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

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

 


 
 

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