TopTenREVIEWS presents the film career and movie reviews of Daniel Day-Lewis.
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Actor Facts
Birth:
April 29, 1957
Biography:
Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis was born in London, England, the second child of Cecil Day-Lewis (Poet Laureate of England) and his second wife, Jill Balcon. His maternal grandfather was Sir Michael Balcon, an important figure in the history of British cinema, head of the famous Ealing Studios. ...more about Daniel Day-Lewis
Daniel Day-Lewis
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1980s
2.5066
4
1990s
3.2156
5
2000s
2.7299
4
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards for each movie.
Overall Actor Score: 
3.1880
3.1880Daniel Day-Lewis Movie Rankings
1
3.3488A sprawling epic about family, greed, corruption, and the pursuit of the American dream. ...more about There Will Be Blood
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
- Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - Best Actor
- BAFTA Awards - Best Leading Actor
- Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actor
- Central Ohio Film Critics Association - Best Actor
- Chicago Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actor
- Chlotrudis Awards - Best Actor
- Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actor
- Evening Standard British Film Awards - Best Actor
- Florida Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
- Not Available on DVD
2
3.0304Newland Archer is drawn to his fiancé’s cousin, Countess Ellen Olenska and her unconventional disregard for New York society life. However, honor and ethics outweighs passion, until years later he accidentally meets the Countess on the street and he can no longer deny his love for her. ...more about Age of Innocence
- DVD Best Pricing:
Amazon
3
3.0255Christy Brown is a spastic quadriplegic born to a large, poor Irish family. His mother, Mrs Brown, recognizes the intelligence and humanity in the lad everyone else regards as a vegetable. ...more about My Left Foot
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- BAFTA Awards - Best Actor
- European Film Awards - Best Actor
- Evening Standard British Film Awards - Best Actor
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
- Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actor
- National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA - Best Actor
- New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor
- DVD Best Pricing:
DVDEmpire
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4
3.0065As waves of immigrants swell the population of New York, lawlessness and corruption thrive in Manhattan's Five Points section. ...more about Gangs of New York
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- BAFTA Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
- Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actor
- Central Ohio Film Critics Association - Best Actor
- Chicago Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actor
- Empire Awards, UK - Best Actor
- Florida Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
- Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor
- Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards - Best Actor
- Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actor
- New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor
- Online Film Critics Society Awards - Best Actor
- Russian Guild of Film Critics - Best Foreign Actor
- San Diego Film Critics Society Awards - Best Actor
- Satellite Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama
- Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
- Seattle Film Critics Awards - Best Actor
- Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actor
- Vancouver Film Critics Circle - Best Actor
- DVD Best Pricing:
Overstock.com
5
2.9841During the French and Indian War an adopted Mohawk and independent agent, promises to escort two young English women to their father, a Gen. of the British army. Along the way the Mohican falls in love with one of the women. When they arrive, a French militia besieges the English fort. ...more about Last of the Mohicans
Actor Awards
- BAFTA Awards - Best Actor
- Evening Standard British Film Awards - Best Actor
- London Critics Circle Film Awards - British Actor of the Year
- DVD Best Pricing:
Wal Mart
6
2.9760Tomas is a doctor and a lady-killer in 1960s Czechoslovakia, an apolitical man who is struck with love for the bookish country girl Tereza; his more sophisticated sometime lover Sabina eventually accepts their relationship and the two women form an ...more about Unbearable Lightness of Being
- DVD Best Pricing:
Wal Mart
7
2.9604The movie is centered around the Salem Massachusetts witch trials of 1692. The movie is based on the play "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller. He also wrote the screen play adaptation. ...more about Crucible
- DVD Best Pricing:
Overstock.com
8
2.9365Falsely accused of an IRA bombing in London, Gerry Conlon, his father and several associates are forced to confess and imprisoned. For 14 years, they struggle to prove their innocence. ...more about In the Name of the Father
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- BAFTA Awards - Best Actor
- Boston Society of Film Critics Awards - Best Actor
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
- DVD Best Pricing:
Wal Mart
9
2.9236Danny Flynn is released from prison in Belfast after fourteen years for his part in IRA activities. He determines to avoid the bloodshed that was inherent in his political past and to build a new life in his old home. ...more about Boxer
Actor Awards
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
10
2.7981The familiar story of Captain Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. ...more about Bounty
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
11
2.6718Jack (Daniel Day-Lewis) lives on the site of his abandoned island commune with his 16-year-old daughter Rose (Camilla Belle). ...more about Ballad of Jack and Rose
- DVD Best Pricing:
Overstock.com
12
Abby Singer chronicles a schizophrenic casting director, Curtis Clemens, hell-bent on ending his life in the aftermath of losing the love of a girl to the seething underbelly of the Sundance Film Festival. ...more about Abby Singer
- Not Available on DVD
13
Traveling dentist O'Connell traverses South America on his motorcycle for the 'Eversmile' foundation of New Jersey, in a fight not only against caries, but also against fear, ignorance, indifference - and established antediluvian dentists. ...more about Eversmile
- Not Available on DVD
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