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Hoffman's late-career output, true to form, comprised a number of smaller quirky films in addition to a couple of high-profile, widely acclaimed dramas and one major genre franchise. He appeared as Art Howe in the acclaimed, Oscar-nominated 2011 biographical drama Moneyball, and teamed with Anderson one final time to star opposite Joaquin Phoenix in the 2012 drama The Master. For their work in that film, Hoffman, Phoenix, and their co-star Amy Adams were all nominated for Academy Awards.

Hoffman also took on parts in little-seen flicks such as the 2012 musical drama The Late Quartet and the 2014 potboiler God's Pocket, but he found perhaps his widest audience ever when he appeared as Plutarch Heavensbee in 2013's The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. He would go on to reprise the role in 2014's The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1 and 2015's The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2, the latter of which would unfortunately be his final credit.

On February 2, 2014, Hoffman was discovered dead at his Manhattan home by a friend; he was only 46 years old. His death was widely mourned in Hollywood circles and the world over, and in the years since his passing, his reputation has only grown. In an op-ed penned for the New York Times in July 2014, the author John le Carré — whose novel A Most Wanted Man was adapted into a film starring Hoffman — remarked on his legacy with trademark eloquence.

"He did what only the greatest actors can do," le Carré wrote. "He made his voice the only authentic one, the lonely one, the odd one out, the one you depended on amid all the others. And every time it left the stage, like the great man himself, you waited for its return with impatience and mounting unease. We shall wait a long time for another Philip."