Roger
Deakins, ASC, BSC
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
 This
is Roger Deakin's fourth Oscar nomination. The others were for The
Shawshank Redemption (1994), Fargo (1996) and Kundun
(1997). Each of those films also earned Outstanding Achievement Award
nominations from his peers in the American Society of Cinematographers
(ASC). He took top honors in the ASC competition for The Shawshank
Redemption.
Deakins is a native of Great Britain. He studied art and filmmaking
and considered a career in photojournalism before venturing into documentaries.
He earned his first feature film credit in 1982 for Another Time,
Another Place and subsequently attracted attention with his innovative
cinematography on Mountains of the Moon and Pascali's Island.
O Brother, Where Art Thou? is his fifth credit with the writer/director/producer
team of Joel and Ethan Coen. They also collaborated on Barton Fink,
The Hudsucker Proxy, The Big Lebowski and Fargo. His other
notable credits include Courage Under Fire, Dead Man Walking, Rob
Roy, Sid and Nancy, The Seige, The Hurricane, and Anywhere But
Here.
"Every film defines its own palette of colors and textures,"
says Deakins. " The result is almost like watching a play, although
there are moments that are like musical interludes verging on fantasy.
Those moments are almost an operatic or circus experience-like a Fellini
film in many ways."
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