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  • Top 10 Daniel Day-Lewis - 25 August 2010
    -Daniel Day-Lewis may have got a lucky break, landing a bit-part in Richard Attenborough's Gandhi back in 1982. Since then, however, he has really proved his worth, taking on audacious projects and always delivering. He's picked up two Oscars along the way, but we pay our


  • Day-Lewis handed honorary degree - 18 July 2010
    -Daniel Day-Lewis returned to education on Thursday (15Jul10) - he was presented with an honorary degree from a university in England.- -The There Will Be Blood star donned a traditional cap and gown to accept the accolade at an official ceremony at Bristol University.- -


  • Day-Lewis still bitter about early career rejection - 22 December 2009
    -Two-time Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis still holds a grudge against directors who treated him badly earlier in his career.- -The actor is tipped to compete for his third Best Actor Academy Award next year (10) for his critically-acclaimed role in musical Nine.- - But Da

Daniel Day-Lewis - what members say


  • My Beautiful Laundrette
  • My Beautiful Laundrette review by from SHEFFIELD
    Rated - 5.0 stars 27 October 2004
    ...it. It's also a completely unexpected love story, that is profoundly beautiful. Daniel Day-Lewis and Gorden Warnecke are both fantastic as the two leads and have real chemistry...   Read customer review
  • My Left Foot
  • My Left Foot review by A customer from Wiltshire
    Rated - 5.0 stars One of the greatest films of all time 18 May 2006
    ...ceptional performance that will leave you gobsmacked at the sheer brilliance of Daniel Day-Lewis and a delightful performance by 'his mother' Branda Fricker (winning them both ...   Read customer review
  • The Boxer
  • The Boxer review by younglochinvar from North Wales
    Rated - 5.0 stars Knock out! 18 September 2007
    ...A wonderful cast is headed by Daniel Day-Lewis in one of the best films relating to the 'troubles' in Northern Ireland. ...   Read customer review

Daniel Day-Lewis - filmography


  • A Man's Story on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Ozwald Boateng,  Giorgio Armani,  Michael Bay
    Director: Varon Bonicos
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Tailor to Hollywood's A-list, and a superstar in his own right, Ozwald Boateng is a dynamic force of energy, passion and colour. 1998: already celebrated as one of the most talented menswear designers in the world, Ozwald Boateng is about to go bankrupt and divorce his first wife. Through luck and ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 35 members
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  • Nine - Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: Kate Hudson,  Marion Cotillard,  Sophia Loren
    Director: Rob Marshall
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    From the creative team behind the Oscar-winning Broadway adaptation of Chicago comes a lavish feature take on the Tony award-winning musical inspired by Federico Fellini's whimsical classic 8 1/2. Directed by Rob Marshall, Nine details the effort made by world-class filmmaker Guido Contini (Daniel ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 41% from 828 members
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  • Nine on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis,  Marion Cotillard,  Nicole Kidman
    Director: Rob Marshall
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Famous film director Guido Contini struggles to find harmony in his professional and personal lives, as he engages in dramatic relationships with his wife, his mistress, his muse, his agent, and his mother.
    2 stars out of 5 42% from 17,084 members
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  • Gangs Of New York on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio,  Daniel Day-Lewis,  Cameron Diaz
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In 1860's lower Manhattan, the Five Points section is a dark, teeming corner of the city known for vice and chaos. Into this frontier of lawlessness arrives the young Irish American, Amsterdam Vallon. Amsterdam is the orphaned son of the slain Priest Vallon--once chief warrior of the Dead Rabbits ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 44,370 members
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  • The Boxer on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis,  Emily Watson,  Brian Cox
    Director: Jim Sheridan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Jim Sheridan (In the Name of the Father) directed this drama about a Belfast boxer, filmed with Dublin locations substituting for Belfast. Released after his 14-year prison sentence for IRA activities, 32-year-old Danny Flynn (Daniel Day-Lewis) returns to his old neighborhood and sees former-flame ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 1,869 member
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  • The Crucible on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Winona Ryder,  Daniel Day-Lewis,  Paul Scofield
    Director: Nicholas Hytner
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The film adaptation of Arthur Miller's classic, fact-based play, which was a veiled metaphor for the "Red Scare" McCarthy Hearings of the 1950s. Set in 1690s Salem, Massachusetts, the story concerns Abigail (Ryder), a teenager who once had an affair with married farmer John Proctor (Day-Lewis). ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 4,129 members
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  • The Last Of The Mohicans on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis,  Madeline Stowe,  Jodhi May
    Director: Michael Mann
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Cora (Madeleine Stowe) and her younger sister, Alice (Jodhi May), both recent arrivals to the colonies, are being escorted to their father, Colonel Munro (Maurice Roeves), by a troop of British soldiers. Along the way they are ambushed by a Huron war party led by Magua (Wes Studi), a sinister ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 12,933 members
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  • My Left Foot on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis,  Ray McAnally,  Brenda Fricker
    Director: Jim Sheridan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Daniel Day-Lewis delivers a performance for the ages in this film based on DOWN ALL THE DAYS, the autobiography of Christy Brown, who overcame severe physical limitations to become an accomplished painter and writer. The film describes the astounding arc of Brown's life, starting with a childhood ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 11,470 members
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  • Eversmile New Jersey on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis,  Mirjana Jokovic
    Director: Carlos Sorin
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Armed with portable dentists' offices that fit inside motorcycle sidecars, the Eversmile New Jersey company finances the fight against tooth decay. When one of the dentists finds a stowaway in his sidecar, and she turns out to be one great dental assistant, the two hit the road to adventures that ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 111 members
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  • Stars and Bars (1988)
    Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis,  Harry Dean Stanton,  Kent Broadhurst
    Director: Pat O'Connor
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Henderson Dores (Daniel-Day Lewis) is a very proper British art expert sent to rural Georgia by his boss to purchase a painting by Renoir. The present owner, hill-billy Loomis Gage (Harry Dean Stanton), claims he bought the painting for $500 in France in 1946. Dores offers $10 million, but Gage's ..read more »
    1 star out of 5 15% from 2 members
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  • A Room With A View - Blu-ray (1985)
    Starring: Maggie Smith,  ,  
    Director: James Ivory
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    E.M. Forster's 1908 novel, A ROOM WITH A VIEW, is adapted for the screen by director James Ivory in this beautifully lighthearted tale of Edwardian manners. Helena Bonham Carter stars as a young Englishwoman, Lucy Honeychurch. When Lucy and her spinster chaperone, Charlotte Bartlett (Maggie Smith), ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 17 members
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  • A Room With A View on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Maggie Smith,  ,  
    Director: James Ivory
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    E.M. Forster's 1908 novel, A ROOM WITH A VIEW, is adapted for the screen by director James Ivory in this beautifully lighthearted tale of Edwardian manners. Helena Bonham Carter stars as a young Englishwoman, Lucy Honeychurch. When Lucy and her spinster chaperone, Charlotte Bartlett (Maggie Smith), ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 8,595 members
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  • My Beautiful Laundrette on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Saeed Jaffrey,  Roshan Seth,  Daniel Day-Lewis
    Director: Stephen Frears
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE is a highly acclaimed and beautifully rendered portrait of two boyhood friends struggling to survive in racially tense Thatcher-era Britain. Omar, a homosexual Pakistani boy living in London with his alcoholic father, lifts a chunk of drug money from another Pakistani and, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 12,463 members
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  • The Bounty on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Mel Gibson,  Anthony Hopkins,  Edward Fox
    Director: Roger Donaldson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The familiar story of Captain Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to get his men beyond the reach of British retribution, and the epic voyage of Captain Bligh to get his loyalists safely to East Timor in a tiny lifeboat.
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 2,572 members
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  • Artemis '81 on DVD (1981)
    Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis,  Hywel Bennett,  Sting
    Director: Alastair Reid
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Hywel Bennett plays paranormal novelist Gideon Harlax, who is drawn into a battle between the forces of good, represented by alien angel Helith, and the forces of evil, represented by Helith's evil brother Asrael. Ranging from Oxford to Denmark, a North Sea ferry to an alien planet, Harlax ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 41% from 180 members
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Daniel Day-Lewis facts

5 most recent films

A Man's Story - 3.5 stars
Nine - Blu-ray - 2.0 stars
Nine - 2.0 stars
There Will Be Blood - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
There Will Be Blood - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

In The Name Of The Father - 4.0 stars
Alan Bennett At The BBC - 4.0 stars
My Left Foot - 3.5 stars
The Last Of The Mohicans - 3.5 stars
A Room With A View - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Stars and Bars - 1.0 stars
A Room With A View - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
A Man's Story - 3.5 stars
Artemis '81 - 2.0 stars
Nine - Blu-ray - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Liam Neeson - 5 times - show films
Jim Broadbent - 4 times - show films
David Hemmings - 4 times - show films
Judi Dench - 4 times - show films
Henry Thomas - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Stephen Frears - 6 times - show films
Martin Scorsese - 5 times - show films
Richard Eyre - 5 times - show films
John Schlesinger - 5 times - show films
Jim Sheridan - 4 times - show films