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Roger Deakins
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Biography
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.
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Blade Runner 2049
Director of Photography
Prisoners
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The Big Lebowski
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The Shawshank Redemption
Director of Photography
The Hudsucker Proxy
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O Brother, Where Art Thou?
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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
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Sid and Nancy
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Chains
KinoChain journeys
Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.
The Epic Journey: An Odyssey Narrative Chain
Homer's Odyssey is the foundational blueprint for the homebound journey, tracking a weary warrior's attempt to return to his family. This six-film narrative cha...
6 films
Love in the Ruins
From the Sex Pistols' collapse to the quiet ache of post-punk, a chain of films where rebellion and romance burn together, and the fallout is everything.
8 films
The Cracks in the Picket Fence: Suburban Critique Across Generations
From the manicured lawns of 1999 to the glowing screens of today, this chain traces how cinema has dissected the suburban dream, revealing the isolation, confor...
8 films
The Show Must Go On
From Freddie Mercury's operatic excess to the raw defiance of punk, this chain traces how cinema captures the transformative power of self-expression.
8 films
When the Cartoon Fights Back: Slapstick Meets Liability
What happens when simulated harm, comic violence, or staged ordeals crash into real-world consequences? This collection explores the unsettling borderland where...
8 films
The Rivalry Within: How Feuds Shape the Soul
From duelling magicians to warring chefs, explore how rivalry reveals our deepest fears and desires. A cinematic journey through competition, obsession, and the...
8 films
The Perfect Needledrop: Ten Moments That Own the Screen
From sudden silences to euphoric choruses, these are the film moments where a song doesn't just score the scene, it becomes the scene.
10 films
The Weight of the Cape: Inheriting a Legacy You Never Asked For
Before the multiverse had a use for her, Kara Zor-El's first outing wasn't framed as destiny, it was framed as a mistake to fix. She loses the Omegahedron, the...
8 films
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Cinematography
1917
2019
Blade Runner 2049
2017
Hail, Caesar!
2016
Sicario
2015
Prisoners
2013
Skyfall
2012
In Time
2011
Rango
2011
True Grit
2010
Revolutionary Road
2008
Doubt
2008
The Reader
2008
No Country for Old Men
2007
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
2007
The Village
2004
House of Sand and Fog
2003
Intolerable Cruelty
2003
A Beautiful Mind
2001
The Man Who Wasn't There
2001
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2000
The Hurricane
1999
The Siege
1998
The Big Lebowski
1998
Courage Under Fire
1996
Fargo
1996
The Shawshank Redemption
1994
The Hudsucker Proxy
1994
The Secret Garden
1993
Barton Fink
1991
The Long Walk Home
1990
Air America
1990
Sid and Nancy
1986
Nineteen Eighty-Four
1984