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

Britain's “Daily Telegraph” newspaper asked Day-Lewis whether he thought he was now the greatest ever actor because this third Hollywood accolade. He humbly 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 emotional and humorous acceptance speech a star-studded audience. He paid tribute both to the president he portrayed, and to his wife Rebecca Miller. He said he was inspired the, "beautiful mind, body and spirit Abraham Lincoln" and joked that his spouse had "lived some very strange men" throughout their 16-year marriage, referring the different roles he had been practising .