{"id":3156,"date":"2018-03-05T06:37:49","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T06:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2018\/03\/05\/roger-deakins-finally-wins-best-cinematography-oscar-after-14-nominations\/"},"modified":"2018-03-05T06:37:49","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T06:37:49","slug":"roger-deakins-finally-wins-best-cinematography-oscar-after-14-nominations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2018\/03\/05\/roger-deakins-finally-wins-best-cinematography-oscar-after-14-nominations\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Deakins Finally Wins Best Cinematography Oscar After 14 Nominations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Dave Quinn\/ People<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Roger Deakins finally has his Oscar!<\/p>\n<p>After 14 nominations in the category, the celebrated director of photography has finally won Oscar\u2019s Best Cinematography trophy.<\/p>\n<p>Deakins, 68, accepted the award on Sunday at\u00a0the 90th annual Academy Awards for his work on\u00a0Denis Villeneuve\u2019<em>s\u00a0<\/em><em>Blade Runner 2049.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He beat out fellow nominees Hoyte Van Hoytema (<em>Dunkirk<\/em>), Bruno Delbonnel (<em>Darkest Hour<\/em>), Dan Laustsen (<em>The Shape of Water<\/em>), and Rachel Morrison (<em>Mudbound<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really love my job,\u201d Deakins said in his speech. \u201cI\u2019ve been doing it a long time, as you can see. But one of the reasons I love it is the people I work with. Some of my crew on\u00a0<em>Blade Runner<\/em>\u00a0I\u2019ve been working with for 20 years. This is for every one of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Deakins began his career in documentaries before making his feature film debut with 1990\u2019s\u00a0<em>Mountains of the Moon.\u00a0<\/em>His first Oscar nomination came from 1994\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Shawshank Redemption<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>After collaborating with the\u00a0Coen brothers in 1991\u2019s\u00a0<em>Barton Fink,\u00a0<\/em>Deakins became the Coens\u2019 main cinematic collaborator and principal cinematographer. Five of his nominations have come from Coen brothers collaborations:\u00a0<em>Fargo<\/em>,\u00a0<em>O Brother, Where Art Thou?<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Man Who Wasn\u2019t There<\/em>,\u00a0<em>True Grit<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>No Country for Old Men<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Other nominations were for his work on\u00a0<em>Kundun<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Assassination\u00a0of Jesse James by the Coward Robert<\/em>\u00a0<em>Ford<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Reader<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Skyfall<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Unbroken<\/em>,\u00a0and two other Villeneuve films:\u00a0<em>Prisoners<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Sicario.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2940\" src=\"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/-\/media\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-08-at-1.22.42-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>All those losses never stopped Deakins from enjoying his job.\u00a0\u201cOh, you know, I\u2019m too old for all of that,\u201d he told\u00a0<em>Variety<\/em>\u00a0in\u00a0an interview about his bad luck with the Academy. \u201cWhat you do doesn\u2019t change. The fun is doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though\u00a0Deakins finally has his Oscar after 14-nominations,\u00a0legendary cinematographer George J. Folsey doesn\u2019t. Despite celebrated work in\u00a0<em>Executive Suite\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Meet Me in St. Louis<\/em>, the late lenser is the second-most\u00a0nominated person in the category to never win the gold, with 13 nominations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Quinn\/ People Roger Deakins finally has his Oscar! After 14 nominations in the category, the celebrated director of photography has finally won Oscar\u2019s Best Cinematography trophy. Deakins, 68, accepted the award on Sunday at\u00a0the 90th annual Academy Awards for his work on\u00a0Denis Villeneuve\u2019s\u00a0Blade Runner 2049.\u00a0 He beat out fellow nominees Hoyte Van Hoytema (Dunkirk), &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2018\/03\/05\/roger-deakins-finally-wins-best-cinematography-oscar-after-14-nominations\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Roger Deakins Finally Wins Best Cinematography Oscar After 14 Nominations - Thunderbird Entertainment<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2018\/03\/05\/roger-deakins-finally-wins-best-cinematography-oscar-after-14-nominations\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Roger Deakins Finally Wins Best Cinematography Oscar After 14 Nominations - Thunderbird Entertainment\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dave Quinn\/ People Roger Deakins finally has his Oscar! 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