The most famous shot in the film is a wonderful twofer: As Barton and Audrey (Judy Davis) get busy in the bedroom, the camera leaves them and wanders into the adjacent bathroom, where it plunges, snakelike, down the sink drain and into the pipes.(The two films were, not entirely coincidentally, my top two for the year.) Miraculously, Deakins’s collaboration with the Coens-he would work on ten more of their films after Barton Fink-proved to be even more successful than Sonnenfeld’s had been. ![]() It’s possible that in 2007 he lost by splitting his own vote, as he was nominated for both No Country for Old Men and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. He has been nominated for 11 Academy Awards for cinematography (five of them for his work on Coens films), without yet winning a single one-perhaps the greatest ongoing oversight at the Oscars. In his place, they hired Roger Deakins, who has gone on to have one of the most extraordinary careers in cinema. ![]()
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