
About
Roger Deakins
Overview
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.
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Known for
Acting |
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2020 | Allied Forces: Making 1917 | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
2010 | A Cinematic Life: The Art and Influence of Conrad Hall | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
2009 | The Rules of Film Noir | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
2006 | The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
2006 | Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
2006 | Cinematographer Style | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
2006 | Who Needs Sleep? | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
2002 | Making " The Man Who Wasn't There" | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
2000 | The Coen Brothers | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
1998 | In Search of 'Kundun' with Martin Scorsese | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
Camera |
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2022 | Empire of Light | Camera | Director of Photography | 62 Fair |
2019 | 1917 | Camera | Director of Photography | 79 Good |
2019 | 1917 | Camera | Camera Operator | 79 Good |
2019 | The Goldfinch | Camera | Director of Photography | 66 Fair |
2017 | Blade Runner 2049 | Camera | Director of Photography | 75 Good |
2016 | Hail, Caesar! | Camera | Director of Photography | 59 Average |
2015 | Sicario | Camera | Director of Photography | 73 Good |
2015 | Sicario | Camera | "A" Camera Operator | 73 Good |
2014 | Unbroken | Camera | Camera Operator | 72 Good |
2014 | Unbroken | Camera | Director of Photography | 72 Good |
2013 | Prisoners | Camera | Camera Operator | 80 Very good |
2013 | Prisoners | Camera | Director of Photography | 80 Very good |
2012 | Skyfall | Camera | Director of Photography | 72 Good |
2012 | Skyfall | Camera | Camera Operator | 72 Good |
2011 | In Time | Camera | Director of Photography | 69 Fair |
2011 | Rango | Camera | Director of Photography | 68 Fair |
2010 | True Grit | Camera | Camera Operator | 71 Good |
2010 | True Grit | Camera | Director of Photography | 71 Good |
2010 | The Company Men | Camera | Director of Photography | 62 Fair |
2009 | A Serious Man | Camera | Camera Operator | 65 Fair |
2009 | A Serious Man | Camera | Director of Photography | 65 Fair |
2008 | Revolutionary Road | Camera | Director of Photography | 68 Fair |
2008 | Doubt | Camera | Director of Photography | 69 Fair |
2008 | The Reader | Camera | Director of Photography | 72 Good |
2007 | The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | Camera | "A" Camera Operator | 68 Fair |
2007 | The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | Camera | Director of Photography | 68 Fair |
2007 | In the Valley of Elah | Camera | Director of Photography | 64 Fair |
2007 | No Country for Old Men | Camera | Camera Operator | 78 Good |
2007 | No Country for Old Men | Camera | Director of Photography | 78 Good |
2005 | Jarhead | Camera | Director of Photography | 65 Fair |
2004 | The Village | Camera | Director of Photography | 64 Fair |
2004 | The Ladykillers | Camera | Director of Photography | 60 Fair |
2003 | House of Sand and Fog | Camera | Director of Photography | 66 Fair |
2003 | Intolerable Cruelty | Camera | Director of Photography | 59 Average |
2003 | Levity | Camera | Director of Photography | 59 Average |
2001 | A Beautiful Mind | Camera | Director of Photography | 78 Good |
2001 | The Man Who Wasn't There | Camera | Director of Photography | 71 Good |
2001 | Dinner with Friends | Camera | Director of Photography | 58 Average |
2000 | O Brother, Where Art Thou? | Camera | Director of Photography | 71 Good |
1999 | Anywhere but Here | Camera | Director of Photography | 59 Average |
1999 | The Hurricane | Camera | Director of Photography | 70 Good |
1998 | The Siege | Camera | Director of Photography | 61 Fair |
1998 | The Big Lebowski | Camera | Director of Photography | 77 Good |
1997 | Kundun | Camera | Director of Photography | 63 Fair |
1996 | Courage Under Fire | Camera | Director of Photography | 62 Fair |
1996 | Fargo | Camera | Director of Photography | 77 Good |
1995 | Dead Man Walking | Camera | Director of Photography | 69 Fair |
1994 | The Shawshank Redemption | Camera | Director of Photography | 86 Very good |
1994 | The Hudsucker Proxy | Camera | Director of Photography | 66 Fair |
1993 | The Secret Garden | Camera | Director of Photography | 68 Fair |
1992 | Passion Fish | Camera | Director of Photography | 59 Average |
1992 | Thunderheart | Camera | Director of Photography | 60 Fair |
1991 | Barton Fink | Camera | Director of Photography | 71 Good |
1991 | Homicide | Camera | Director of Photography | 59 Average |
1990 | The Long Walk Home | Camera | Director of Photography | 62 Fair |
1990 | Air America | Camera | Director of Photography | 58 Average |
1990 | Mountains of the Moon | Camera | Camera Operator | 59 Average |
1990 | Mountains of the Moon | Camera | Director of Photography | 59 Average |
1988 | Pascali's Island | Camera | Director of Photography | 58 Average |
1988 | Stormy Monday | Camera | Director of Photography | 58 Average |
1988 | The Kitchen Toto | Camera | Director of Photography | 58 Average |
1987 | White Mischief | Camera | Director of Photography | 58 Average |
1987 | Personal Services | Camera | Director of Photography | 58 Average |
1987 | Personal Services | Camera | Camera Operator | 58 Average |
1986 | Sid and Nancy | Camera | Director of Photography | 63 Fair |
1986 | Defence of the Realm | Camera | Director of Photography | 59 Average |
1985 | Shadey | Camera | Director of Photography | 58 Average |
1985 | The Innocent | Camera | Director of Photography | 59 Average |
1984 | Nineteen Eighty-Four | Camera | Director of Photography | 65 Fair |
1984 | Nineteen Eighty-Four | Camera | Camera Operator | 65 Fair |
1984 | Return to Waterloo | Camera | Director of Photography | 59 Average |
1984 | The House | Camera | Director of Photography | N/A N/A |
1984 | The Cinema of Stephen Dwoskin | Camera | Director of Photography | N/A N/A |
1983 | Another Time, Another Place | Camera | Director of Photography | 58 Average |
1983 | Alan Bush: A Life | Camera | Director of Photography | N/A N/A |
1981 | Of Muppets & Men | Camera | Camera Operator | 59 Average |
1981 | Towers of Babel | Camera | Camera Operator | 58 Average |
1981 | Van Morrison in Ireland | Camera | Director of Photography | N/A N/A |
1981 | Wolcott | Camera | Director of Photography | N/A N/A |
1981 | Of Muppets & Men: The Making of the Muppet Show | Camera | Director of Photography | 61 Fair |
1980 | Box On | Camera | Director of Photography | 59 Average |
1980 | Blue Suede Shoes | Camera | Director of Photography | 59 Average |
1979 | Steppin' Out | Camera | Director of Photography | N/A N/A |
1978 | Around the World with Ridgway | Camera | Camera Operator | N/A N/A |
1978 | Chimurenga - The War in Zimbabwe | Camera | Director of Photography | N/A N/A |
1977 | Before Hindsight | Camera | Director of Photography | N/A N/A |
1977 | Cruel Passion | Camera | Director of Photography | 58 Average |
1976 | Welcome to Britain | Camera | Director of Photography | N/A N/A |
1976 | Empty Hand | Camera | Director of Photography | N/A N/A |
Crew |
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2020 | Esther's Choice | Crew | Thanks | 59 Average |
1999 | Smiling Fish & Goat On Fire | Crew | Thanks | 58 Average |