Roger Deakins

Personal Info

Know For

Camera

Gender

Male

Birthday

1949-05-24 (76 years old)

Place of Birth

Torquay, Devon, England, UK

Roger Deakins

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 i...

Production

1998

The Big Lebowski

as Director of Photography

2000

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

as Director of Photography

2005

Jarhead

as Director of Photography

1996

Fargo

as Director of Photography

1994

The Shawshank Redemption

as Director of Photography

1991

Barton Fink

as Director of Photography

2001

A Beautiful Mind

as Director of Photography

1995

Dead Man Walking

as Director of Photography

1999

The Hurricane

as Director of Photography

2008

Revolutionary Road

as Director of Photography

2001

The Man Who Wasn't There

as Director of Photography

2003

Levity

as Director of Photography

2004

The Ladykillers

as Director of Photography

1999

Anywhere but Here

as Director of Photography

1993

The Secret Garden

as Director of Photography

2003

House of Sand and Fog

as Director of Photography

2008

The Reader

as Director of Photography

2004

The Village

as Director of Photography

1990

Air America

as Director of Photography

2007

No Country for Old Men

as Director of Photography

2007

In the Valley of Elah

as Director of Photography

2001

Dinner with Friends

as Director of Photography

1994

The Hudsucker Proxy

as Director of Photography

2003

Intolerable Cruelty

as Director of Photography

1992

Thunderheart

as Director of Photography

1984

Nineteen Eighty-Four

as Director of Photography

2009

A Serious Man

as Director of Photography

1998

The Siege

as Director of Photography

2008

Doubt

as Director of Photography

1987

White Mischief

as Director of Photography

1981

Towers of Babel

as Camera Operator

2010

True Grit

as Director of Photography

1983

Another Time, Another Place

as Director of Photography

1990

Mountains of the Moon

as Camera Operator

2013

Prisoners

as Director of Photography

2022

Empire of Light

as Director of Photography

1986

Sid and Nancy

as Director of Photography

2014

Unbroken

as Director of Photography

2015

Sicario

as "A" Camera Operator

1984

The House

as Director of Photography

1991

Homicide

as Director of Photography

1990

Mountains of the Moon

as Director of Photography

1986

Defence of the Realm

as Director of Photography

2015

Sicario

as Director of Photography

2017

Blade Runner 2049

as Director of Photography

1990

The Long Walk Home

as Director of Photography

2016

Hail, Caesar!

as Director of Photography

2010

The Company Men

as Director of Photography

1997

Kundun

as Director of Photography

2011

In Time

as Director of Photography

2012

Skyfall

as Director of Photography

2013

Prisoners

as Camera Operator

1976

Empty Hand

as Director of Photography

1977

Before Hindsight

as Director of Photography

2009

A Serious Man

as Camera Operator

1984

Nineteen Eighty-Four

as Camera Operator

1981

Of Muppets & Men

as Camera Operator

1996

Courage Under Fire

as Director of Photography

1988

Pascali's Island

as Director of Photography

1985

Shadey

as Director of Photography

1977

Cruel Passion

as Director of Photography

1988

Stormy Monday

as Director of Photography

1992

Passion Fish

as Director of Photography

1987

Personal Services

as Director of Photography

1988

The Kitchen Toto

as Director of Photography

1985

The Innocent

as Director of Photography

1984

Return to Waterloo

as Director of Photography

2014

Unbroken

as Camera Operator

2010

True Grit

as Camera Operator

1980

Blue Suede Shoes

as Director of Photography

2019

The Goldfinch

as Director of Photography

1981

Van Morrison in Ireland

as Director of Photography

1984

The Cinema of Stephen Dwoskin

as Director of Photography

2012

Skyfall

as Camera Operator

2019

1917

as Director of Photography

2007

No Country for Old Men

as Camera Operator

1987

Personal Services

as Camera Operator

1978

2011

Rango

as Director of Photography

2019

1917

as Camera Operator

1980

Box On

as Director of Photography

1979

Steppin' Out

as Director of Photography

2020

1983

Alan Bush: A Life

as Director of Photography

1978

Chimurenga - The War in Zimbabwe

as Director of Photography

1976

Welcome to Britain

as Director of Photography

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