![]() ![]() I think it won an Academy Award for the Best Documentary. It was about what would happen if a bomb was dropped in the center of London. You’ve got to think that this was 1965 at the height of the Cold War. I saw some amazing movies, which I remember clearly like Peter Watkins’ The War Game. I grew up in a seaside town in Devon-there wasn’t much to do. I liked looking at books of photography when I was a kid. “I was quite late into movies-I must have been 24 or 25 before I touched a film camera. ![]() “I was probably 20 years old when I first started shooting still photography and I didn’t pick up a film camera until I went to the National Film School,” he said. ![]() And as a shutterbug and a cinematographer, he wound up becoming a late bloomer. As Deakins recalled, there wasn’t much to do growing up aside from heading off to art college to avoid a 9-to-5 grind and becoming a member of a local film society. It’s been quite a heady road for a young lad who was born in the sleepy English seaside town of Devon. Roger Deakins’ “Carnival Lights, Hatherleigh, 1971” Roger DeakinsĪnd while he’s been collaborating with his spouse Isabella James Purefoy Ellis the past three-plus decades ever since the couple met on a movie set back in 1992, the cinematic duo launched a podcast called Team Deakins back in 2020 and also released Byways, a collection of photographic stills that have also been exhibited in a number of art spaces and galleries across the United States and in Europe. He’s been a go-to for the Coen brothers a dozen times dating back to his first project with them (1991’s Barton Fink) and has also worked with a number of other renowned directors including Sam Mendes ( Jarhead, 1917), Martin Scorsese ( Kundun), Norman Jewison ( The Hurricane), John Sayles ( Passionfish) and Ron Howard ( A Beautiful Mind). The storied cinematographer has been nominated for 16 Academy Awards, winning twice for Blade Runner 2049 (2017) and 1917 (2019). No one can ever accuse Roger Deakins of having lived a dull life. ![]()
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