Roger Antony Deakins is an English cinematographer (DP) and he was born in May 24, 1949 (age 63) in Torquay (Devon), England. He had his schooling in the National Film and Television School, Bath School of Art and Design. As he graduated from his school he found jobs as a cinematographer doing short documentaries around the world. His first feature film in America is Mountains of the Moon(1990). The developed trademarks that Roger Deakins has is: Silhouette lighting technique and the contrast of light on the actors, only uses spherical lenses, and frequently works with the Coen Brothers.
He has been the cinematographer on some of the most iconic and visually beautiful films of the past 20 years, such as The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont, 1994), Fargo (The Coen Brothers, 1996), No Country For Old Men (The Coen Brothers, 2007) True Grit (The Coen Brothers, 2010) and the new James Bond film, Skyfall (Sam Mendes, 2012). These are just a few off his incredible body of work.
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)
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