For Your Consideration: Skyfall

James Bond is no stranger to the Academy Awards, usually with nominations for Visual Effects, Sound Design, or Original Songs, but “Skyfall” will take on several other potential nominations this year, including the highly sought after Best Cinematography category with veteran Roger Deakins landing some incredible visuals. Roger Deakins has been nominated for Best Cinematography a record nine times, and this year will probably make it ten. Here’s a list of his year’s nominated and the films he worked on:

  •     1994: The Shawshank Redemption (nominated)
  •     1996: Fargo (nominated)
  •     1997: Kundun (nominated)
  •     2000: O Brother, Where Art Thou? (nominated)
  •     2001: The Man Who Wasn’t There (nominated)
  •     2007: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (nominated)
  •     2007: No Country for Old Men (nominated)
  •     2008: The Reader (nominated)
  •     2010: True Grit (nominated)

The other category I strongly hope to see “Skyfall” represent is Best Original Song, with a beautifully crafted main theme for the Bond film by Adele, which is not only a great achievement in song writing but embodies the film perfectly. Apart from those two highly profiled categories, “Skyfall” has a strong chance of nailing the Sound Design nominations, and a possibility of landing in the Visual Effects category. With two Academy Awards wins out of nine nominations, “Skyfall” has a chance not only to bring more gold into 007’s world, but will hopefully end Deakins dry spell with a much deserved win, not just in his career, but for this masterpiece.

  • 1965 Academy Award for Best Sound Effects; “Goldfinger” (Norman Wanstall)
  • 1966 Academy Award for Best Visual Effects; “Thunderball” (John Stears)
  • 1972 Nomination for Best Sound; “Diamonds Are Forever” (Gordon K. McCallum, John W. Mitchell, Al Overton)
  • 1974 Nomination for Best Song; “Live And Let Die” (Paul and Linda McCartney for “Live and Let Die”)
  • 1978 Nomination for Best Set Decoration; “The Spy Who Loved Me” (Ken Adam, Peter Lamont, Hugh Scaife)
  • 1978 Nomination for Best Original Score; “The Spy Who Loved Me” (Marvin Hamlisch)
  • 1978 Nomination for Best Song; “The Spy Who Loved Me” (Marvin Hamlisch for music, and Carole Bayer Sager for lyrics for “Nobody Does it Better”)
  • 1980 Nomination for Best Visual Effects; “Moonraker” (Derek Meddings, Paul Wilson, John Evans)
  • 1982 Nomination for Best Song; “For Your Eyes Only” (Bill Conti for music, and Mick Leeson for lyrics for “For Your Eyes Only”)

For your consideration in all categories

Best Picture of the Year

Produced by
Michael G. Wilson and
Barbara Broccoli

Best Director

Sam Mendes

Best Cinematography

Roger Deakins, ASC, BSC

Best Adapted Screenplay

Screenplay by
Neal Purvis & Robert Wade
and John Logan
Based on Characters Created by Ian Fleming

Best Film Editing

Stuart Baird, A.C.E.

Best Costume Design

Jany Temime

Best Actor

Daniel Craig

Best Supporting Actor

Javier Bardem
Ralph Fiennes
Albert Finney
Ben Whishaw

Best Supporting Actress

Judi Dench
Naomie Harris
Bérénice Marlohe

Best Makeup & Hairstyling

Hair and Makeup Designers
Naomi Donne
Zoe Tahir

Best Art Direction

Production Designer
Dennis Gassner
Set Decorator
Anna Pinnock

Best Original Song

“Skyfall”

Performed by Adele
Lyrics by Adele & Paul Epworth

Best Original Score

Thomas Newman

Best Sound Mixing

Production Sound Mixer
Scott Millan

Re-Recording Mixers
Greg P. Russell
Stuart Wilson

Best Sound Editing

Supervising Sound Editors
Per Hallberg
Karen Baker Landers

Best Visual Effects

VFX Supervisors
Steve Begg
Chris Corbould

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