Roger Deakins (born 1949), CBE, ASC, BSC, is one of today's most honored cinematographers, renowned for his vast and varied body of work. He has been nominated for an Oscar 15 times and won the award twice for the films Blade Runner 2049 and 1917. He has been given 5 BAFTA awards and been nominated 10 times. Some of his other Oscar nominations are for: Denis Villeneuve's Prisoners and Sicaro; The Coen Brothers' Fargo; Martin Scorsese's Kundun; The Reader; Sam Mendes' Skyfall; and Angelina Jolie's Unbroken, just to name a few. He has also been recognized by his British peers with 11 British Society of Cinematographers (BSC) nominations and 7 wins. His myriad professional honors also two Independent Spirit Awards, numerous Critic's awards and the National Board of Review's Career Achievement Award. In the 2021 New Year Honours he was knighted as a Knight Bachelor.
His command of light and eye for composition is as evident in his snapshots as it is in his cinematography.--Chris Lindahl Indiewire Quintessentially poignant in grainy shades of greys, Deakins' photography evokes a simultaneous sensibility of dreamy surrealism and hardened human nature.--Sunny Sunday Provokr He has a real knack for situating people or other objects (like the crosses in that image) within space. It's meant as a compliment to both Deakins the photographer and Deakins the cinematographer to say that so many of these images could be mistaken for film stills.--Mark Feeney Boston Globe It may be the purest distillation of Deakins's vision--stark, plaintive, and reverent of land and light--we ever get.--Taylor Dafoe Artnet