Roger Deakins Articles

Josh Brolin in Joel Coen and Ethan Coen's No Country for Old Men NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN Review Part I: The Pros The Cons: I was unable to either relate to or care about any of the "good" characters. Josh Brolin's Llewelyn Moss is supposed to be just an "ordinary guy" who acts the way ordinary guys would act under similar circumstances. Well, perhaps [...]

Melissa Leo in David O. Russell's The Fighter So far there have been a couple of surprises of sorts, what with Alice in Wonderland winning for Best Art Direction (instead of either The King's Speech or Inception) and Inception's Wally Pfister, not True Grit's veteran Roger Deakins taking home the Best Cinematography Oscar. Melissa Leo won the Best Supporting Actress Award, and seemed in shock [...]

Jeff Bridges, Hailee Steinfeld, True Grit Best Cinematography: Roger Deakins, True Grit Oscar Predictions 2011 Although Inception's Wally Pfister won the 2011 American Society of Cinematographers Award, it's important to note that the ASC is hardly a good judge of an eventual winner at the Oscars. Since 1986, only 9 ASC Award winners ended up taking home the Academy Award for Best Cinematography. That's about [...]

Hailee Steinfeld in Joel Coen and Ethan Coen's True Grit TRUE GRIT Review Part I But above all, True Grit rests on the shoulders of Hailee Steinfeld. Plucked from obscurity, Steinfeld embodies the heart and soul of the film, for the Coens smartly decided to stick closer to the novel and focus their adaptation on Mattie Ross, not Rooster Cogburn. The danger was that if [...]