The 20 Best Pete Postlethwaite Movies
6) In The Name Of The Father (1993)
Back with Daniel Day-Lewis (who helped Pete secure his role in the film), Postlethwaite gives a performance that would go on to earn him his first and only Oscar nomination. In a supporting role, he plays Day-Lewis’s quiet, fiercely devoted father, who sticks by his son when he’s falsely accused of murder. Up against stiff competition at the Academy Awards that year (Ralph Fiennes for Schindler’s List, Leo DiCaprio for What’s Eating Gilbert Grape), Postlethwaite eventually lost out to Tommy Lee Jones for The Fugitive.
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