Talk:Roger Deakins

Filmography
Having the films by some directors and not others it totally annoying!

Please just make them all chronological!

Just make one table with a sort feature: "by director"

If that is the way you want to view it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Convert#Sortable_table

143.120.100.106 (talk) 23:55, 4 January 2016 (UTC)

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Cinematography Consultant
I found out through the end credits of the film Rango that Roger Deakins served as a ‘cinematography consultant’. Should that be included in Deakins’ list of selected filmography? - Theironminer (talk) 00:46, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

Yesterday's edits
Came to look in on the article, where I'd contributed long in the past. Saw that a nickname of "Matt Campbell" had been added, and having never heard of this, did a bit of poking around, then removed it as likely vandalism (by a fan of the active, young film greensman by that name?). Then, was drawn to the awards section, which was empty except for a wikilink, which was nonstandard, and which, it seemed to me, did a disservice to the article and its subject. In rectifying that (moving content from lead and other parts of article to summarize his rewards and recognition), I discovered (a) that the BAFTA information is incomplete—see next Talk section—both in statement and in sourcing, and (b) that the lead description of his awards was both odd in chronology, and missing at least one source. The remainder of the edits yesterday were to: The first of these included naming of sections in standard fashion and/or moving them to the places they most often appear in bios (e.g., §Personal life, to near end of article). The third of these was the lead edit, and was the most important work that was done. It included: Please, be gentle—as a non-logging editor I am often peremptorily reverted, even for high quality edits—and feel free to edit and discuss anything I did here, in the spirit of this great cinematographer (and thoroughly decent bloke). Cheers. 12.205.207.2 (talk) 19:14, 27 February 2020 (UTC)
 * make the article more standard in structure (in anticipation of a GA review),
 * begin rectifying the BAFTA issue, and to
 * do a "proposed", first-pass lead edit.
 * moving career awards to the end of lead,
 * moving citations for awards into the main body (to make whole lead consistent in this regard),
 * noting two statements which were not fully supported by sources in the lead (BAFTA awards, and award as alumnus).

Facts needed in article
This article is en route to achieving GA status. Before trying that, here are a list of things needing to be done, and facts needing to be found (sourced). As you add to this, please date. When done, please add checkmark as done.
 * Source, with date, of Deakins admission to the British Society of Cinematographers. 2601:246:C700:19D:EDF4:ADF1:A260:BF0F (talk) 15:50, 28 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Source, with date, his having received five BAFTA Awards for Best Cinematography. 2601:246:C700:19D:EDF4:ADF1:A260:BF0F (talk) 16:07, 28 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Source, with date, his having received that BAFTA Award, for True Grit (2010). 2601:246:C700:19D:EDF4:ADF1:A260:BF0F (talk) 16:07, 28 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Source, with date, his having received that BAFTA Award, for 1917 (2019). 2601:246:C700:19D:EDF4:ADF1:A260:BF0F (talk) 16:07, 28 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Source, with date, his having received Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography, for Fargo (1996). 2601:246:C700:19D:EDF4:ADF1:A260:BF0F (talk) 16:07, 28 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Source, with date, his having received that Independent Spirit Award, for A Serious Man (2009). 2601:246:C700:19D:EDF4:ADF1:A260:BF0F (talk) 16:07, 28 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Source, with date, for lead and main body, his having made an honorary fellow of the National Film School (other facts, Buckinghamshire, he as alumnus, reason for recognition).2601:246:C700:19D:EDF4:ADF1:A260:BF0F (talk) 16:07, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

Personal life section
Why is this placed after the "Filmography" section? Filmographies and other tables are usually placed lower, just before lists of "Awards" and "References? In fact, am struggling to find any examples of where "Personal life" is pushed to the bottom, away from the other prose sections, like this. Thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 17:03, 28 February 2020 (UTC)
 * I will look back and correct this—it may not need to be so far down, but earlier, if I recall correctly, it was quite far up. Give me until tomorrow? 2601:246:C700:19D:EDF4:ADF1:A260:BF0F (talk) 23:02, 28 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Give me until 30 seconds ago. Thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 23:07, 28 February 2020 (UTC)