Roger Deakins

Actor Profile
Roger Deakins

Roger Deakins was born on May 24, 1949 and is currently 74 years old.

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.

Movie Credits

Roger Deakins has appeared in 9 movies.

These include Cinematographer Style, In Search of 'Kundun' with Martin Scorsese, Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light, The Coen Brothers, Who Needs Sleep?, Allied Forces: Making 1917, The Rules of Film Noir, A Cinematic Life: The Art and Influence of Conrad Hall and The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird.

TV Credits

Roger Deakins has appeared in 3 TV Series.

These include Cursed Films, Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter and The Oscars.

Production Credits

Roger Deakins has 87 production credits.

Camera

Credited for Director of Photography in 70 shows - The Midnight Special, Empty Hand, Cruel Passion, Before Hindsight, Steppin' Out, Buford and the Galloping Ghost, Blue Suede Shoes, Box On, Wolcott, Van Morrison in Ireland, Another Time, Another Place, The Cinema of Stephen Dwoskin, The House, Return to Waterloo, Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Innocent, Shadey, Star Wars: Droids, Defence of the Realm, Sid and Nancy, Personal Services, White Mischief, The Kitchen Toto, Stormy Monday, Pascali's Island, Mountains of the Moon, The Long Walk Home, Homicide, Passion Fish, The Secret Garden, The Hudsucker Proxy, The Shawshank Redemption, Fargo, Courage Under Fire, Kundun, The Big Lebowski, The Siege, The Hurricane, Anywhere but Here, Miami Guns, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Queer Duck, Dinner with Friends, The Man Who Wasn't There, A Beautiful Mind, Levity, Intolerable Cruelty, House of Sand and Fog, The Ladykillers, The Village, No Country for Old Men, In the Valley of Elah, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Doubt, The Reader, Revolutionary Road, A Serious Man, The Company Men, True Grit, Rango, In Time, Skyfall, Prisoners, Unbroken, Sicario, Hail, Caesar!, Blade Runner 2049, The Goldfinch, 1917 and Empire of Light.
Credited for Camera Operator in 11 shows - Around the World with Ridgway, Towers of Babel, Of Muppets & Men, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Personal Services, No Country for Old Men, True Grit, Skyfall, Prisoners, Unbroken and 1917.
Credited for "A" Camera Operator in 2 shows - The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and Sicario.

Crew

Credited for Thanks in 1 show - Esther's Choice.
Credited for Cinematography in 3 shows - Chimurenga - The War in Zimbabwe, Alan Bush: A Life and How to Train Your Dragon.