Pete Postlethwaite, 1946-2011

I last saw Pete Postlethwaite on screen a couple of months ago in Ben Affleck's terrific heist drama The Town. The film features, in my opinion, the best ensemble cast in a film released in 2010 and Postlethwaite's brief but compelling performance perfectly fits among the remarkable work of Jeremy Renner, Blake Lively, Chris Cooper, Jon Hamm or Rebecca Hall.

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Oscar Countdown (I): CINEMATOGRAPHY

We are one week away from Oscar night and I've decided to start a daily instalment dedicated to the Awards, before publishing my final Oscar Predictions in the eve of the ceremony, which will take place on Sunday, 7 March.

I start this Oscar Countdown series with an award usually undervalued in its contribution to the final artistic achievement of a film due to its inherent allegiance to the so called technical categories: Best Cinematography.

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