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Sir Roger Alexander Deakins ASC, BSC (born 24 May 1949) is an English cinematographer. He is the recipient of five BAFTA Awards for Best Cinematography and two Academy Awards for Best Cinematography from sixteen nominations. He has collaborated multiple times with directors such as the Coen brothers, Sam Mendes, and Denis Villeneuve. His best-known works include The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Fargo (1996), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), A Beautiful Mind (2001), Skyfall (2012), Sicario (2015), Blade Runner 2049 (2017), and 1917 (2019), the last two of which earned him Academy Awards. He is often regarded as one of the greatest and most influential cinematographers in mainstream cinema. An alumnus of the National Film and Television School, Deakins was named and serves as an Honorary Fellow of the school in recognition of his "outstanding contribution[s] to ... British film". He is a member of the British Society of Cinematographers and the American Society of Cinematographers, and in 2011 received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the latter organization. Deakins was bestowed a CBE by the Palace for his services to film in 2013 and was knighted as a Knight Bachelor in the 2021 New Year Honours. Description above from the Wikipedia article Roger Deakins, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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City of Darkness is a 2022 American science fiction action film written, co-produced, and directed by Denis Villeneuve. It stars Anne Hathaway, Tom Hiddleston, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Sharlto Copley, Alexa Davalos, Morgan Freeman, Amy Adams, Alexandra Shipp, and Michael Caine. In the film, a former scientist-turned-assassin named Dakota Houston sets out to give the world back its freedom, which was taken by the ruthless and corrupt world leader Armando Kraone. City of Darkness premiered in Los Angeles on February 29th, 2022, and was released on March 17th; it was a major box-office success, grossing $618 million worldwide. The film was met with widespread acclaim from critics, who praised its ambition, direction, musical score, action sequences, the dark tone, dramatic characters, visual effects, emotion, and Hathaway, Hiddleston, Abdul-Mateen, Copley, Davalos and Caine's performances, as well as for its groundbreaking storytelling. It is widely considered one of the greatest science fiction films of all time, as well as one of Villeneuve's finest works, and is considered to be his masterpiece. In 2027, City of Darkness was selected by the United States National Film Board as one of the top ten best films of 2022.
