Profile | プロフィール
Born / 生年月日
May 24, 1949 | Torquay, Devon, England, UK
Age / 年齢
75 years old (as of 2025)
Occupation / 職業
Cinematographer, Director of Photography
撮影監督
Nationality / 国籍
British-American (イギリス・アメリカ)
Biography | 経歴
[English] Roger Deakins is the greatest living cinematographer—a master whose four-decade career is defined by a rare combination of technical perfection and visual philosophical depth. His work has reshaped the very craft of cinematography, creating icons of modern cinema. From the stark, haunting West Texas landscapes of No Country for Old Men to the breathtaking amber-haze of the future Los Angeles in Blade Runner 2049, Deakins creates visual worlds that are both immersive and intellectually profound. His work on 1917 stands as a monumental achievement, where his choreography of light and motion within a continuous-time narrative pushed the technical boundaries of large-scale filmmaking to their absolute limit. Through his long-standing collaborations with the Coen Brothers, Sam Mendes, and Denis Villeneuve, Deakins has established a standard of excellence that will be studied and revered for as long as cinema is recognized as an art form.
[日本語] ロジャー・ディーキンスは、現代において最も偉大な存命の撮影監督です。40年以上にわたる彼のキャリアは、技術的な完璧さと、視覚を通じた哲学的な深みの融合によって形作られてきました。彼の生み出す映像は、撮影技術そのものの在り方を再定義し続けています。『ノーカントリー』で描き出した荒涼としたテキサスの風景は、映画史における風景写真の最高峰であり、『ブレードランナー 2049』における琥珀色の霞（アンバー・ヘイズ）に包まれた未来のロサンゼルスは、SF映画史上最も独創的な視覚世界を構築しました。そして『1917 命をかけた伝令』では、途切れることのない時間の中で光と動きを完璧に振り付け、大規模な商業映画制作における技術的野心の限界を突破しました。コーエン兄弟、サム・メンデス、ドゥニ・ヴィルヌーヴといった巨匠たちとの長年の協力関係を通じて築き上げられたその功績は、映画が芸術であり続ける限り、永遠に研究され、語り継がれるべき「巨匠（マスター）」の記録そのものです。
Selected Filmography | 主な作品
Feature Films — Selected (主要撮影作品)
| Year | Title (English / Japanese) | Director | Awards/Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | Defense of the Realm | David Drury | Early British feature / Career building |
| 1987 | Personal Services | Terry Jones | Terry Jones (Monty Python) |
| 1989 | Pascali’s Island | James Dearden | |
| 1990 | Mountains of the Moon | Bob Rafelson | African exploration epic |
| 1991 | Barton Fink / バートン・フィンク | Coen Brothers | Coen collaboration begins / Cannes Palme d’Or (film) / Intense visual claustrophobia / Wallpaper peeling |
| 1994 | The Shawshank Redemption / ショーシャンクの空に | Frank Darabont | Oscar nom. Best Cinematography 🌟 (1st nomination) / Prison light / Hope vs. confinement / Most beloved film |
| 1994 | The Hudsucker Proxy | Coen Brothers | Period visual comedy / Angles and architecture |
| 1996 | Fargo / ファーゴ | Coen Brothers | Oscar nom. Best Cinematography 🌟 / Blinding white Minnesota snow / Blood contrast |
| 1997 | Kundun / クンドゥン | Martin Scorsese | Oscar nom. Best Cinematography 🌟 / Tibet / Spiritual light / Scorsese |
| 1997 | L.A. Confidential / L.A.コンフィデンシャル | Curtis Hanson | Oscar nom. Best Cinematography 🌟 / 1950s LA / Noir glamour / Curtis Hanson |
| 1998 | The Big Lebowski / ビッグ・リボウスキ | Coen Brothers | Idiosyncratic comedy visual language |
| 2000 | O Brother, Where Art Thou? / オー・ブラザー！ | Coen Brothers | Oscar nom. Best Cinematography 🌟 / First major digital color grading in Hollywood / Golden-brown sepia / Industry-changing |
| 2001 | The Man Who Wasn’t There / 未来を生きる君たちへ | Coen Brothers | Black-and-white / Period noir / Immaculate formal control |
| 2001 | A Beautiful Mind / ビューティフル・マインド | Ron Howard | Oscar Best Picture (film) / Ron Howard |
| 2003 | Intolerable Cruelty | Coen Brothers | |
| 2004 | The Village | M. Night Shyamalan | Autumn palette / Shyamalan |
| 2005 | Jarhead / ジャーヘッド | Sam Mendes | Mendes collaboration begins / Gulf War / Desert light |
| 2007 | No Country for Old Men / ノーカントリー | Coen Brothers | Oscar nom. Best Cinematography 🌟 / Oscar Best Picture (film) 🏆 / West Texas landscape / Greatest American landscape photography / Career landmark |
| 2007 | Jesse James / ジェシー・ジェームズの暗殺 | Andrew Dominik | Oscar nom. Best Cinematography 🌟 / 19th-century West / Natural light / Brad Pitt |
| 2008 | Burn After Reading | Coen Brothers | |
| 2008 | Revolutionary Road / レボリューショナリー・ロード | Sam Mendes | 1950s suburban Connecticut / Period suffocation |
| 2009 | A Serious Man | Coen Brothers | Suburban Minnesota / Deadpan visual philosophy |
| 2010 | True Grit / トゥルー・グリット | Coen Brothers | Oscar nom. Best Cinematography 🌟 / Western landscape / Period light |
| 2012 | Skyfall / スカイフォール | Sam Mendes | Oscar nom. Best Cinematography 🌟 / Shanghai neon sequence / Scottish Highlands finale / Most beautiful Bond film ever made |
| 2013 | Inside Llewyn Davis / インサイド・ルーウィン・デイヴィス | Coen Brothers | Cannes Grand Prix (film) 🏆 / 1960s Greenwich Village / Cold grey light |
| 2013 | Prisoners / プリズナーズ | Denis Villeneuve | Oscar nom. Best Cinematography 🌟 / Villeneuve collaboration begins / Pennsylvania grey / Rain / Moral darkness |
| 2015 | Sicario / ボーダーライン | Denis Villeneuve | Oscar nom. Best Cinematography 🌟 / US-Mexico border / Thermal imaging / Dust and heat / Tactical cinematography |
| 2015 | In the Heart of the Sea | Ron Howard | Whaling epic / Ocean |
| 2016 | Hail, Caesar! | Coen Brothers | Hollywood golden age visual parody |
| 2017 | Blade Runner 2049 / ブレードランナー 2049 | Denis Villeneuve | Oscar Best Cinematography 🏆 (1st win, after 13 nominations) / Most visually extraordinary sci-fi film ever made / Amber haze / Scale and desolation / Post-climate LA |
| 2018 | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs / バスター・スクラッグスのうた | Coen Brothers | Netflix / Western anthology / Natural light mastery |
| 2019 | 1917 | Sam Mendes | Oscar Best Cinematography 🏆 (2nd win) / BAFTA Best Cinematography 🏆 / Technical innovation for single-take format / WWI / Natural-light-adjacent / Continuous-time choreography / Career formal summit |
| 2021 | The Tragedy of Macbeth / マクベスの悲劇 | Joel Coen | Black-and-white / Expressionist / Denzel Washington / Frances McDormand |
| 2022 | Empire of Light / エンパイア・オブ・ライト | Sam Mendes | British seaside / 1980s / Final Mendes collaboration to date |
Awards & Recognition | 受賞歴
Academy Awards (アカデミー賞)
Winner: 2 🏆
- Best Cinematography – Blade Runner 2049 (2018) 🏆 — first win after 13 nominations; the most discussed outstanding career recognition in the recent history of the award
- Best Cinematography – 1917 (2020) 🏆 — second win for the single-take technical achievement
Nominated: 14 total — the most nominations in the history of the Best Cinematography category for a single cinematographer 🌟
- The Shawshank Redemption (1995) 🌟
- Fargo (1997) 🌟
- Kundun (1998) 🌟
- L.A. Confidential (1998) 🌟
- O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2001) 🌟
- The Man Who Wasn’t There (2002) 🌟
- No Country for Old Men (2008) 🌟
- The Reader (2009) 🌟
- True Grit (2011) 🌟
- Skyfall (2013) 🌟
- Prisoners (2014) 🌟
- Sicario (2016) 🌟
- Blade Runner 2049 (2018) 🏆
- 1917 (2020) 🏆
Academy Honorary Award (アカデミー名誉賞)
- Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award — 2024 Oscars ceremony 🏆
The highest honor available from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; recognition of a career whose sustained excellence and formal influence on the practice of cinematography is without parallel
BAFTA Awards (英国アカデミー賞)
Winner: Multiple 🏆
- Best Cinematography – 1917 (2020) 🏆
- Best Cinematography – Blade Runner 2049 (2018) 🏆
- Additional nominations and wins across career 🏆
American Society of Cinematographers (ASC)
- ASC Outstanding Achievement Award — multiple wins 🏆
- ASC Lifetime Achievement Award 🏆
British Society of Cinematographers (BSC)
- BSC Outstanding Achievement Award — multiple wins 🏆
Cannes Film Festival (カンヌ映画祭)
- Films photographed by Deakins have won the Palme d’Or (Barton Fink, 1991) and the Grand Prix (Inside Llewyn Davis, 2013)
Honours
- CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) — 2013 🏆
- Knight Bachelor — Sir Roger Deakins — 2021 🏆
Box Office — Films Photographed | 撮影作品の興行成績
| Film | Worldwide Box Office |
|---|---|
| Skyfall (2012) | $1.109 billion |
| Spectre (2015, additional photography) | $880.7 million |
| Blade Runner 2049 (2017) | $259.2 million |
| 1917 (2019) | $384.9 million |
| No Country for Old Men (2007) | $171.6 million |
| True Grit (2010) | $252.3 million |
| The Shawshank Redemption (1994) | $58.3M theatrical (massive subsequent audience through home video and television) |
