daniel day lewis won the best actor oscar for there will be blood.
daniel day lewis oscar there will be blood?
best actor
following his third oscar for best actor, there was much debate about day-lewis' standing among the greatest actors in the history of cinema. joe queenan in "the guardian" stated: "arguing whether daniel day-lewis is a greater actor than laurence olivier, or richard burton, or marlon brando, is like arguing whether messi is more talented than pelé, whether napoleon bonaparte edges out alexander the great as a military genius." day-lewis himself when asked what it was like to be "the world's greatest actor", responded "it's daft isn't it? it changes all the time". shortly after winning the oscar for "lincoln", day-lewis announced he would be taking a break from acting, retreating back to his georgian farmhouse in county wicklow, ireland, for the next five years, before making another film.
daniel day-lewis
day-lewis's epitaph, taken from his poem "is it far to go?", reads:





























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"shall i be gone long?"





























"to whom there belong?"





























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day-lewis fathered four children . his first two children, with constance mary king, were sean day-lewis, a tv critic and writer, and nicholas day-lewis, who became an engineer. his children with balcon were tamasin day-lewis, a television chef and food critic, and daniel day-lewis, who became an award-winning actor . sean day-lewis published a biography of his father, "c. day lewis: an english literary life" (1980).





























daniel day-lewis donated his father’s archive to the bodleian library.
cecil day-lewis