Blade Runner 2049: Oscars Intro Review When proposing a movie scene for the U-Films Oscars intro, I immediately wanted to do something from Blade Runner 2049 – a film with some of the most beautiful visuals in cinema. Now obviously I didn’t believe we’d be able to replicate the simplistic yet intricate nature of the cinematography featured in 2049, after all it was shot by legendary cinematographer Roger Deakins (who finally won an Oscar for his efforts). For me. 2049 represents the pinnacle of cinematic achievement and motivates me in this industry, there’s a handful of films that have that kind of effect on me and this is definitely one of them. I initially was also going to use Drive (2011) and the elevator scene but the more I thought about it, the more I realised it would be way more effort than it was worth trying to pull it off (timing elevator doors, even finding an elevator big enough etc.) so I landed on this. I also found Drive to be a little too violent ...
