Roger Deakins

77, from Torquay, Devon, England, UK

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Biography

Roger Alexander Deakins, CBE, ASC, BSC (born May 24, 1949) is an English cinematographer best known for his work on the films of the Coen brothers, Sam Mendes, and Denis Villeneuve. Deakins is a member of both the American and British Society of Cinematographers. He received the 2011 American Society of Cinematographers (A.S.C.) Lifetime Achievement Award. Its president, Richard Crudo, called Deakins "the pre-eminent cinematographer of our time."

In recognition of outstanding contribution to the British film industry, Deakins is an honorary fellow of the National Film School in Buckinghamshire of which he is an alumnus. In 2013 he received a CBE at Buckingham Palace for "services to film". A recipient of four BAFTA Awards for Best Cinematography, Deakins has received fourteen nominations and one win for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography. His most well-known works include The Shawshank Redemption, Fargo, A Beautiful Mind, Skyfall, Sicario, Blade Runner 2049 and 1917, the last two for which he won an Oscar.

Timeline

2022Aged 73

  • Poster for Empire of Light

    Director of Photography

2020Aged 71

  • Poster for Allied Forces: Making 1917

    Self

  • Poster for Esther's Choice

    Thanks

2019Aged 70

  • Poster for The Goldfinch

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for 1917

    Camera Operator

2017Aged 68

  • Poster for Blade Runner 2049

    Director of Photography

2016Aged 67

  • Poster for Hail, Caesar!

    Director of Photography

2015Aged 66

  • Poster for Sicario

    "A" Camera Operator

2014Aged 65

  • Poster for Unbroken

    Camera Operator

2013Aged 64

  • Poster for Prisoners

    Camera Operator

2012Aged 63

  • Poster for Skyfall

    Camera Operator

2011Aged 62

  • Poster for Rango

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for In Time

    Director of Photography

2010Aged 61

  • Poster for A Cinematic Life: The Art and Influence of Conrad Hall

    Self

  • Poster for The Company Men

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for True Grit

    Camera Operator

2009Aged 60

  • Poster for The Rules of Film Noir

    Self

  • Poster for A Serious Man

    Camera Operator

2008Aged 59

  • Poster for The Reader

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Doubt

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Revolutionary Road

    Director of Photography

2007Aged 58

  • Poster for In the Valley of Elah

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

    "A" Camera Operator

  • Poster for No Country for Old Men

    Camera Operator

2006Aged 57

  • Poster for Who Needs Sleep?

    Self

  • Poster for

    Self

  • Poster for Cinematographer Style

    Self

  • Poster for Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light

    Self

  • Poster for The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird

    Self

2005Aged 56

  • Poster for Jarhead

    Director of Photography

2004Aged 55

  • Poster for The Ladykillers

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for The Village

    Director of Photography

2003Aged 54

  • Poster for Levity

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Intolerable Cruelty

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for House of Sand and Fog

    Director of Photography

2002Aged 53

2001Aged 52

2000Aged 51

  • Poster for The Coen Brothers

    Self

  • Poster for O Brother, Where Art Thou?

    Director of Photography

1999Aged 50

  • Poster for Smiling Fish & Goat On Fire

    Thanks

  • Poster for The Hurricane

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Anywhere but Here

    Director of Photography

1998Aged 49

  • Poster for In Search of 'Kundun' with Martin Scorsese

    Self

  • Poster for The Big Lebowski

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for The Siege

    Director of Photography

1997Aged 48

  • Poster for Kundun

    Director of Photography

1996Aged 47

  • Poster for Fargo

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Courage Under Fire

    Director of Photography

1995Aged 46

  • Poster for Dead Man Walking

    Director of Photography

1994Aged 45

  • Poster for The Hudsucker Proxy

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for The Shawshank Redemption

    Director of Photography

1993Aged 44

  • Poster for The Secret Garden

    Director of Photography

1992Aged 43

  • Poster for Thunderheart

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Passion Fish

    Director of Photography

1991Aged 42

  • Poster for Homicide

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Barton Fink

    Director of Photography

1990Aged 41

  • Poster for Mountains of the Moon

    Camera Operator

  • Poster for Air America

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for The Long Walk Home

    Director of Photography

1988Aged 39

  • Poster for The Kitchen Toto

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Stormy Monday

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Pascali's Island

    Director of Photography

1987Aged 38

  • Poster for Personal Services

    Camera Operator

  • Poster for White Mischief

    Director of Photography

1986Aged 37

  • Poster for Defence of the Realm

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Sid and Nancy

    Director of Photography

1985Aged 36

  • Poster for The Innocent

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Shadey

    Director of Photography

1984Aged 35

1983Aged 34

1981Aged 32

1980Aged 31

1979Aged 30

  • Poster for Champions

    Cinematography

  • Poster for Steppin' Out

    Director of Photography

1978Aged 29

1977Aged 28

1976Aged 27

  • Poster for Empty Hand

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Welcome to Britain

    Director of Photography

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