Awards & Winners

Pete Postlethwaite

Date of Birth 07-February-1946
Place of Birth Warrington
(Cheshire, England, United Kingdom, United Kingdom, with Dependencies and Territories)
Nationality United Kingdom
Also know as Peter William Postlethwaite, Peter Postlethwaite, Peter William "Pete" Postlethwaite, Peter William "Pete" Postlethwaite, OBE, Pete, Pete Postlethwaite, OBE, Peter William Postlethwaite, OBE
Profession Actor, Teacher, Dubbing
Peter William "Pete" Postlethwaite, OBE, was an English stage, film and television actor. After minor television appearances including in The Professionals, his first success came with the film Distant Voices, Still Lives in 1988. He played a mysterious lawyer, Mr. Kobayashi, in The Usual Suspects, and he appeared in Alien 3, Amistad, Brassed Off, The Shipping News, The Constant Gardener, The Age of Stupid, The Lost World: Jurassic Park and Romeo + Juliet. In television, He played Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill on Sharpe opposite Richard Sharpe, played by Sean Bean. Postlethwaite trained as a teacher and taught drama before training as an actor. Director Steven Spielberg called him "the best actor in the world" after working with him on The Lost World: Jurassic Park. He received an Academy Award nomination for his role in In the Name of the Father in 1993, and was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2004 New Year Honours list. A survivor of testicular cancer, he died from pancreatic cancer on 2 January 2011, aged 64.

Awards by Pete Postlethwaite

Check all the awards nominated and won by Pete Postlethwaite.

2011


Nominations 2011 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role The Town

2010


Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Ensemble
Honored for : The Town

Nominations 2010 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast The Town

2001


Nominations 2001 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
British Academy Television Award for Best Leading Actor The Sins

2000


Nominations 2000 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
British Academy Television Award for Best Leading Actor Lost for Words

1995


Nominations 1995 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
British Academy Television Award for Best Leading Actor Martin Chuzzlewit

1993


Nominations 1993 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role In the Name of the Father
Role: Giuseppe Conlon

1985


Nominations 1985 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Helen Hayes Awards for Outstanding Supporting Performer, Non-Resident Production Cyrano de Bergerac
for the production at The Kennedy Center