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The best Daniel Day-Lewis movies

The top 3 according to 1 vote: My Left Foot (1989) · There Will Be Blood (2007) · Lincoln (2012). (Updated May 9, 2022.)

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.

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Top 13

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    My Left Foot (1989)

    Jim Sheridan. Painter and writer Christy Brown; his first Oscar.

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    There Will Be Blood (2007)

    Paul Thomas Anderson. Daniel Plainview and oil; his second Oscar.

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    Lincoln (2012)

    Steven Spielberg. The president and the Thirteenth Amendment; his third Oscar.

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    Gangs of New York (2002)

    Martin Scorsese. Bill the Butcher in Five Points.

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    In the Name of the Father (1993)

    Jim Sheridan. Gerry Conlon, wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing.

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    The Last of the Mohicans (1992)

    Michael Mann. Hawkeye in the French and Indian War.

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    Phantom Thread (2017)

    Paul Thomas Anderson. Couturier Reynolds Woodcock; his last film before retiring.

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    The Age of Innocence (1993)

    Martin Scorsese. Nineteenth-century New York, from Edith Wharton.

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    My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)

    Stephen Frears. A launderette in Thatcher's London.

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    A Room with a View (1985)

    James Ivory. Lucy's stiff fiancé, from E. M. Forster.

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    The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)

    Philip Kaufman. Prague in 1968, from Milan Kundera.

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    The Boxer (1997)

    Jim Sheridan. A boxer and former IRA man returns to Belfast.

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    The Bounty (1984)

    Roger Donaldson. Lieutenant John Fryer alongside Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins.

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