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Breaking Baz: Oscar-Winner Sir Roger Deakins Says, “The Best Cinematography Hasn’t Been Nominated” This Year; Thinks Oscars Are “Snobby” About Cinematographers Of Popular Movies

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Roger Deakins, legendary cinematographer and knight of the British realm, cut to the chase: In his view several of the best examples of cinematography are missing from this year’s Oscars list. “The best cinematography hasn’t been nominated,” he tells me at the British consul general’s  Oscars reception.

Which film I ask? “It’s The Batman.That’s the best work in my view,” he says as he heaped acclaim on Greig Fraser’s “extraordinary” visual flair on the Warner Bros movie directed by Matt Reeves.

The picture should have been a contender in that category Deakins insists. “The reason it wasn’t is pure and simple: snobbery.

There’s this unfair tendency to avoid the Marvel universe and the other popular universes,” he says. Claudio Miranda the director of photography of  Paramount’s Top Gun: Maverick “is another one that was shut out,” Deakins notes. “It comes down to the work.

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