Roger Deakins Biography

A frequent collaborator of offbeat visionary auteurs the Coen brothers cinematographer Roger Deakins' work on such features as The Shawshank Redemption (1994) Fargo (1996) Kundun (1997) and O Brother Where Art Thou? (2000) -- all Oscar-nominated for Best Cinematography -- has earned him a reputation as one of the premier cinematic visionaries of his generation.
Born in Devon England Deakins initially studied graphic design a career path which eventually led him to realize his love for still photography. Following his education at the National Film School Deakins was commissioned to create a photographic documentary on his hometown an assignment that found him focusing on documentary filmmaking for the next seven years. Deakins subsequently stepped behind the camera for such television documentaries as Around the World with Ridgeway Zimbabwe and Eritrea-- Behind Enemy Lines and in 1983 National Film School student Michael Radford offered him work on the fiction feature Another Time Another Place. The mid-'80s found Deakins virtually abandoning documentary film-making for work on such strikingly visual efforts as 1984 (1984) and Sid and Nancy (1986); and following his work on the 1988 film The Moon Woman he worked primarily in the United States.

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