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British actor Daniel Day-Lewis has cinema history by up his third Best Actor award at the Academy Awards in Hollywood. He the first actor ever to win three such Oscars. Day-Lewis, 55, was the favourite to the prestigious prize for his stunning portrayal of the USA's 16th president in the biopic “Lincoln”. The actor previously for “My Left Foot” in 1990 and “There Will Be Blood” in 2008. He past eight other men who won two Best Actor Oscars. Day-Lewis with reporters that he had no plans to play another famous person in his next movie, : "I can't think of anyone right now because I need to down for a couple of years. It's really hard to imagine anything after this."

Britain's “Daily Telegraph” newspaper Day-Lewis whether he thought he was now the greatest ever actor because of this third Hollywood accolade. He humbly : "It's daft isn't it? Sean Penn had to go through all this a few years ago. It all the time." Day-Lewis an emotional and humorous acceptance speech in front of a star-studded audience. He tribute both to the president he portrayed, and to his wife Rebecca Miller. He said he was by the, "beautiful mind, body and spirit of Abraham Lincoln" and that his spouse had " with some very strange men" throughout their 16-year marriage, to the different roles he had been for.

 


 
 

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