The mid-'80s found Deakins virtually abandoning documentary film-making for work on such strikingly visual efforts as 1984 (1984) and Sid and Nancy (1986) and following his work on the 1988 film The Moon Woman he worked primarily in the United States. Sir Roger Alexander Deakins CBE is an English cinematographer, best known for his collaborations with directors the Coen brothers, Sam Mendes, and Denis Villeneuve. Twelve times nominated for an Academy Award, British cinematographer Roger Deakins was the man behind the lens on films such as The Shawshank Redemption. Cinematographer Roger DeakinsCBE, ASC, BSC and recently knightedand his collaborator and wife, James Ellis Deakins, recently visited New York to talk about his book of still photographs. Deakins subsequently stepped behind the camera for such television documentaries as Around the World with Ridgeway Zimbabwe and Eritrea- Behind Enemy Lines and in 1983 National Film School student Michael Radford offered him work on the fiction feature Another Time Another Place. Roger Deakins 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 has received five awards from eleven nominations.
Deakins is a member of both the American and British Society of Cinematographers. He is best known for his work on the movies of the Coen brothers, Sam Mendes, and Denis Villeneuve. Following his education at the National Film School Deakins was commissioned to create a photographic documentary on his hometown an assignment that found him focusing on documentary filmmaking for the next seven years. The BAFTA Award is an annual award show presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.The awards were founded in 1947 as The British Film Academy, by David Lean, Alexander Korda, Carol Reed, Charles Laughton, Roger Manvell and others. Roger Alexander Deakins CBE, BSC, ASC (born ) is an British cinematographer. A frequent collaborator of offbeat visionary auteurs the Coen brothers cinematographer Roger Deakins' work on such features as The Shawshank Redemption (1994) Fargo (1996) Kundun (1997) and O Brother Where Art Thou? (2000) - all Oscar-nominated for Best Cinematography - has earned him a reputation as one of the premier cinematic visionaries of his generation.Born in Devon England Deakins initially studied graphic design a career path which eventually led him to realize his love for still photography. Roger Deakins at the American Society of Cinematographers 25th Annual Outstanding Achievement Awards at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood and Highland in Hollywood, California on February 13, 2011.
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