Cast & creator
Roger Deakins
Best known for Blade Runner 2049, The Shawshank Redemption, Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
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.
Also known as: Sir Roger Deakins, Roger A. Deakins, Roger Alexander Deakins, Sir Roger Alexander Deakins
105
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1953–2022 · acting roles
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Filmography (109)
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Blade Runner 2049
Director of Photography
2017
The Shawshank Redemption
Director of Photography
1994
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Self
2015
The Oscars
Self
1953
No Country for Old Men
Director of Photography
2007No Country for Old Men
Camera Operator
2007
1917
Director of Photography
20191917
Camera Operator
2019
In Time
Director of Photography
2011
Prisoners
Director of Photography
2013Prisoners
Camera Operator
2013
The Big Lebowski
Director of Photography
1998
Sicario
"A" Camera Operator
2015Sicario
Director of Photography
2015
A Beautiful Mind
Director of Photography
2001
Skyfall
Director of Photography
2012Skyfall
Camera Operator
2012
Fargo
Director of Photography
1996
The Village
Director of Photography
2004
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Director of Photography
2000
Rango
Director of Photography
2011
Revolutionary Road
Director of Photography
2008
The Reader
Director of Photography
2008
True Grit
Director of Photography
2010True Grit
Camera Operator
2010
Hail, Caesar!
Director of Photography
2016
Unbroken
Director of Photography
2014Unbroken
Camera Operator
2014
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Director of Photography
2007The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
"A" Camera Operator
2007
The Goldfinch
Director of Photography
2019
The Hurricane
Director of Photography
1999
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Director of Photography
1984Nineteen Eighty-Four
Camera Operator
1984
Cursed Films
Self
2020
The Hudsucker Proxy
Director of Photography
1994
Dead Man Walking
Director of Photography
1995
In the Valley of Elah
Director of Photography
2007
Empire of Light
Director of Photography
2022
The Siege
Director of Photography
1998
Courage Under Fire
Director of Photography
1996
Jarhead
Director of Photography
2005
The Ladykillers
Director of Photography
2004
A Serious Man
Director of Photography
2009A Serious Man
Camera Operator
2009
Intolerable Cruelty
Director of Photography
2003
The Man Who Wasn't There
Director of Photography
2001
The Secret Garden
Director of Photography
1993
Thunderheart
Director of Photography
1992
Air America
Director of Photography
1990
Doubt
Director of Photography
2008
House of Sand and Fog
Director of Photography
2003
Barton Fink
Director of Photography
1991
Anywhere but Here
Director of Photography
1999
The Company Men
Director of Photography
2010
Sid and Nancy
Director of Photography
1986
The Long Walk Home
Director of Photography
1990
White Mischief
Director of Photography
1987
Wolcott
Director of Photography
1981
Kundun
Director of Photography
1997Blue Suede Shoes
Director of Photography
1980
Mountains of the Moon
Camera Operator
1990Mountains of the Moon
Director of Photography
1990
Passion Fish
Director of Photography
1992
Pascali's Island
Director of Photography
1988
"Jarhead" Diaries
Self
2006
Dinner with Friends
Director of Photography
2001
Defence of the Realm
Director of Photography
1986
Levity
Director of Photography
2003
Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light
Self
2006
Homicide
Director of Photography
1991
Personal Services
Director of Photography
1987Personal Services
Camera Operator
1987
Stormy Monday
Director of Photography
1988
Cruel Passion
Director of Photography
1977
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
Self
2006
The Coen Brothers
Self
2000
The Innocent
Director of Photography
1985
Another Time, Another Place
Director of Photography
1983
Allied Forces: Making 1917
Self
2020
Blade Runner 2049: Behind the Scenes
2018
Smiling Fish & Goat On Fire
Thanks
1999Before Hindsight
Director of Photography
1977British Hustle
Camera Operator
1978British Hustle
Director of Photography
1978Making "The Man Who Wasn't There"
Self
2002
Esther's Choice
Thanks
2020
A Cinematic Life: The Art and Influence of Conrad Hall
Self
2010
The Rules of Film Noir
Self
2009
Of Muppets & Men
Camera Operator
1981
The House
Director of Photography
1984
Who Needs Sleep?
Self
2006Van Morrison in Ireland
Director of Photography
1981
The Kitchen Toto
Director of Photography
1988
Return to Waterloo
Director of Photography
1984
Empty Hand
Director of Photography
1976Towers of Babel
Camera Operator
1981Box On
Director of Photography
1980Around the World with Ridgway
Camera Operator
1978
Shadey
Director of Photography
1985Chimurenga - The War in Zimbabwe
Director of Photography
1978The Cinema of Stephen Dwoskin
Director of Photography
1984
Welcome to Britain
Director of Photography
1976
Cinematographer Style
Self
2006
Steppin' Out
Director of Photography
1979Alan Bush: A Life
Director of Photography
1983
In Search of 'Kundun' with Martin Scorsese
Self
1998
Champions
Cinematography
1979Painting with Pixels
Self
2001