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Sir Roger Alexander Deakins CBE (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.
Oct 2, 2015 · A twelve-time Academy Award nominee, longtime partner of the Coen brothers, and indispensable collaborator of, among others, David Mamet, Sam Mendes, Martin Scorsese, and of late Denis Villeneuve, he is incapable of capturing a lacklustre image.
- Color Is A Distraction
- The B&W Photographs
- Still Cameras and Movie (Video) Cameras
- The Beginnings in England
Although Deakins has published Byways, a collection of his 50 years of street photography, he has no secret sauce on the subject. “I can’t say anything is important about street photography,” says the photographer. “Whatever is important to one person may be of no consequence to another. That is what makes the photographic image interesting. We all...
Deakins remembers taking his first photograph in 1969 in Bournemouth, England. A man and a woman are eating lunch on a bench outside a ladies’ room with a sign that says, “Keep it to Yourself.” “I used to hitchhike to various locations and spend the day with my camera,” recounts the cinematographer of the twenty-third Bond film, Skyfall.“Sometimes,...
Deakins’ first camera was a Praktica film SLR. The digital camera he has used the most is the Leica M8. The movie/video camera he has relied on the most in the last five years is the Arri Alexa LF(sensor slightly larger than full frame). “An Alexa LF…I like the image it produces, and I like the way it fits me as an operator,” says the cinematograph...
Deakins never planned on becoming a cinematographer. His first passion was photography. He finished art school in Bath and then worked for a small arts center in North Devon. His job was to photograph local scenes. It was then that the National Film School opened. “After I discovered a love for a photographic image, it seemed natural to explore whe...
Roger Deakins is an English cinematographer best known for his work on the films of the Coen brothers, Sam Mendes, and Denis Villeneuve. He is a member of both the American and British Society of Cinematographers.
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May 22, 2024 · The British cinematographer is one of the greatest artists of light and shade in movie history. In our April 2020 issue we picked ten shots that show off different facets of his genius. Until not that long ago, it was easy to praise cinematographer Roger Deakins as the man who didn’t need Oscars.
Dec 24, 2019 · Ahead of the movie’s release, Rotten Tomatoes sat down with Deakins to break down how he tackled the challenge of 1917‘s “single shot,” as well as to walk us through some of the toughest...
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Jul 23, 2019 · The Oscar-winning cinematographer recalls the “silver-tint” process that helped him create a palette strikingly close to black and white.