Roger Alexander Deakins, CBE, ASC, BSC is an English cinematographer best known for his work on the films of the Coen brothers, Sam Mendes, and Denis Villeneuve. Deakins is a member of both the American and British Society of Cinematographers. He received the 2011 American Society of Cinematographers (A.S.C.) Lifetime Achievement Award. Deakins has received thirteen nominations for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography.
Deakins’ first feature film in America as cinematographer was Mountains of the Moon (1990). He began his collaboration with the Coen brothers in 1991 on the film Barton Fink (the director Barry Sonnenfeld worked as cinematographer on the Coen brothers’ previous three films Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, and Miller’s Crossing). Since then, Deakins has been the Coens’ main cinematic collaborator and has been their principal cinematographer. Read more at Wikipedia.
