Roger Deakins
Camera · Acting · Crew
Born May 24, 1949, 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.
Filmography
- 2022Empire of Light — Director of Photography
- 2020Esther's Choice — Thanks
- 20191917 — Director of Photography, Camera Operator
- 2019The Goldfinch — Director of Photography
- 2017Blade Runner 2049 — Director of Photography
- 2016Hail, Caesar! — Director of Photography
- 2015Sicario — "A" Camera Operator, Director of Photography
- 2014Unbroken — Director of Photography, Camera Operator
- 2013Prisoners — Director of Photography, Camera Operator
- 2012Skyfall — Director of Photography, Camera Operator
- 2011In Time — Director of Photography
- 2011Rango — Director of Photography
- 2010The Company Men — Director of Photography
- 2010True Grit — Director of Photography, Camera Operator
- 2009A Serious Man — Director of Photography, Camera Operator
- 2008Doubt — Director of Photography
- 2008Revolutionary Road — Director of Photography
- 2008The Reader — Director of Photography
- 2007In the Valley of Elah — Director of Photography
- 2007No Country for Old Men — Director of Photography, Camera Operator
- 2007The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford — Director of Photography, "A" Camera Operator
- 2005Jarhead — Director of Photography
- 2004The Ladykillers — Director of Photography
- 2004The Village — Director of Photography
- 2003House of Sand and Fog — Director of Photography
- 2003Intolerable Cruelty — Director of Photography
- 2003Levity — Director of Photography
- 2001A Beautiful Mind — Director of Photography
- 2001Dinner with Friends — Director of Photography
- 2001The Man Who Wasn't There — Director of Photography
- 2000O Brother, Where Art Thou? — Director of Photography
- 1999Anywhere but Here — Director of Photography
- 1999Smiling Fish & Goat On Fire — Thanks
- 1999The Hurricane — Director of Photography
- 1998The Big Lebowski — Director of Photography
- 1998The Siege — Director of Photography
- 1997Kundun — Director of Photography
- 1996Courage Under Fire — Director of Photography
- 1996Fargo — Director of Photography
- 1995Dead Man Walking — Director of Photography
- 1994The Hudsucker Proxy — Director of Photography
- 1994The Shawshank Redemption — Director of Photography
- 1993The Secret Garden — Director of Photography
- 1992Passion Fish — Director of Photography
- 1992Thunderheart — Director of Photography
- 1991Barton Fink — Director of Photography
- 1991Homicide — Director of Photography
- 1990Air America — Director of Photography
- 1990Mountains of the Moon — Camera Operator, Director of Photography
- 1990The Long Walk Home — Director of Photography
- 1988Pascali's Island — Director of Photography
- 1988Stormy Monday — Director of Photography
- 1988The Kitchen Toto — Director of Photography
- 1987Personal Services — Director of Photography, Camera Operator
- 1987White Mischief — Director of Photography
- 1986Defence of the Realm — Director of Photography
- 1986Sid and Nancy — Director of Photography
- 1985Shadey — Director of Photography
- 1985The Innocent — Director of Photography
- 1984Nineteen Eighty-Four — Director of Photography, Camera Operator
- 1984Return to Waterloo — Director of Photography
- 1984The Cinema of Stephen Dwoskin — Director of Photography
- 1984The House — Director of Photography
- 1983Alan Bush: A Life — Director of Photography
- 1983Another Time, Another Place — Director of Photography
- 1981Of Muppets & Men — Camera Operator
- 1981Towers of Babel — Camera Operator
- 1981Van Morrison in Ireland — Director of Photography
- Wolcott — Director of Photography
- 1980Blue Suede Shoes — Director of Photography
- 1980Box On — Director of Photography
- 1979Champions — Cinematography
- 1979Steppin' Out — Director of Photography
- 1978Around the World with Ridgway — Camera Operator
- 1978British Hustle — Camera Operator, Director of Photography
- 1978Chimurenga - The War in Zimbabwe — Director of Photography
- 1977Before Hindsight — Director of Photography
- 1977Cruel Passion — Director of Photography
- 1976Empty Hand — Director of Photography
- 1976Welcome to Britain — Director of Photography
Appearances as themselves (15)
- 2020Allied Forces: Making 1917 — Self
- Cursed Films — Self
- Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter — Self
- 2010A Cinematic Life: The Art and Influence of Conrad Hall — Self
- 2009The Rules of Film Noir — Self
- 2006"Jarhead" Diaries — Self
- 2006Cinematographer Style — Self
- 2006Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light — Self
- 2006The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird — Self
- 2006Who Needs Sleep? — Self
- 2002Making "The Man Who Wasn't There" — Self
- 2001Painting with Pixels — Self
- 2000The Coen Brothers — Self
- 1998In Search of 'Kundun' with Martin Scorsese — Self
- The Oscars — Self