For which 1989 film did Daniel Day-Lewis win his first Academy Award for Best Actor?
Daniel Day-Lewis when he allows himself to become emotionally involved with a woman. During the eight-month shoot, he learned Czech, and first began to refuse to break character on or off the set for the entire shooting schedule. During this period, Day-Lewis and other young British actors of the time, such as Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tim Roth, and Bruce Payne, were dubbed the "Brit Pack". Day-Lewis progressed his personal version of method acting in 1989 with his performance as Christy Brown in Jim Sheridan's "My Left Foot". It won him numerous awards, including the Academy Award for Best Actor and BAFTA
Daniel Day-Lewis the BAFTA Britannia Award for Excellence in Film. At the 70th Golden Globe Awards, on 14 January 2013, Day-Lewis won his second Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, and at the 66th British Academy Film Awards on 10 February, he won his fourth BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. At the 85th Academy Awards, Day-Lewis became the first three-time recipient of the Best Actor Oscar for his role in "Lincoln". John Hartoch, Day-Lewis' acting teacher at Bristol Old Vic theatre school, said of his former pupil's achievement, Following his historic third Oscar win, there was much debate