Roger Pratt, the Oscar-nominated cinematographer behind “Brazil,” “Batman” and the first two “Harry Potter” films, has died at the age of 77. The British Society of Cinematographers revealed news of Pratt’s death, but a cause of death and the exact date were not given.
Born in Leicester in 1947, Pratt met director Terry Gilliam was working as a second assistant cameraman on 1975’s “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.” Gilliam then tapped Pratt to serve as cinematographer on his landmark 1985 sci-fi film “Brazil,” which made a bold aesthetic choice with extremely wide lenses and tilted camera angles (called “canted angles”).