Roger Deakins, ASC, BSC
No Country for Old Men

Roger Deakins, ASC, BSC was born and raised in a small seaside town called Torquay in Devon, England. His mother had been an actress before the war and was an amateur artist. Deakins spent his school days painting and enrolled in art school as a graphics arts major. At art school he discovered still photography. He subsequently completed his education at the National Film School. After graduation, Deakins focused on documentaries for some seven years, on subjects ranging from the wars in Rhodesia and Eritrea to a trip of nine-months duration in one of the entrants on a round the world yacht race.

With Oscar nominations in 2008 for both No Country for Old Men and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Deakins was the first cinematographer since 1971 to be nominated for two movies in the same year.

He was previously nominated for The Man Who Wasn't There, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Kundun, Fargo, and The Shawshank Redemption.

He earned his first feature credit shooting the low budget Another Time, Another Place for Channel 4 television. His later credits in the UK would include 1984, Sid and Nancy, Stormy Monday, White Mischief and Mountains of the Moon. Deakins began his collaboration with Joel and Ethan Coen in 1991 with Barton Fink.

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