Daniel Day - Lewis - wikipedia Daniel Day - Lewis This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 11 September 2017. Sir Daniel Day - Lewis Day - Lewis at a 2013 Jaguar Mille Miglia event Daniel Michael Blake Day - Lewis ( 1957 - 04 - 29 ) 29 April 1957 ( age 60 ) Kensington, London, England Residence Annamoe, County Wicklow, Ireland Alma mater Bristol Old Vic Theatre School Occupation Actor Years active 1970 -- 2017 Spouse ( s ) Rebecca Miller ( m. 1996 ) Partner ( s ) Isabelle Adjani ( 1989 -- 95 ) Children Parent ( s ) Cecil Day - Lewis Jill Balcon Relatives Michael Balcon ( grandfather ) Tamasin Day - Lewis ( sister ) Sir Daniel Michael Blake Day - Lewis ( born 29 April 1957 ) is an English actor who holds both British and Irish citizenship. Born and raised in London, he excelled on stage at the National Youth Theatre, before being accepted at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, which he attended for three years. Despite his traditional actor training at the Bristol Old Vic, he is considered to be a method actor, known for his constant devotion to and research of his roles. He would often remain completely in character for the duration of the shooting schedules of his films, even to the point of adversely affecting his health. He is one of the most selective actors in the film industry, having starred in only five films since 1998, with as many as five years between roles. Protective of his private life, he rarely gives interviews and makes very few public appearances. Day - Lewis shifted between theatre and film for most of the early 1980s, joining the Royal Shakespeare Company and playing Romeo in Romeo and Juliet and Flute in A Midsummer Night 's Dream, before appearing in the 1984 film The Bounty. He starred in My Beautiful Laundrette ( 1985 ), his first critically acclaimed role, and gained further public notice with A Room with a View ( 1985 ). He then assumed leading man status with The Unbearable Lightness of Being ( 1988 ). One of the most acclaimed actors of his generation, Day - Lewis has earned numerous awards, including three Academy Awards for Best Actor for his performances in My Left Foot ( 1989 ), There Will Be Blood ( 2007 ) and Lincoln ( 2012 ), making him the only male actor in history to have three wins in the lead actor category and one of only three male actors to win three Oscars. He was also nominated in this category for In the Name of the Father ( 1993 ) and Gangs of New York ( 2002 ). He has also won four BAFTA Awards for Best Actor, three Screen Actors Guild Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. In November 2012, Time named Day - Lewis the `` World 's Greatest Actor. '' In June 2014, he received a knighthood at Buckingham Palace for services to drama. Day - Lewis announced his retirement in 2017, following the completion of his acting role in Phantom Thread. Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2.1 1980s 2.2 1990s 2.3 2000s 2.4 2010s 3 Personal life 4 Filmography 4.1 Film 4.2 Television 4.3 Music 4.4 Theatre 5 See also 6 References 7 External links Early life Day - Lewis was born in Kensington, London, the son of poet Cecil Day - Lewis and English actress Jill Balcon. His father, who was born in Ballintubbert, County Laois, Ireland, was of Protestant Anglo - Irish and English background, lived in England from the age of two, and later became the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom. Day - Lewis 's mother was Jewish ; her ancestors were Jewish immigrants to England from Latvia and Poland. His maternal grandfather, Sir Michael Balcon, was the head of Ealing Studios. Two years after his birth, his family moved to Croom 's Hill, Greenwich, south - east London, where Day - Lewis grew up along with his older sister, Tamasin, who became a documentary filmmaker and television chef. Living in Greenwich ( he attended Invicta and Sherington Primary Schools ), Day - Lewis found himself among tough South London children, and, being `` Jewish '' and `` posh '', he was often bullied. He mastered the local accent and mannerisms and credits that as being his first convincing performance. Later in life, he has been known to speak of himself as very much a disorderly character in his younger years, often in trouble for shoplifting and other petty crimes. In 1968, Day - Lewis 's parents, finding his behaviour to be too wild, sent him to the independent Sevenoaks School in Kent as a boarder. At the school, he was introduced to his three most prominent interests : woodworking, acting, and fishing. His disdain for the school grew, and after two years at Sevenoaks, he was transferred to another independent school, Bedales in Petersfield, Hampshire, which his sister attended, and which had a more relaxed and creative ethos. The transfer led to his film debut at the age of 14 in Sunday Bloody Sunday in which he played a vandal in an uncredited role. He described the experience as `` heaven '', for getting paid £ 2 to vandalise expensive cars parked outside his local church. Interior of the Theatre Royal at the Bristol Old Vic where Day - Lewis performed. He called it `` the most beautiful theatre in England. '' For a few weeks in 1972, he and his parents and sister lived at Lemmons, the north London home of Kingsley Amis and Elizabeth Jane Howard. Cecil Day - Lewis had cancer and Howard invited the family to Lemmons as a place they could use to rest and recuperate. Cecil died there in May that year. Leaving Bedales in 1975, Day - Lewis 's unruly attitude had diminished and he needed to make a career choice. Although he had excelled on stage at the National Youth Theatre in London, he applied for a five - year apprenticeship as a cabinet - maker, but was rejected due to lack of experience. He was then accepted at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, which he attended for three years along with Miranda Richardson, eventually performing at the Bristol Old Vic itself. At one point he played understudy to Pete Postlethwaite, with whom he would later co-star in the film In the Name of the Father. John Hartoch, Day - Lewis 's acting teacher at Bristol Old Vic, recalls, `` There was something about him even then. He was quiet and polite, but he was clearly focused on his acting -- he had a burning quality. He seemed to have something burning beneath the surface. There was a lot going on beneath that quiet appearance. There was one performance in particular, when the students put on a play called Class Energy, when he really seemed to shine -- and it became obvious to us, the staff, that we had someone rather special on our hands. '' Career 1980s During the early 1980s, Day - Lewis worked in theatre and television including Frost in May ( where he played an impotent man - child ) and How Many Miles to Babylon ? ( as a World War I officer torn between allegiances to Britain and Ireland ) for the BBC. Eleven years after his film debut, Day - Lewis continued his film career with a small part in Gandhi ( 1982 ) as Colin, a South African street thug who racially bullies the title character, only to be immediately chastised by his high - strung mother. In late 1982 he had his big theatre break when he took over the lead in Another Country. The following year, he had a supporting role as the conflicted, but ultimately loyal first mate in The Bounty, after which he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, playing Romeo in Romeo and Juliet and Flute in A Midsummer Night 's Dream. In 1985, Day - Lewis gave his first critically acclaimed performance playing a gay man in an interracial relationship in the film My Beautiful Laundrette, set in 1980s London during the period when Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister. Day - Lewis gained further public notice with A Room with a View ( 1985 ). Set in the Edwardian period of turn - of - the - twentieth - century England, he portrayed an entirely different character : Cecil Vyse, the proper upper class fiancé of the main character. In 1987, Day - Lewis assumed leading man status by starring in Philip Kaufman 's adaptation of Milan Kundera 's The Unbearable Lightness of Being, where he portrayed a Czech surgeon whose hyperactive sex life is thrown into disarray when he allows himself to become emotionally involved with a woman. During the eight - month shoot he learned Czech and first began to refuse to break character on or off the set for the entire shooting schedule. During this period, Day - Lewis and other young British actors of the time such as Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tim Roth, and Bruce Payne, were dubbed the `` Brit Pack ''. Day - Lewis threw his personal version of method acting into full throttle in 1989 with his performance as Christy Brown in Jim Sheridan 's My Left Foot, which garnered him numerous awards, including the Academy Award for Best Actor and BAFTA Award for Best Actor. Brown, a writer and painter, was born with cerebral palsy and was only able to control his left foot. Day - Lewis prepared for the role by making frequent visits to Sandymount School Clinic in Dublin, where he formed friendships with several people with disabilities, some of whom had no speech. During filming, he refused to break character. Playing a severely paralysed character on screen, off screen Day - Lewis had to be moved around the set in his wheelchair, and crew members would curse at having to lift him over camera and lighting wires, all so that he might gain insight into all aspects of Brown 's life, including the embarrassments. Crew members were also required to spoon - feed him. It was rumoured that he had broken two ribs during filming from assuming a hunched - over position in his wheelchair for so many weeks, something he denied years later at the 2013 Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Day - Lewis returned to the stage in 1989 to work with Richard Eyre, in Hamlet at the National Theatre, London, but collapsed during the scene where the ghost of Hamlet 's father appears before him. He began sobbing uncontrollably and refused to go back on stage ; he was replaced by Jeremy Northam who finished the performance word - and - action - perfect and received a standing ovation. Ian Charleson then formally replaced Day - Lewis for the rest of the run, except that Charleson 's ill - health forced Northam to stand in again many times. Although the incident was officially attributed to exhaustion, Day - Lewis later claimed to have seen the ghost of his own father. He has not appeared on stage since. The media attention following his breakdown on - stage contributed to his decision to eventually move from England to Ireland in the mid-1990s to regain a sense of privacy amidst his increasing fame. 1990s In 1992, three years after his Oscar win, The Last of the Mohicans was released. Day - Lewis 's character research for this film was well - publicised ; he reportedly underwent rigorous weight training and learned to live off the land and forest where his character lived, camping, hunting and fishing. Day - Lewis also added to his wood - working skills and learned how to make canoes. He carried a long rifle at all times during filming to remain in character and learned how to skin animals. Stories of his immersion in roles are legion. Playing Gerry Conlon In the Name of the Father, Day - Lewis lived on prison rations to lose 30 lb, spent extended periods in the jail cell on set, went without sleep for two days, was interrogated for three days by real policemen, and asked that the crew hurl abuse and cold water at him. For The Boxer in 1997, he trained for weeks with the former world champion Barry McGuigan who said that he became good enough to turn professional. The actor 's injuries include a broken nose and a damaged disc in his lower back. -- `` Day - Lewis aims for perfection '', The Telegraph He returned to work with Jim Sheridan on In the Name of the Father, in which he played Gerry Conlon, one of the Guildford Four who were wrongfully convicted of a bombing carried out by the Provisional IRA. He lost 30lbs for the part, kept his Northern Irish accent on and off the set for the entire shooting schedule, and spent stretches of time in a prison cell. He also insisted that crew members throw cold water at him and verbally abuse him. The film earned him his second Academy Award nomination, third BAFTA nomination, and second Golden Globe nomination. Day - Lewis returned in 1993, playing Newland Archer in Martin Scorsese 's adaptation of the Edith Wharton novel The Age of Innocence. To prepare for the film, set in America 's Gilded Age, he wore 1870s - period aristocratic clothing around New York City for two months, including top hat, cane and cape. In 1996, Day - Lewis starred in The Crucible, a film version of the play by Arthur Miller. During the shoot he met his future wife, Rebecca Miller, the author 's daughter. He followed that with Jim Sheridan 's The Boxer as a former boxer and IRA member recently released from prison. His preparation included training with former boxing world champion Barry McGuigan, and attending professional boxing matches such as the Nigel Benn vs. Gerald McClellan world title fight at London Arena. Following The Boxer, Day - Lewis took a leave of absence from acting by going into `` semi-retirement '' and returning to his old passion of woodworking. He moved to Florence, Italy, where he became intrigued by the craft of shoemaking, eventually apprenticing as a shoemaker with Stefano Bemer. For a time his exact whereabouts and actions were not made publicly known. 2000s Day - Lewis in New York, 2007 After a five - year absence from filming, Day - Lewis returned to act in Gangs of New York ( 2002 ), directed by Scorsese and produced by Harvey Weinstein. In his role as the villainous gang leader William `` Bill the Butcher '' Cutting, he starred alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, who played Bill 's young protégé. He began his lengthy, self - disciplined process by taking lessons as an apprentice butcher, hiring a butcher from Peckham, south London to instruct him in carving up carcasses. He also hired circus performers to teach him to throw knives. While filming, he was never out of character between takes ( including keeping his character 's New York accent ). At one point during filming, having been diagnosed with pneumonia, he refused to wear a warmer coat or to take treatment because it was not in keeping with the period ; however, he was eventually persuaded to seek medical treatment. His performance in Gangs of New York earned him his third Academy Award nomination and won him his second BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Day - Lewis at the 61st British Academy Film Awards in London, 10 February 2008 After Gangs of New York, Day - Lewis 's wife, director Rebecca Miller offered him the lead role in her film The Ballad of Jack and Rose, in which he played a dying man with regrets over how his life had evolved and over how he had brought up his teenage daughter. During filming he arranged to live separately from his wife to achieve the `` isolation '' needed to focus on his own character 's reality. The film received mixed reviews. In 2007, Day - Lewis starred in director Paul Thomas Anderson 's loose adaptation of the Upton Sinclair novel Oil !, titled There Will Be Blood. Day - Lewis received the Academy Award for Best Actor, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor -- Motion Picture Drama, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role ( which he dedicated to Heath Ledger, saying that he was inspired by Ledger 's acting and calling the actor 's performance in Brokeback Mountain `` unique, perfect '' ), and a variety of film critics ' circle awards for the role. In winning the Best Actor Oscar, Day - Lewis joined Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson as the only Best Actor winners awarded an Oscar in two non-consecutive decades. In 2009, Day - Lewis starred in Rob Marshall 's musical adaptation Nine as film director Guido Contini. Day - Lewis was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor -- Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and the Satellite Award for Best Actor -- Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his role, as well as sharing nominations for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture and the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast and the Satellite Award for Best Cast -- Motion Picture with the rest of the cast members. 2010s Daniel Day - Lewis viewing the Gettysburg Address in the Lincoln Bedroom in the White House, November 2012 Day - Lewis played Abraham Lincoln in Steven Spielberg 's film Lincoln ( 2012 ). Based on the book Team of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, the film began shooting in Richmond, Virginia in October 2011. Day - Lewis spent a year in preparation for the role, a time he had requested from Spielberg. He read over 100 books on Lincoln, and long worked with the makeup artist to achieve a physical likeness to Lincoln. Lincoln received widespread critical acclaim, much of it directed to Day - Lewis 's performance. It also became a commercial success, grossing over $275 million worldwide. In November 2012, Day - Lewis received the BAFTA Britannia Award for Excellence in Film. `` He 's like Olivier in his prime. ( Because he does so few movies ) you expect something spectacular when he 's got a film out. He 's more selective than Brando, and it 's turned his movies into events. '' -- David Poland on Day - Lewis, February 2013. At the 70th Golden Globe Awards on 14 January 2013, Day - Lewis won his second Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, and at the 66th British Academy Film Awards on 10 February, he won his fourth BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. At the 85th Academy Awards, Day - Lewis became the first three - time recipient of the Best Actor Oscar for his role in Lincoln. John Hartoch, Day - Lewis 's acting teacher at Bristol Old Vic theatre school, lauded his achievement, `` Although we have quite an impressive alumni -- everyone from Jeremy Irons to Patrick Stewart -- I suppose he is now probably the best known, and we 're very proud of all he 's achieved. I certainly hold him up to current students of an example, particularly as an example of how to manage your career with great integrity. He 's never courted fame, and as a result he 's never had his private life impeached upon by the press. He 's clearly not interested in celebrity as such -- he 's just interested in his acting. He is still a great craftsman. '' Shortly after winning the Oscar for Lincoln, Day - Lewis announced he would be taking a break from acting, retreating back to his Georgian farmhouse in County Wicklow for the next five years, before making another film. His first acting role in just under five years will be Phantom Thread, set in the London fashion industry in the 1950s, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Filming began in Whitby, north Yorkshire in January 2017, with an intended release in late 2017. On 20 June 2017, Day - Lewis ' spokeswoman, Leslee Dart, announced that he was retiring from acting. Personal life Day - Lewis and Rebecca Miller at the 80th Academy Awards Day - Lewis rarely discusses his personal life. Protective of his privacy, he described his life as a `` lifelong study in evasion ''. He had a relationship with French actress Isabelle Adjani which lasted six years, eventually ending after a split and reconciliation. Their son Gabriel - Kane Day - Lewis was born in 1995 in New York City, a few months after the relationship ended. In 1996, while working on the film version of the stage play The Crucible, he visited the home of playwright Arthur Miller where he was introduced to the writer 's daughter, Rebecca Miller. They married later that year. The couple have two sons, Ronan Cal Day - Lewis ( born 1998 ) and Cashel Blake Day - Lewis ( born 2002 ) and divide their time between their homes in New York City and Ireland. Day - Lewis became an Irish citizen in 1993 and currently holds British and Irish dual citizenship. He has lived in Annamoe, County Wicklow since 1997. He stated `` I do have dual citizenship, but I think of England as my country. I miss London very much but I could n't live there because there came a time when I needed to be private and was forced to be public by the press. I could n't deal with it ''. He is a supporter of South - East London football club Millwall. On 15 July 2010, Day - Lewis received an honorary doctorate in letters from the University of Bristol, in part because of his attendance of the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in his youth. Day - Lewis has stated that he had `` no real religious education '' and that he `` suppose ( s ) '' he is `` a die - hard agnostic ''. In October 2012, he donated to Oxford University papers belonging to his father, the poet Cecil Day - Lewis, including early drafts of the poet 's work and letters from actor John Gielgud and literary figures such as W.H. Auden, Robert Graves, and Philip Larkin. In July 2015, he became the Honorary President of the Poetry Archive. A registered UK charity, the Poetry Archive is a free website containing a growing collection of recordings of English - language poets reading their work. In 2008, when he received the Academy Award for Best Actor from Helen Mirren ( who was on presenting duty having won the previous year 's Best Actress Oscar for playing Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen ), Day - Lewis knelt before her and she tapped him on each shoulder with the Oscar statuette, to which he quipped ; `` That 's the closest I 'll come to ever getting a knighthood ''. In June 2014, Day - Lewis was made a Knight Bachelor in the 2014 Birthday Honours for services to drama. In November 2014, he was formally knighted by Prince William at Buckingham Palace. Filmography Film Year Title Role Director Notes 1971 Sunday Bloody Sunday Child Vandal John Schlesinger Uncredited 1982 Gandhi Colin Richard Attenborough 1984 Bounty, The The Bounty John Fryer Roger Donaldson 1985 My Beautiful Laundrette Johnny Stephen Frears Room with a View, AA Room with a View Cecil Vyse James Ivory 1986 Nanou Maxo Conny Templeman Unbearable Lightness of Being, The The Unbearable Lightness of Being Tomas Philip Kaufman Stars and Bars Henderson Dores Pat O'Connor 1989 Eversmile, New Jersey Fergus O'Connell Carlos Sorín My Left Foot Christy Brown Jim Sheridan Academy Award for Best Actor BAFTA Award for Best Actor Nominated -- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor Last of the Mohicans, The The Last of the Mohicans Hawkeye ( Nathaniel Poe ) Michael Mann Age of Innocence, The The Age of Innocence Newland Archer Martin Scorsese In the Name of the Father Gerry Conlon Jim Sheridan Nominated -- Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated -- BAFTA Award for Best Actor Crucible, The The Crucible John Proctor Nicholas Hytner Boxer, The The Boxer Danny Flynn Jim Sheridan Nominated -- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor 2002 Gangs of New York William `` Bill the Butcher '' Cutting Martin Scorsese BAFTA Award for Best Actor Nominated -- Academy Award for Best Actor 2005 Ballad of Jack and Rose, The The Ballad of Jack and Rose Jack Slavin Rebecca Miller 2007 There Will Be Blood Daniel Plainview Paul Thomas Anderson Academy Award for Best Actor BAFTA Award for Best Actor Golden Globe Award for Best Actor 2009 Nine Guido Contini Rob Marshall Nominated -- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor 2012 Lincoln Abraham Lincoln Steven Spielberg Academy Award for Best Actor BAFTA Award for Best Actor Golden Globe Award for Best Actor 2017 Phantom Thread Charles James Paul Thomas Anderson Post-production Television Year Title Role Notes 1980 Shoestring DJ Episode : `` The Farmer Had a Wife '' 1981 Thank You, P.G. Wodehouse Psmith Television film Artemis 81 Library Student Television film 1982 How Many Miles to Babylon ? Alec Television film Frost in May Archie Hughes - Forret Episode : `` Beyond the Glass '' Play of the Month Gordon Whitehouse Episode : `` Dangerous Corner '' 1985 My Brother Jonathan Jonathan Dakers 5 episodes 1986 The Insurance Man Dr. Kafka Television film Music Year Title Role Notes 2005 The Ballad of Jack and Rose Original score producer 2009 Nine Performer on `` Guido 's Song '', `` I Ca n't Make This Movie '' Theatre Year Title Role Director Theatre 1979 The Recruiting Officer Townsperson / Soldier Adrian Noble Theatre Royal, Bristol Troilus and Cressida Deiphobus Richard Cottrell Theatre Royal, Bristol Funny Peculiar Stanley Baldry Pete Postlethwaite Little Theatre, Bristol 1979 -- 80 Old King Cole The Amazing Faz Bob Crowley Old Vic Theatre, Bristol 1980 Class Enemy Iron David Rome Old Vic Theatre, Bristol Edward II Leicester Richard Cottrell Old Vic Theatre, Bristol Oh, What a Lovely War ! Unknown David Tucker Theatre Royal, Bristol A Midsummer Night 's Dream Philostrate Richard Cottrell Theatre Royal, Bristol 1981 Look Back in Anger Jimmy Porter George Costigan Little Theatre, Bristol Dracula Count Dracula George Costigan Little Theatre, Bristol 1982 -- 83 Another Country Guy Bennett Stuart Burge Queen 's Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue 1983 -- 84 A Midsummer Night 's Dream & Romeo and Juliet Puck & Flute respectively Sheila Hancock & John Caird On a Royal Shakespeare Company Regional Tour 1984 Dracula Count Dracula Christopher Bond Half Moon Theatre, London 1986 Futurists Volodya Mayakovsky Richard Eyre Royal National Theatre, London 1989 Hamlet Hamlet Richard Eyre Royal National Theatre, London See also Book : Daniel Day - Lewis List of people on the postage stamps of Ireland List of awards and nominations received by Daniel Day - Lewis List of actors with two or more Academy Awards in acting categories References ^ Day Lewis Given Freedom of Wicklow ^ `` Daniel Day - Lewis Spoofs Clint Eastwood 's Obama Chair Routine at Britannia Awards ''. 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Retrieved 15 November 2014 External links Find more aboutDaniel Day - Lewisat Wikipedia 's sister projects Media from Commons Quotations from Wikiquote Data from Wikidata Daniel Day - Lewis on IMDb Daniel Day - Lewis at the British Film Institute 's Screenonline Daniel Day - Lewis at DMOZ Awards and achievements Preceded by Dustin Hoffman for Rain Man Academy Award for Best Actor 1989 for My Left Foot Succeeded by Jeremy Irons for Reversal of Fortune Preceded by Forest Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland Academy Award for Best Actor 2007 for There Will Be Blood Succeeded by Sean Penn for Milk Preceded by Jean Dujardin for The Artist Academy Award for Best Actor 2012 for Lincoln Succeeded by Matthew McConaughey for Dallas Buyers Club Daniel Day - Lewis filmography Starring roles My Beautiful Laundrette ( 1985 ) A Room with a View Nanou ( 1986 ) The Unbearable Lightness of Being ( 1988 ) Stars and Bars Eversmile, New Jersey ( 1989 ) My Left Foot The Last of the Mohicans ( 1992 ) The Age of Innocence ( 1993 ) In the Name of the Father The Crucible ( 1996 ) The Boxer ( 1997 ) Gangs of New York ( 2002 ) The Ballad of Jack and Rose ( 2005 ) There Will Be Blood ( 2007 ) Nine ( 2009 ) Lincoln ( 2012 ) Phantom Thread ( 2017 ) Non-starring roles Sunday Bloody Sunday ( 1971 ) Artemis 81 ( 1981 ) Gandhi ( 1982 ) The Bounty ( 1984 ) Awards for Daniel Day - Lewis Academy Award for Best Actor 1928 -- 1950 Emil Jannings ( 1928 ) Warner Baxter ( 1929 ) George Arliss ( 1930 ) Lionel Barrymore ( 1931 ) Fredric March / Wallace Beery ( 1932 ) Charles Laughton ( 1933 ) Clark Gable ( 1934 ) Victor McLaglen ( 1935 ) Paul Muni ( 1936 ) Spencer Tracy ( 1937 ) Spencer Tracy ( 1938 ) Robert Donat ( 1939 ) James Stewart ( 1940 ) Gary Cooper ( 1941 ) James Cagney ( 1942 ) Paul Lukas ( 1943 ) Bing Crosby ( 1944 ) Ray Milland ( 1945 ) Fredric March ( 1946 ) Ronald Colman ( 1947 ) Laurence Olivier ( 1948 ) Broderick Crawford ( 1949 ) José Ferrer ( 1950 ) 1951 -- 1975 Humphrey Bogart ( 1951 ) Gary Cooper ( 1952 ) William Holden ( 1953 ) Marlon Brando ( 1954 ) Ernest Borgnine ( 1955 ) Yul Brynner ( 1956 ) Alec Guinness ( 1957 ) David Niven ( 1958 ) Charlton Heston ( 1959 ) Burt Lancaster ( 1960 ) Maximilian Schell ( 1961 ) Gregory Peck ( 1962 ) Sidney Poitier ( 1963 ) Rex Harrison ( 1964 ) Lee Marvin ( 1965 ) Paul Scofield ( 1966 ) Rod Steiger ( 1967 ) Cliff Robertson ( 1968 ) John Wayne ( 1969 ) George C. Scott ( 1970 ) Gene Hackman ( 1971 ) Marlon Brando ( 1972 ) Jack Lemmon ( 1973 ) Art Carney ( 1974 ) Jack Nicholson ( 1975 ) 1976 -- 2000 Peter Finch ( 1976 ) Richard Dreyfuss ( 1977 ) Jon Voight ( 1978 ) Dustin Hoffman ( 1979 ) Robert De Niro ( 1980 ) Henry Fonda ( 1981 ) Ben Kingsley ( 1982 ) Robert Duvall ( 1983 ) F. Murray Abraham ( 1984 ) William Hurt ( 1985 ) Paul Newman ( 1986 ) Michael Douglas ( 1987 ) Dustin Hoffman ( 1988 ) Daniel Day - Lewis ( 1989 ) Jeremy Irons ( 1990 ) Anthony Hopkins ( 1991 ) Al Pacino ( 1992 ) Tom Hanks ( 1993 ) Tom Hanks ( 1994 ) Nicolas Cage ( 1995 ) Geoffrey Rush ( 1996 ) Jack Nicholson ( 1997 ) Roberto Benigni ( 1998 ) Kevin Spacey ( 1999 ) Russell Crowe ( 2000 ) 2001 -- present Denzel Washington ( 2001 ) Adrien Brody ( 2002 ) Sean Penn ( 2003 ) Jamie Foxx ( 2004 ) Philip Seymour Hoffman ( 2005 ) Forest Whitaker ( 2006 ) Daniel Day - Lewis ( 2007 ) Sean Penn ( 2008 ) Jeff Bridges ( 2009 ) Colin Firth ( 2010 ) Jean Dujardin ( 2011 ) Daniel Day - Lewis ( 2012 ) Matthew McConaughey ( 2013 ) Eddie Redmayne ( 2014 ) Leonardo DiCaprio ( 2015 ) Casey Affleck ( 2016 ) refused award that year AACTA International Award for Best Actor Jean Dujardin ( 2011 ) Daniel Day - Lewis ( 2012 ) Chiwetel Ejiofor ( 2013 ) Michael Keaton ( 2014 ) Leonardo DiCaprio ( 2015 ) Casey Affleck ( 2016 ) BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role 1952 -- 1967 Ralph Richardson British, Marlon Brando Foreign ( 1952 ) John Gielgud British, Marlon Brando Foreign ( 1953 ) Kenneth More British, Marlon Brando Foreign ( 1954 ) Laurence Olivier British, Ernest Borgnine Foreign ( 1955 ) Peter Finch British, François Périer Foreign ( 1956 ) Alec Guinness British, Henry Fonda Foreign ( 1957 ) Trevor Howard British, Sidney Poitier Foreign ( 1958 ) Peter Sellers British, Jack Lemmon Foreign ( 1959 ) Peter Finch British, Jack Lemmon Foreign ( 1960 ) Peter Finch British, Paul Newman Foreign ( 1961 ) Peter O'Toole British, Burt Lancaster Foreign ( 1962 ) Dirk Bogarde British, Marcello Mastroianni Foreign ( 1963 ) Richard Attenborough British, Marcello Mastroianni Foreign ( 1964 ) Dirk Bogarde British, Lee Marvin Foreign ( 1965 ) Richard Burton British, Rod Steiger Foreign ( 1966 ) Paul Scofield British, Rod Steiger Foreign ( 1967 ) 1968 -- present Spencer Tracy ( 1968 ) Dustin Hoffman ( 1969 ) Robert Redford ( 1970 ) Peter Finch ( 1971 ) Gene Hackman ( 1972 ) Walter Matthau ( 1973 ) Jack Nicholson ( 1974 ) Al Pacino ( 1975 ) Jack Nicholson ( 1976 ) Peter Finch ( 1977 ) Richard Dreyfuss ( 1978 ) Jack Lemmon ( 1979 ) John Hurt ( 1980 ) Burt Lancaster ( 1981 ) Ben Kingsley ( 1982 ) Michael Caine / Dustin Hoffman ( 1983 ) Haing S. Ngor ( 1984 ) William Hurt ( 1985 ) Bob Hoskins ( 1986 ) Sean Connery ( 1987 ) John Cleese ( 1988 ) Daniel Day - Lewis ( 1989 ) Philippe Noiret ( 1990 ) Anthony Hopkins ( 1991 ) Robert Downey Jr. ( 1992 ) Anthony Hopkins ( 1993 ) Hugh Grant ( 1994 ) Nigel Hawthorne ( 1995 ) Geoffrey Rush ( 1996 ) Robert Carlyle ( 1997 ) Roberto Benigni ( 1998 ) Kevin Spacey ( 1999 ) Jamie Bell ( 2000 ) Russell Crowe ( 2001 ) Daniel Day - Lewis ( 2002 ) Bill Murray ( 2003 ) Jamie Foxx ( 2004 ) Philip Seymour Hoffman ( 2005 ) Forest Whitaker ( 2006 ) Daniel Day - Lewis ( 2007 ) Mickey Rourke ( 2008 ) Colin Firth ( 2009 ) Colin Firth ( 2010 ) Jean Dujardin ( 2011 ) Daniel Day - Lewis ( 2012 ) Chiwetel Ejiofor ( 2013 ) Eddie Redmayne ( 2014 ) Leonardo DiCaprio ( 2015 ) Casey Affleck ( 2016 ) BAFTA Los Angeles Britannia Awards Excellence in Film Albert R. Broccoli ( 1989 ) Michael Caine ( 1990 ) Peter Ustinov ( 1992 ) Martin Scorsese ( 1993 ) Anthony Hopkins ( 1995 ) Bob Weinstein and Harvey Weinstein ( 1996 ) Dustin Hoffman ( 1997 ) John Travolta ( 1998 ) Stanley Kubrick ( 1999 ) Steven Spielberg ( 2000 ) George Lucas ( 2002 ) Hugh Grant ( 2003 ) Tom Hanks ( 2004 ) Tom Cruise ( 2005 ) Clint Eastwood ( 2006 ) Denzel Washington ( 2007 ) Sean Penn ( 2008 ) Robert De Niro ( 2009 ) Jeff Bridges ( 2010 ) Warren Beatty ( 2011 ) Daniel Day - Lewis ( 2012 ) George Clooney ( 2013 ) Robert Downey Jr. ( 2014 ) Meryl Streep ( 2015 ) Jodie Foster ( 2016 ) Excellence in Directing Peter Weir ( 2003 ) Jim Sheridan ( 2004 ) Mike Newell ( 2005 ) Anthony Minghella ( 2006 ) Martin Campbell ( 2007 ) Stephen Frears ( 2008 ) Danny Boyle ( 2009 ) Christopher Nolan ( 2010 ) David Yates ( 2011 ) Quentin Tarantino ( 2012 ) Kathryn Bigelow ( 2013 ) Mike Leigh ( 2014 ) Sam Mendes ( 2015 ) Ang Lee ( 2016 ) Ava DuVernay ( 2017 ) Worldwide Contribution to Entertainment Howard Stringer ( 2003 ) Kirk Douglas ( 2009 ) Ridley Scott & Tony Scott ( 2010 ) John Lasseter ( 2011 ) Will Wright ( 2012 ) Ben Kingsley ( 2013 ) Judi Dench ( 2014 ) Harrison Ford ( 2015 ) Samuel L. 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Ngor ( 1984 ) Jack Nicholson ( 1985 ) Bob Hoskins ( 1986 ) Albert Brooks ( 1987 ) Daniel Day - Lewis ( 1988 ) Daniel Day - Lewis ( 1989 ) Jeremy Irons ( 1990 ) Nick Nolte ( 1991 ) Denzel Washington ( 1992 ) Daniel Day - Lewis ( 1993 ) Albert Finney ( 1994 ) Nicolas Cage ( 1995 ) Geoffrey Rush ( 1996 ) Al Pacino ( 1997 ) Brendan Gleeson ( 1998 ) Jim Carrey ( 1999 ) Colin Farrell ( 2000 ) Brian Cox / Denzel Washington ( 2001 ) Adrien Brody ( 2002 ) Bill Murray ( 2003 ) Jamie Foxx ( 2004 ) Philip Seymour Hoffman ( 2005 ) Forest Whitaker ( 2006 ) Frank Langella ( 2007 ) Sean Penn / Mickey Rourke ( 2008 ) Jeremy Renner ( 2009 ) Jesse Eisenberg ( 2010 ) Brad Pitt ( 2011 ) Daniel Day - Lewis ( 2012 ) Chiwetel Ejiofor ( 2013 ) Michael Keaton ( 2014 ) Paul Dano / Leonardo DiCaprio ( 2015 ) Casey Affleck ( 2016 ) Critics ' Choice Movie Award for Best Actor Kevin Bacon ( 1995 ) Geoffrey Rush ( 1996 ) Jack Nicholson ( 1997 ) Ian McKellen ( 1998 ) Russell Crowe ( 1999 ) Russell Crowe ( 2000 ) Russell Crowe ( 2001 ) Daniel Day - Lewis / Jack Nicholson ( 2002 ) Sean Penn ( 2003 ) Jamie Foxx ( 2004 ) Philip Seymour Hoffman ( 2005 ) Forest Whitaker ( 2006 ) Daniel Day - Lewis ( 2007 ) Sean Penn ( 2008 ) Jeff Bridges ( 2009 ) Colin Firth ( 2010 ) George Clooney ( 2011 ) Daniel Day - Lewis ( 2012 ) Matthew McConaughey ( 2013 ) Michael Keaton ( 2014 ) Leonardo DiCaprio ( 2015 ) Casey Affleck ( 2016 ) Golden Globe Award for Best Actor -- Motion Picture Drama 1943 -- 1960 Paul Lukas ( 1943 ) Alexander Knox ( 1944 ) Ray Milland ( 1945 ) Gregory Peck ( 1946 ) Ronald Colman ( 1947 ) Laurence Olivier ( 1948 ) Broderick Crawford ( 1949 ) José Ferrer ( 1950 ) Fredric March ( 1951 ) Gary Cooper ( 1952 ) Spencer Tracy ( 1953 ) Marlon Brando ( 1954 ) Ernest Borgnine ( 1955 ) Kirk Douglas ( 1956 ) Alec Guinness ( 1957 ) David Niven ( 1958 ) Anthony Franciosa ( 1959 ) Burt Lancaster ( 1960 ) 1961 -- 1980 Maximilian Schell ( 1961 ) Gregory Peck ( 1962 ) Sidney Poitier ( 1963 ) Peter O'Toole ( 1964 ) Omar Sharif ( 1965 ) Paul Scofield ( 1966 ) Rod Steiger ( 1967 ) Peter O'Toole ( 1968 ) John Wayne ( 1969 ) George C. Scott ( 1970 ) Gene Hackman ( 1971 ) Marlon Brando ( 1972 ) Al Pacino ( 1973 ) Jack Nicholson ( 1974 ) Jack Nicholson ( 1975 ) Peter Finch ( 1976 ) Richard Burton ( 1977 ) Jon Voight ( 1978 ) Dustin Hoffman ( 1979 ) Robert De Niro ( 1980 ) 1981 -- 2000 Henry Fonda ( 1981 ) Ben Kingsley ( 1982 ) Robert Duvall / Tom Courtenay ( 1983 ) F. Murray Abraham ( 1984 ) Jon Voight ( 1985 ) Bob Hoskins ( 1986 ) Michael Douglas ( 1987 ) Dustin Hoffman ( 1988 ) Tom Cruise ( 1989 ) Jeremy Irons ( 1990 ) Nick Nolte ( 1991 ) Al Pacino ( 1992 ) Tom Hanks ( 1993 ) Tom Hanks ( 1994 ) Nicolas Cage ( 1995 ) Geoffrey Rush ( 1996 ) Peter Fonda ( 1997 ) Jim Carrey ( 1998 ) Denzel Washington ( 1999 ) Tom Hanks ( 2000 ) 2001 -- present Russell Crowe ( 2001 ) Jack Nicholson ( 2002 ) Sean Penn ( 2003 ) Leonardo DiCaprio ( 2004 ) Philip Seymour Hoffman ( 2005 ) Forest Whitaker ( 2006 ) Daniel Day - Lewis ( 2007 ) Mickey Rourke ( 2008 ) Jeff Bridges ( 2009 ) Colin Firth ( 2010 ) George Clooney ( 2011 ) Daniel Day - Lewis ( 2012 ) Matthew McConaughey ( 2013 ) Eddie Redmayne ( 2014 ) Leonardo DiCaprio ( 2015 ) Casey Affleck ( 2016 ) London Film Critics ' Circle Award for Actor of the Year Philippe Noiret ( 1990 ) Gérard Depardieu ( 1991 ) Robert Downey Jr. ( 1992 ) Anthony Hopkins ( 1993 ) John Travolta ( 1994 ) Johnny Depp ( 1995 ) Morgan Freeman ( 1996 ) Geoffrey Rush ( 1997 ) Jack Nicholson ( 1998 ) Kevin Spacey ( 1999 ) Russell Crowe ( 2000 ) Billy Bob Thornton ( 2001 ) Michael Caine ( 2002 ) Sean Penn ( 2003 ) Jamie Foxx ( 2004 ) Bruno Ganz ( 2005 ) Forest Whitaker ( 2006 ) Daniel Day - Lewis ( 2007 ) Mickey Rourke ( 2008 ) Christoph Waltz ( 2009 ) Colin Firth ( 2010 ) Jean Dujardin ( 2011 ) Joaquin Phoenix ( 2012 ) Chiwetel Ejiofor ( 2013 ) Michael Keaton ( 2014 ) Tom Courtenay ( 2015 ) Casey Affleck ( 2016 ) London Film Critics ' Circle Award for British Actor of the Year Alan Rickman ( 1991 ) Daniel Day - Lewis ( 1992 ) David Thewlis ( 1993 ) Ralph Fiennes ( 1994 ) Nigel Hawthorne ( 1995 ) Ewan McGregor / Ian McKellen ( 1996 ) Robert Carlyle ( 1997 ) Brendan Gleeson ( 1998 ) Jeremy Northam ( 1999 ) Jim Broadbent ( 2000 ) Paul Bettany ( 2001 ) Hugh Grant ( 2002 ) Paul Bettany ( 2003 ) Daniel Craig ( 2004 ) Ralph Fiennes ( 2005 ) Toby Jones ( 2006 ) James McAvoy ( 2007 ) Michael Fassbender ( 2008 ) Colin Firth ( 2009 ) Christian Bale ( 2010 ) Michael Fassbender ( 2011 ) Toby Jones ( 2012 ) James McAvoy ( 2013 ) Timothy Spall ( 2014 ) Tom Hardy ( 2015 ) Andrew Garfield ( 2016 ) Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor Al Pacino ( 1975 ) Robert De Niro ( 1976 ) Richard Dreyfuss ( 1977 ) Jon Voight ( 1978 ) Dustin Hoffman ( 1979 ) Robert De Niro ( 1980 ) Burt Lancaster ( 1981 ) Ben Kingsley ( 1982 ) Robert Duvall ( 1983 ) F. Murray Abraham / Albert Finney ( 1984 ) William Hurt ( 1985 ) Bob Hoskins ( 1986 ) Jack Nicholson / Steve Martin ( 1987 ) Tom Hanks ( 1988 ) Daniel Day - Lewis ( 1989 ) Jeremy Irons ( 1990 ) Nick Nolte ( 1991 ) Clint Eastwood ( 1992 ) Anthony Hopkins ( 1993 ) John Travolta ( 1994 ) Nicolas Cage ( 1995 ) Geoffrey Rush ( 1996 ) Robert Duvall ( 1997 ) Ian McKellen ( 1998 ) Russell Crowe ( 1999 ) Michael Douglas ( 2000 ) Denzel Washington ( 2001 ) Daniel Day - Lewis / Jack Nicholson ( 2002 ) Bill Murray ( 2003 ) Liam Neeson ( 2004 ) Philip Seymour Hoffman ( 2005 ) Sacha Baron Cohen / Forest Whitaker ( 2006 ) Daniel Day - Lewis ( 2007 ) Sean Penn ( 2008 ) Jeff Bridges ( 2009 ) Colin Firth ( 2010 ) Michael Fassbender ( 2011 ) Joaquin Phoenix ( 2012 ) Bruce Dern ( 2013 ) Tom Hardy ( 2014 ) Michael Fassbender ( 2015 ) Adam Driver ( 2016 ) National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor John Williams ( 1954 ) Charles Bickford ( 1955 ) Richard Basehart ( 1956 ) Sessue Hayakawa ( 1957 ) Albert Salmi ( 1958 ) Hugh Griffith ( 1959 ) George Peppard ( 1960 ) Jackie Gleason ( 1961 ) Burgess Meredith ( 1962 ) Melvyn Douglas ( 1963 ) Martin Balsam ( 1964 ) Harry Andrews ( 1965 ) Robert Shaw ( 1966 ) Paul Ford ( 1967 ) Leo McKern ( 1968 ) Philippe Noiret ( 1969 ) Frank Langella ( 1970 ) Ben Johnson ( 1971 ) Joel Grey / Al Pacino ( 1972 ) John Houseman ( 1973 ) Holger Löwenadler ( 1974 ) Charles Durning ( 1975 ) Jason Robards ( 1976 ) Tom Skerritt ( 1977 ) Richard Farnsworth ( 1978 ) Paul Dooley ( 1979 ) Joe Pesci ( 1980 ) Jack Nicholson ( 1981 ) Robert Preston ( 1982 ) Jack Nicholson ( 1983 ) John Malkovich ( 1984 ) Klaus Maria Brandauer ( 1985 ) Daniel Day - Lewis ( 1986 ) Sean Connery ( 1987 ) River Phoenix ( 1988 ) Alan Alda ( 1989 ) Joe Pesci ( 1990 ) Anthony Hopkins ( 1991 ) Jack Nicholson ( 1992 ) Leonardo DiCaprio ( 1993 ) Gary Sinise ( 1994 ) Kevin Spacey ( 1995 ) Edward Norton ( 1996 ) Greg Kinnear ( 1997 ) Ed Harris ( 1998 ) Philip Seymour Hoffman ( 1999 ) Joaquin Phoenix ( 2000 ) Jim Broadbent ( 2001 ) Chris Cooper ( 2002 ) Alec Baldwin ( 2003 ) Thomas Haden Church ( 2004 ) Jake Gyllenhaal ( 2005 ) Djimon Hounsou ( 2006 ) Casey Affleck ( 2007 ) Josh Brolin ( 2008 ) Woody Harrelson ( 2009 ) Christian Bale ( 2010 ) Christopher Plummer ( 2011 ) Leonardo DiCaprio ( 2012 ) Will Forte ( 2013 ) Edward Norton ( 2014 ) Sylvester Stallone ( 2015 ) Jeff Bridges ( 2016 ) National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor Michael Caine ( 1966 ) Rod Steiger ( 1967 ) Per Oscarsson ( 1968 ) Jon Voight ( 1969 ) George C. 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Question: daniel day lewis oscar there will be blood
Answer: Best Actor