Daniel Day Lewis Third Time Oscars Award Set Him On The Part Of History
It was a remarkable night on Sunday 25th February, 2013 for Daniel Day-Lewis who made history as the first person to win Oscars award for the third time. No one has ever won it before, the closest were people who have won it twice but three times nobody until now when Daniel Day Lewis became third time luckiest.
Daniel Day Lewis won the first Oscars award in 1990, about 23 years ago, he won it for “My Left Foot”
The second Oscars Daniel Day Lewis won was in 2007, seventeen years after the first award, which is six years ago, he won it for “There will be blood”.
The third Oscars award for Daniel Day Lewis which set him on the part of history, Day-Lewis was praised for his humorous acceptance prize upon winning for his role in Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln. The awards that help him make history as the only actor that have won Oscars award for three times
The British-born star took home the Best Actor prize for playing the title role of Abraham Lincoln in the biopic Lincoln – making it the third time he has taken home the prestigious award.
Accepting his prize, Day-Lewis, 55, said: ‘I really don’t know how any of this happened. I do know I’ve received much more than my fair share of good fortune in my life.
While Day-Lewis took home the Best Actor prize, Jennifer Lawrence was crowned Best Actress for her role in Silver Linings Playbook, Anne Hathaway won Best Supporting Actress for Les Miserables and Christoph Waltz Supporting Actor for Django Unchained.
Daniel Day Lewis Third Time Oscars Award History Making
Oscar Academic Award 2013 Winners
- Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
- Actress: Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
- Adapted Screenplay: Chris Terrio, Argo
- Animated Feature Film: Brave
- Animated Short Film: Paperman
- Best Picture: Argo
- Cinematography: Life of Pi
- Costume: Anna Karenina
- Directing: Ang Lee, Life of Pi
- Documentary (short subject): Inocente
- Documentary Feature: Searching for Sugar Man
- Film Editing: Argo
- Foreign Language Film: Amour, Austria
- Live Action Short Film: Curfew
- Makeup and Hairstyling: Les Miserables
- Original Score: Life of Pi, Mychael Danna
- Original Screenplay: Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained
- Original Song: Skyfall from Skyfall, Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth
- Production Design: Lincoln
- Sound Editing: Life of Pi, Skyfall (tie)
- Sound Mixing: Les Miserables
- Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained
- Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables
- Visual Effects: Life of Pi
