Achievement in Cinematography

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THE READER

Chris Menges and Roger Deakins
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ACADEMY AWARDS HISTORY

This is the fourth Academy Award nomination for Chris Menges. He was previously nominated for:

  • MICHAEL COLLINS (1996) Nominee, Cinematography
  • THE MISSION (1986) Winner, Cinematography
  • THE KILLING FIELDS (1984) Winner, Cinematography

This is the eighth Academy Award nomination for Roger Deakins. He was previously nominated for:

  • THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD (2007) Nominee, Cinematography
  • NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (2007) Nominee, Cinematography
  • THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE (2001) Nominee, Cinematography
  • O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? (2000) Nominee, Cinematography
  • KUNDUN (1997) Nominee, Cinematography
  • FARGO (1996) Nominee, Cinematography
  • THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION (1994) Nominee, Cinematography

FILM SYNOPSIS

In late 1950s Germany, fifteen-year-old Michael Berg begins an affair with Hanna, a woman in her mid-thirties. Hanna's past contains a dark secret, however, the revelation of which, in the decades following the period of his first experience with love, will both shock Michael and force him to confront his country's history.
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