Background:

Oscar-winning actor Daniel Day-Lewis gained acclaimed for his outstanding portrayal of Bill 'The Butcher' Cutting in Martin Scorsese’s crime film Gangs of New York (2002). He won several awards, including a Vancouver Film Critics Circle, a Screen Actors Guild, a Broadcast Film Critics Association award, a Las Vegas Film Critics Society award, a BAFTA, a Florida Film Critics Circle, as well as a Kansas City Film Critics Circle award. One of the most engaging leading men of his generation, Day-Lewis received even more recognition after playing the starring role of cerebral palsy-stricken writer and artist Christy Brown in Jim Sheridan’s drama film My Left Foot (1989), in which he took home a prestigious Academy Award in 1990. Additionally, his spect ..[Full version]