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ROGER DEAKINS (Director of Photography) most recently worked on Joel and Ethan Coen's remake of Ladykillers starring Tom Hanks. It was his eighth consecutive teaming with the Coen brothers, following Intolerable Cruelty; The Man Who Wasn't There; O Brother, Where Art Thou?; The Big Lebowski; Fargo; The Hudsucker Proxy and Barton Fink. His work on O Brother, Where Art Thou? earned him BAFTA, American Society of Film Critics and Academy Award nominations.  For Fargo, Deakins received American Society of Cinematographers and Academy Award nominations, as well as several Best Cinematographer citations from various film critics' organizations.  Barton Fink earned him the Best Cinematography Award from the National Society of Film Critics. Deakins' work on The Shawshank Redemption brought him the American Society of Cinematographers Award as well as his first Academy Award nomination.  For his work on Kundun, he received Best Cinematography citations from the New York Film Critics Circle, the Boston Society of Film Critics and the National Society of Film Critics, as well as Academy Award and American Society of Cinematographers Award nominations. Deakins began working as a still photographer before enrolling in Britain's National Film School in 1972. His association with fellow student Michael Radford led to director of photography work on three features directed by Radford: Another Time, Another Place; 1984; and White Mischief. His other director of photography credits include Alex Cox's Sid and Nancy, Michael Apted's Thunderheart, John Sayles' Passion Fish, Agnieszka Holland's The Secret Garden, Tim Robbins' Dead Man Walking, and Edward Zwick's Courage Under Fire and The Siege.  More recently, he did the cinematography on Ron Howard's Oscar-winning A Beautiful Mind, Vadim Perelman's House of Sand and Fog and M. Night Shyamalan's The Village. Deakins has also shot such feature documentaries as When the World Changed and Eritrea: Behind the Lines, as well as the music documentaries Blue Suede Shoes and Van Morrison in Ireland. He has shot music videos for Eric Clapton, Marvin Gaye, Herbie Hancock and Madness, among others.

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