Roger Alexander Deakins (born 24 May 1949) is an English cinematographer best known for his work on the films of the Coen brothers and Sam Mendes. Deakins is a member of both the American and British Society of Cinematographers. He received the 2011 American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Lifetime Achievement Award. Deakins has received ten nominations for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography without a single win.
Filmography[]
Directed by the Coen brothers:
Barton Fink (1991)
The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
Fargo (1996)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)
Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
The Ladykillers (2004)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
A Serious Man (2009)
True Grit (2010)
Directed by Edward Zwick:
Courage Under Fire (1996)
The Siege (1998)
Directed by Sam Mendes:
Jarhead (2005)
Revolutionary Road (2008)
Skyfall (2012)
Others:
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984), directed by Michael Radford
Return to Waterloo (1984), directed by Ray Davies
Defence of the Realm (1985), directed by David Drury
Sid and Nancy (1986), directed by Alex Cox
Personal Services (1987), directed by Terry Jones
Stormy Monday (1988), directed by Mike Figgis
Mountains of the Moon (1990), directed by Bob Rafelson
Air America (1990), directed by Roger Spottiswoode
The Long Walk Home (1990), directed by Richard Pearce
Homicide (1991), directed by David Mamet
Thunderheart (1992), directed by Michael Apted
Passion Fish (1992), directed by John Sayles
The Secret Garden (1993), directed by Agnieszka Holland
The Shawshank Redemption (1994), directed by Frank Darabont
Dead Man Walking (1995), directed by Tim Robbins
Kundun (1997), directed by Martin Scorsese
The Hurricane (1999), directed by Norman Jewison
Anywhere but Here (1999), directed by Wayne Wang
A Beautiful Mind (2001), directed by Ron Howard
Levity (2003) directed by Ed Solomon
House of Sand and Fog (2003) directed by Vadim Perelman
The Village (2004), directed by M. Night Shyamalan
In the Valley of Elah (2007), directed by Paul Haggis
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), directed by Andrew Dominik
WALL-E (2008, visual consultant), directed by Andrew Stanton
Doubt (2008), directed by John Patrick Shanley
The Reader (2008, with Chris Menges), directed by Stephen Daldry
How to Train Your Dragon (2010, visual consultant), directed by Chris Sanders & Dean DeBlois
The Company Men (2010), directed by John Wells
Rango (2011, visual consultant), directed by Gore Verbinski
