One of Hollywood’s undisputed masters of light, British cinematographer Roger Deakins earned his 14th Academy Award nomination this year for his typically dazzling work on “Blade Runner 2049.” Yet Deakins, 68, has never actually taken home an Oscar statuette. What attracted me to it was the story — it was a brilliant script — and then, of course, the casting. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)Casey Affleck and Brad Pitt in "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford." For me, “Jesse James” was a tone poem, similar to [the 1997 Tibet-set epic] “Kundun,” which I shot for Marty Scorsese — this melancholy poem. But his elegant, kinetic cinematography on the film would earn him his ninth Oscar nomination.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 22, 2018 12:56 UTC