cruel Passion
1977
9.0
Welcome to Britain
1976
9.0
Empty Hand
1976
7.0
The Oscars
1953