Jim Cullen : If Daniel-Day Lewis wins best actor award at the Oscars , it will be a record . His turn as the lead character in the 1992 film version of James Fenimore Cooper 's 1825 novel `` Last of the Mohicans '' has become a classic , while his role as the driven oil prospector Daniel Plainview in `` There Will Be Blood '' won him his second Academy Award for best actor in 2008 . Cullen : I think he's going to win. He says the actor 's version of Lincoln seems like a likable , three-dimensional human being . Cullen : Day-Lewis seems to be telling us that the truest Americans are the restless ones .
Jim Cullen : If Daniel-Day Lewis wins best actor award at the Oscars , it will be a record . Cullen : I think he's going to win. He says the actor 's version of Lincoln seems like a likable , three-dimensional human being . Cullen : Day-Lewis seems to be telling us that the truest Americans are the restless ones .