# The best Daniel Day-Lewis movies

The only actor with three Best Actor Oscars: My Left Foot, There Will Be Blood and Lincoln, plus Gangs of New York and The Last of the Mohicans. His best films according to Ciak Club, Classifiche.cloud and Longtake.

- 1 vote · 13 items
- May 9, 2022 · trattoria_notturno
- https://even.best/en/l/4349/the-best-daniel-day-lewis-movies

## Top 13

1. **My Left Foot (1989)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Jim Sheridan. Painter and writer Christy Brown; his first Oscar.
2. **There Will Be Blood (2007)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Paul Thomas Anderson. Daniel Plainview and oil; his second Oscar.
3. **Lincoln (2012)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Steven Spielberg. The president and the Thirteenth Amendment; his third Oscar.
4. **Gangs of New York (2002)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Martin Scorsese. Bill the Butcher in Five Points.
5. **In the Name of the Father (1993)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Jim Sheridan. Gerry Conlon, wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing.
6. **The Last of the Mohicans (1992)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Michael Mann. Hawkeye in the French and Indian War.
7. **Phantom Thread (2017)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Paul Thomas Anderson. Couturier Reynolds Woodcock; his last film before retiring.
8. **The Age of Innocence (1993)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Martin Scorsese. Nineteenth-century New York, from Edith Wharton.
9. **My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Stephen Frears. A launderette in Thatcher's London.
10. **A Room with a View (1985)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — James Ivory. Lucy's stiff fiancé, from E. M. Forster.
11. **The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Philip Kaufman. Prague in 1968, from Milan Kundera.
12. **The Boxer (1997)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Jim Sheridan. A boxer and former IRA man returns to Belfast.
13. **The Bounty (1984)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Roger Donaldson. Lieutenant John Fryer alongside Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins.

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