It's a real shame that Philip Seymour Hoffman has passed away and DDL is retired. I could've wanted a Paul Thomas Anderson movie starring DDL, Hoffman, and Joaquin Phoenix. Imagine the talent level in that movie
They wouldn't even need a great director to make that one of the best films of all time. Those guys in their prime (early 2010s I'd argue) were untouchable.
Daniel Day Lewis is one of my favourite actors, and the King of Method Acting. His captivating performance in "My Left Foot" brought him widespread recognition, as well as his first Oscar.
The greatest actor in our times. There Will Be Blood is my all time favourite movie, such a shame that it didn't win the Best Picture, losing to No Country for Old Men which is also another masterpiece.
Those two movies coming out the same year was bad luck for There Will Be Blood, in that sense. No Country for Old Men is my favorite movie of this century, FWIW. Most years, TWBB would have had a great shot. (Take a look at some of the very weak Best Pictures in recent years.)
Yeah My Beautiful Laundrette was a bit of a hit in Australia back in the day, lots of word of mouth, and we all went along to see it to quite packed houses, though admittedly in relatively small cinemas. Then we saw him in A Room With a View and were like whaaaat??? That's the same guy??? THEN we saw him in The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and WHAAAAAT???? Same guy????🤣🤣
Daniel Day-Lewis is my favourite actor of all time and my favourite performance of his is definitely his turn in There Will Be Blood. I also think his performance in Martin Scorsese’s The Age of Innocence is really underrated for how subtle it is. Day-Lewis often goes very big for his roles, but The Age of Innocence really captures this great repressed passion to it. Great movie. Super underrated within both Scorsese’s and Day-Lewis’s respective filmographies. It really is a shame that he’s retired, but you know, never say never.
I liked The Age of Innocence but found Ryder to be very distracting. The rule of thumb for Ryder is that she's great playing 20th century roles but flounders in period pieces. She was also weak in Dracula and (ugh) The Crucible. Thankfully Stranger Things is set in the 1980s, which is when she thrives
He is the greatest of all time. Unlike other actors, sometimes while watching multiple roles its like he's not the same person. It's absolutely crazy. Shame he retired, easily could have won 4-5 Oscars and have the all time record.
These are all amazing performances and it's tough for me to rank them. I'll just add that a DDL film that really stayed with me and I think should be discussed more is The Ballad of Jack and Rose.
Excellent video, each one of these performances are bangers and show his full range as an actor. He's way too gifted to never return to acting so I hope those rumors about him returning to film in a Scorsese movie are true. And yes at the My Beautiful Laundrette mention, I love that movie so much! I hope your next ranking is Kate Winslet with 7 nominations!
I think you summed up Gangs of New York perfectly here. I've had the exact same issues with that movie, and I've never really been able to put my finger on why until I heard what you had to say about it here. I agree it's a technical marvel of a movie and DDL is outstanding, but i completely agree that DiCaprio and Diaz feel too modern and nearly take me out of the movie.
@@sharonalbanese8084 Agree. DiCaprio wasn't great, but at least you can justify that casting. Diaz was just awful. And there are so many people who could have done that role credibly.
Great video as usual. It would be great if you do series of whom you think is gonna win first their fourth oscar out of the three that already have three ( meryl, Daniel and frances).
I don't know how true this is because someone told me this years ago, so take it as pure speculation when I say it, but when I was in college about 10 years ago, a guy I knew told me someone he knew was friends with one of DDL's kids and he was invited back to their flat for dinner one night. Of course he was in awe that he got to meet DDL, but he said that he one of the weirdest people he's ever met. Just the way he behaved was very odd. He was never just one person throughout the course of the evening. His voice was never the same and kept changing slightly. And the way he moved didn't seem natural either. He told the guy I knew that it was as if he still carried part of his characters' mannerisms with him. When DDL announced his retirement and I thought about this encounter which, again, may or may not have happened, it didn't surprise me. Working to this degree must really take it's toll on one's psyche.
@@Martin-q3t1y There's another video on this site that goes into the contrast between method acting and traditional theatrical acting. Many people worry about actors like DDL who may get too deeply into the roles they play. Now, I'm not really worried about DDL, but the story you relate sounds credible.
Bro no one had you putting Lincoln at number 1 lol My order 1. My left foot 2. There will be blood 3. Gangs 4. Phantom thread 5. Lincoln 6. In the name of the father
My favourite actor of all time. Has never once given a sub-standard performance and he thoroughly deserves his record breaking 3 Best Actor Oscars. ❤ Great review of his work 👏
There will be blood is also my favorite performance from him. Daniel Day Lewis has got to be up there with the greatest actors of all time. He would be in the tier of Brando, Nicholson, Streep, Leigh, Hepburn, Davis, etc. Btw, I also was pleasantly surprised by My Beautiful Launderette. He looks so young but you can already tell the talent is amazing. Could that have been his supporting performance nomination or is he a co-lead in that film? 🤔
I must have watched There Will Be Blood a dozen times at this point. Daniel Plainview is one of the most mesmerizing characters I have ever seen portrayed on screen and he's pretty much the entire movie...
4. Phantom Thread (as Reynolds Woodcock) 3. In the Name of the Father (as Gerry Conlon) 2. Gangs of New York (as Bill "The Butcher" Cutting) 1. There Will Be Blood (as Daniel Plainview) Yet to see My Left Foot and Lincoln. Also realised I've yet to see him in a performance he wasn't nominated for.
For me personally his performance in "There will be blood" is the best acting performance of all time. It's just unbelievably impressive what he delivered in this film.
The poster? I knew he was going to win an Oscar for "Lincoln" when they announced he'd been cast! I think that Michelle Williams playing Christina McAuliffe, the schoolteacher who died when the space shuttle blew up, will be Oscar catnip as well, if it happens. Haven't heard about that project in a while.
Love Daniel Day Lewis. Check out what may be Lewis' only supporting role, Helena Bonham Carter's fiance in a Room with a View. It is a wonderful comedic performance.
I heard an interesting theory about DDL from someone that I know that works in the industry that has seen DDL behind the scenes in real life. I doubt it is true, but it is a fun concept to imagine could be true. I was told that DDL does "reverse acting". Whenever DDL does interviews or accepts awards and gives a speech, he is always a quiet, introverted type, very gentlemanly, slow in speech manner and deliberate in his words and cadences. Seeing this quiet inward type of man in interviews and giving speeches it blows your mind when you see such wild huge bold performances as There Will Be Blood or Gangs Of New York, leading you to think "Wow this guy is the best actor in the world". The theory I was told is that in real life, DDL is a big bold wild extrovert like most of the characters he plays, and being so big and bold is really not that much of a stretch for him since this is his REAL personality. His acting, therefor, is what you see when he is his "real self", the DDL that does interviews and awards speeches-he is massively toning down his real self so his performances look like masterworks in acting, leading audiences to believe "How can such a such a quiet introverted gentleman stretch so far to play those characters?" Look at his Oscar speech for Lincoln, when he looked almost embarrassed to tell the joke that Meryl Streep was originally cast as Lincoln and he was originally cast as Thatcher and they swapped roles. Theory is, this is not DDL's personality at all; this is his acting. Probably not true, but fun to imagine and think about.
Funny that your leadt favorite oscar nom is my choice for his second oscar after my left food. Love hanks, but day-lewis was in two brillant and each ver different performambces that year, which gives to me the edge!
I was in awe when I left the theatre after Phantom Thread ended, but also very sad because I would never feel that way again since DDL was retiring and that magnetism he brings to his characters would never be seen for the first time again. He truly is one of the best craftman of the industry. He does not JUST act, he creates something special. It reminds me of the wise words Bryan Cranston once said about how he views each audition or each opportunity to act. I suspect DDL feels the same way.
Thank you for this lovely video! Do you personally think that the romantic moments in the beautiful laundrette were geniune,I get a mixed feeling but the whole movie and of course mr. Day Lewis was wonderfull
Completely agree with your review of GANGS OF NEW YORK. The time period is very interesting and the epic scale of the movie is impressive, but the story itself as well as the storytelling just aren't all that engaging. You don't really remember most of the characters or even the point of the story. It's one of those movies that's kind of hard to pin your finger on why it doesn't come together. Day-Lewis's screen presence is the only thing about the film that always stands out.
A deserved Knighthood as well, to go along with his 3 Leading Actor Oscars. He also gave 3 sincere speeches, with touches of humor one might not expect from him. ❤
The way DDL transforms into the characters in every movie of his...from his appearance, voice, tone of his voice, accent, etc. He truly is the greatest actor. Gary Oldman is perhaps the only other actor I can think of who is capable of being to change voice and accent the way DDL does.
The Age of Innocence is one of my favorite films/books of all time despite Daniel's best efforts and whatever Winona Ryder was doing (but it wasn't playing May Welland, that's for damn sure. Can you imagine what Anne Hathaway would've done with the role?). The standout was Michelle Pfeiffer and she didn't even get nominated. That snub is still a maddening headscratcher! My issue with their performances and actors like Meryl and Margot Robbie is they're great at their craft but I always, always see the gears turning in their performances. The effort, the straining, the precision but ultimately the artifice. It feels like Acting, but not in the Bette Davis tradition of reality+ but showing off for an audience of one: themselves. Still, I completely agree about your top pick and that Gangs of New York is a gorgeous mess. And you've convinced me to go ahead and finally check out Phantom Threads. I've been critical but there is no denying Daniel Day Lewis is a Leading Man. He has the looks, the talent, the nominations and the wins. No one can take that away from him, but is he a little overrated??? Great vid!
I can't believe I agree with your #1-3, I had to revisit your #5 though as to how much it resonates to me. It gives me a hard time watching again 1 and 2 though (especially the latter) because of how intense DDL portrays his characters in those.
My favorite actor of all time! (even have a "Daniel Day-Lewis" Section with my movie collection (oddly it's him and Jim Carrey as the only two with their own section). Fantastic post as always. The Butcher may be one of my favorite characters of his...but yeah not the best film of course. ..When you can say with validity "Leonardo DiCaprio is lacking becuase he can't keep up with the lead"...that is probably the ONLY time anyone would ever be able to say that. DDL is the equivalent of Christopher Nolan in the actor category for me.
He is the greatest actor of our century thus far. Launderette is a beautiful film. It is when I fell in love with Lewis. There is nobody else who is at his level , and I doubt that their will be as film shifts to the Netflixization of Hollywood .
I would prefer DDL won for Phantom Thread instead of Gary Oldman. Oldman should have won for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy not Darkest Hour.. DDL was so good in Phantom Thread... And yess for The Beautiful Launderette...I almost forgot how handsome DDL in his younger years ❤
I never stopped thinking of DDL as "the blond guy from My Beautiful Laundrette". Maybe an OTT performance, but imbued with so much heart and charisma. I also liked him in A Room with a View - where he got to play a comedic character instead of a dramatic one for once - and Unbearable Lightness of Being. Did you know he was in Gandhi too? DDL & Keira Knightly stand out to me as 2 White British actors who became famous via British Asian LGBTQ films (My Beautiful Launderette, Bend it Like Beckham). My favorite-best performance of his is his final one, Phantom Thread. That whole movie took me by surprise, and his performance is so lived in and subtle.
My problem with Day Lewis is that after Gangs of New York, he started acting in a way that seems specifically tailored for awards, especially in There Will Be Blood, I can feel that this acting tries to overshadow the film. Maybe this is his strategy to win as many awards as he can, thus the small number of his films compared to others, making people wait for his films to give him special attention.
That's not true. His acting never changed at any point in his career. He used the same method acting technique in every film. Only difference was the parts he was getting were more Hollywood and less independent.
Wait…. Whaaaaaaaaat?? No actir before Day Lewis portrayed Lincoln with such humanity AND was able to get to the actual voice. He deserved that Oscar. You’re seriously saying Bradley Cooper should’ve won that night??? Nope, I disagree. Day Lewis was PHENOMENAL in that role. And he topped himself from There Will Be Blood. Disagree. The Academy had it right And I LOVE The Beautiful Laundrette. And Room with a View
Excellent video, though you give a misleading impression at the end. "My Beautiful Laundrette" is not a gay movie. It's a movie that has two gay characters. As you know, it's about multiculturalism and Thatcher's England. The movie was groundbreaking precisely because it integrated a homosexual relationship into the story rather than making it the story. The clips you have chosen give the opposite impression, unfortunately.
I’ve only seen In the Name of the Father and Phantom Thread. I loved him in the former, as I had never even heard of him before that. His emotions and character progression were so on point I instantly fell in love with him as an actor. I was excited hearing he was in the latter, but I didn’t get into that performance or that movie nearly as much, and I thought it was the weakest Best Picture nominee that year for me personally. There were things I loved about the movie, but I thought the love story didn’t feel very compelling or believable at all, Alma in particular felt like her motivations and feelings toward him just flipped on a dime, and I thought the pacing was agonizingly slow. That said, his poetic dialogue and delivery during the Never Cursed scene was one of my favorite things in any movie that year.
You note that Day-Lewis has only been nominated in the Best Actor category and say that's because he's always been the lead in these films. And I know it doesn't really seem like it, but in Gangs of New York, DiCaprio was technically the lead actor. He got top billing (though that by itself isn't determinative - see, e.g., Marlon Brandon in Superman) and his story was the main story of the movie. But Day-Lewis just stole the movie away from him. I agree with your comments about the casting. For DiCaprio, Gangs might well be his weakest performance. My guess is that his character was supposed to be evolving from cowardice to courage, but I really didn't feel it. He just got lost instead, esp. when matched up against Billy the Butcher. And Diaz, if I may say this, was just wrong. If a Winslet or a Collette had had that role, it could well have been twice as good. Diaz is a terrific comedic/action actress and has more range than people usually give her credit for, but this performance was a complete whiff. But the rest of the supporting cast (John C. Reilly, Brendan Gleeson, Jim Broadbent, etc.) were very good. As for the movies not nominated: back in the '80s when I first saw DDL, it was in A Room with a View and then his breakout role in The Unbearable Lightness of Being. And when i saw those, I heard he'd also done this amazing work in My Beautiful Laundrette. The latter film doesn't get aired often, so though I've seen the first fifteen minutes or so, I have not seen it in full. But, yes, i trust that its nomination-worthy. DDL in Lightness gives a performance that certainly could have gotten Academy notice, had it gotten better backing and a big box office share, but it had a small release and the leads were all relative unknowns at the time. DDL in A Room With a View is utterly unrecognizable. It's certainly an excellent performance, but his role is so small he could not even compete for awards with his View co-star Denholm Elliott (though his acting is at least as good.) Wikipedia tells us that DDL could have played the lead, George Emerson, instead of the minor role of Cecil Vyse, but he took the latter role because it was more challenging. I believe it.
So glad you singled out MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDERETTE as a film he should’ve gotten nominated for. That would’ve been a fantastic nod! I also agree he should’ve won his 3rd for PHANTOM THREAD and not LINCOLN. Phoenix should’ve won for THE MASTER instead
Let's be honest, he should've been supporting for Gangs of NY. He woulda swept as he was far more memorable and superior than either Christopher Walken or Chris Cooper for Catch Me If You Can/ Adaptation respectively. But DDL had way too much prestige that God forbid they campaigned him supporting despite how its not his film, has a whole half hour less wcreentime than Leo, and is the villain of the film.
Think and Manifest. Discussing it in the field of Quantum Physics, Atomic Particles, Wave Theory, Meditation and Spiritual Techniques. th-cam.com/video/C4hsctYMqsA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=3-XR1KgwYuUz3ZXA After watching this video, don't you think Oppenheimer is a bit outdated? And Daniel Day Lewis must be a miracle thinker the way he evolve his roles.
I’m honestly kind of glad Daniel Day-Lewis didn’t get nominated for The Age of Innocence as well as In the Name of the Father, because then one would have to go supporting and that would be Jamie Foxx levels of category fraud.
Fun fact. Studios wanted to make a Doctor Strange movie in the 90's. First choice. Daniel Day Lewis. Just imagine how that film would have turned out. He would be perfect as Stephen Strange. He would definitely not do it but still 🤣
It's a real shame that Philip Seymour Hoffman has passed away and DDL is retired. I could've wanted a Paul Thomas Anderson movie starring DDL, Hoffman, and Joaquin Phoenix. Imagine the talent level in that movie
Too much to handle! But man I want this! 😢
They wouldn't even need a great director to make that one of the best films of all time. Those guys in their prime (early 2010s I'd argue) were untouchable.
That would be the best movie ever made
I miss PSH SO much 😭😭😭
Nominations in just about every category 😀
Thanks for mentioning My Beauriful Launderette. My first exposure the Day-Lewis and still one of my favorite films.
Daniel Day Lewis is one of my favourite actors, and the King of Method Acting. His captivating performance in "My Left Foot" brought him widespread recognition, as well as his first Oscar.
The greatest actor in our times. There Will Be Blood is my all time favourite movie, such a shame that it didn't win the Best Picture, losing to No Country for Old Men which is also another masterpiece.
Those two movies coming out the same year was bad luck for There Will Be Blood, in that sense. No Country for Old Men is my favorite movie of this century, FWIW. Most years, TWBB would have had a great shot. (Take a look at some of the very weak Best Pictures in recent years.)
Yeah My Beautiful Laundrette was a bit of a hit in Australia back in the day, lots of word of mouth, and we all went along to see it to quite packed houses, though admittedly in relatively small cinemas. Then we saw him in A Room With a View and were like whaaaat??? That's the same guy??? THEN we saw him in The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and WHAAAAAT???? Same guy????🤣🤣
He's just so prolific. He completely immerses himself and vanishes behind every characters he plays. What an actor!
Daniel Day-Lewis is my favourite actor of all time and my favourite performance of his is definitely his turn in There Will Be Blood. I also think his performance in Martin Scorsese’s The Age of Innocence is really underrated for how subtle it is. Day-Lewis often goes very big for his roles, but The Age of Innocence really captures this great repressed passion to it. Great movie. Super underrated within both Scorsese’s and Day-Lewis’s respective filmographies.
It really is a shame that he’s retired, but you know, never say never.
I liked The Age of Innocence but found Ryder to be very distracting. The rule of thumb for Ryder is that she's great playing 20th century roles but flounders in period pieces. She was also weak in Dracula and (ugh) The Crucible. Thankfully Stranger Things is set in the 1980s, which is when she thrives
I loved that you ranked Phantom Thread in a very high place, one of his best.
The way DDL use his voice in There Will Be Blood is phenomenal. This is one of my top 10 movie performances of all time.
He is the greatest of all time. Unlike other actors, sometimes while watching multiple roles its like he's not the same person. It's absolutely crazy. Shame he retired, easily could have won 4-5 Oscars and have the all time record.
1. There Will Be Blood
2-6. Shuffle into any order as they are all great. But nothing tops TWBB.
I love love love Phantom Thread. A perfect film and three perfect performances (DDL, Manville, Krieps)
Yes! I agree with My Beautiful Launderette! Loved it back in the day
These are all amazing performances and it's tough for me to rank them. I'll just add that a DDL film that really stayed with me and I think should be discussed more is The Ballad of Jack and Rose.
Phantom thread is so amazing. The long looks with Vicky Krieps without words said is mesmerising. A sign of acting at it's highest.
My Left Foot is one of my favorite movies of all time!
Excellent video, each one of these performances are bangers and show his full range as an actor. He's way too gifted to never return to acting so I hope those rumors about him returning to film in a Scorsese movie are true. And yes at the My Beautiful Laundrette mention, I love that movie so much! I hope your next ranking is Kate Winslet with 7 nominations!
His films is not limited
I think you summed up Gangs of New York perfectly here. I've had the exact same issues with that movie, and I've never really been able to put my finger on why until I heard what you had to say about it here. I agree it's a technical marvel of a movie and DDL is outstanding, but i completely agree that DiCaprio and Diaz feel too modern and nearly take me out of the movie.
Totally agree. I don't know what they were thinking when that put Cameron Diaz in that role. I really like her, but that was a huge casting error.
@@sharonalbanese8084 I agree. She's great, but this wasn't the right role for her.
@@sharonalbanese8084 Agree. DiCaprio wasn't great, but at least you can justify that casting. Diaz was just awful. And there are so many people who could have done that role credibly.
My Rankings
1. There Will Be Blood
2. Lincoln
3. My Left Foot
4. In the Name of the Father
5. Phantom Thread
6. Gangs of New York
Great video as usual. It would be great if you do series of whom you think is gonna win first their fourth oscar out of the three that already have three ( meryl, Daniel and frances).
It's a shame that he left acting after Phantom Thread. He has actually made very few movies.
I don't know how true this is because someone told me this years ago, so take it as pure speculation when I say it, but when I was in college about 10 years ago, a guy I knew told me someone he knew was friends with one of DDL's kids and he was invited back to their flat for dinner one night. Of course he was in awe that he got to meet DDL, but he said that he one of the weirdest people he's ever met. Just the way he behaved was very odd. He was never just one person throughout the course of the evening. His voice was never the same and kept changing slightly. And the way he moved didn't seem natural either. He told the guy I knew that it was as if he still carried part of his characters' mannerisms with him.
When DDL announced his retirement and I thought about this encounter which, again, may or may not have happened, it didn't surprise me. Working to this degree must really take it's toll on one's psyche.
@@Martin-q3t1y There's another video on this site that goes into the contrast between method acting and traditional theatrical acting. Many people worry about actors like DDL who may get too deeply into the roles they play. Now, I'm not really worried about DDL, but the story you relate sounds credible.
Bro no one had you putting Lincoln at number 1 lol
My order
1. My left foot
2. There will be blood
3. Gangs
4. Phantom thread
5. Lincoln
6. In the name of the father
I like that he doesn’t show up for every talkshow
Because he doesn't need the Hollywood BS. But Day-Lewis is a regular guy who trying to suceed.
My favourite actor of all time. Has never once given a sub-standard performance and he thoroughly deserves his record breaking 3 Best Actor Oscars. ❤ Great review of his work 👏
Perfect ranking. Perfect alternate. No notes.
The GOAT!
For me, Daniel Day-Lewis deserves to get his own biopic movie, portrayed by Christian Bale.
There will be blood is also my favorite performance from him. Daniel Day Lewis has got to be up there with the greatest actors of all time. He would be in the tier of Brando, Nicholson, Streep, Leigh, Hepburn, Davis, etc.
Btw, I also was pleasantly surprised by My Beautiful Launderette. He looks so young but you can already tell the talent is amazing. Could that have been his supporting performance nomination or is he a co-lead in that film? 🤔
I must have watched There Will Be Blood a dozen times at this point. Daniel Plainview is one of the most mesmerizing characters I have ever seen portrayed on screen and he's pretty much the entire movie...
4. Phantom Thread (as Reynolds Woodcock)
3. In the Name of the Father (as Gerry Conlon)
2. Gangs of New York (as Bill "The Butcher" Cutting)
1. There Will Be Blood (as Daniel Plainview)
Yet to see My Left Foot and Lincoln. Also realised I've yet to see him in a performance he wasn't nominated for.
For some reason, I think Maestro would've turn out much better if Daniel had played Lenny, and the movie had been directed by Pablo Larrain.
That actually sounds like it would've been amazing!
Pablo Larrain is a horrible director.
For me personally his performance in "There will be blood" is the best acting performance of all time. It's just unbelievably impressive what he delivered in this film.
Whata performance 🔥 In the name of the father ❤💯🔥
The poster? I knew he was going to win an Oscar for "Lincoln" when they announced he'd been cast! I think that Michelle Williams playing Christina McAuliffe, the schoolteacher who died when the space shuttle blew up, will be Oscar catnip as well, if it happens. Haven't heard about that project in a while.
1. My Left Foot
2.Lincoln
3.In The Name of The Father
4.There Will Be Blood
5.Phantom Thread
6.The Gangs of New York
Love Daniel Day Lewis. Check out what may be Lewis' only supporting role, Helena Bonham Carter's fiance in a Room with a View. It is a wonderful comedic performance.
I wish you did a video for the awesome Phillip Seymour Hoffman.
Great video. However, if one is to rank Oscar nominations, it seems necessary to view the films again for better clarity.
I heard an interesting theory about DDL from someone that I know that works in the industry that has seen DDL behind the scenes in real life. I doubt it is true, but it is a fun concept to imagine could be true.
I was told that DDL does "reverse acting". Whenever DDL does interviews or accepts awards and gives a speech, he is always a quiet, introverted type, very gentlemanly, slow in speech manner and deliberate in his words and cadences. Seeing this quiet inward type of man in interviews and giving speeches it blows your mind when you see such wild huge bold performances as There Will Be Blood or Gangs Of New York, leading you to think "Wow this guy is the best actor in the world". The theory I was told is that in real life, DDL is a big bold wild extrovert like most of the characters he plays, and being so big and bold is really not that much of a stretch for him since this is his REAL personality. His acting, therefor, is what you see when he is his "real self", the DDL that does interviews and awards speeches-he is massively toning down his real self so his performances look like masterworks in acting, leading audiences to believe "How can such a such a quiet introverted gentleman stretch so far to play those characters?" Look at his Oscar speech for Lincoln, when he looked almost embarrassed to tell the joke that Meryl Streep was originally cast as Lincoln and he was originally cast as Thatcher and they swapped roles. Theory is, this is not DDL's personality at all; this is his acting.
Probably not true, but fun to imagine and think about.
AS A FELLOW GAY I WAS WAITING FOR YOU TO MENTION MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDERETTE LOL!!!!
Funny that your leadt favorite oscar nom is my choice for his second oscar after my left food. Love hanks, but day-lewis was in two brillant and each ver different performambces that year, which gives to me the edge!
I was in awe when I left the theatre after Phantom Thread ended, but also very sad because I would never feel that way again since DDL was retiring and that magnetism he brings to his characters would never be seen for the first time again. He truly is one of the best craftman of the industry. He does not JUST act, he creates something special. It reminds me of the wise words Bryan Cranston once said about how he views each audition or each opportunity to act. I suspect DDL feels the same way.
Thank you for this lovely video! Do you personally think that the romantic moments in the beautiful laundrette were geniune,I get a mixed feeling but the whole movie and of course mr. Day Lewis was wonderfull
Seeing Meryl Streep on stage with DDL was epic. Would've loved to see the two of them in a movie together!!
Completely agree with your review of GANGS OF NEW YORK. The time period is very interesting and the epic scale of the movie is impressive, but the story itself as well as the storytelling just aren't all that engaging. You don't really remember most of the characters or even the point of the story. It's one of those movies that's kind of hard to pin your finger on why it doesn't come together. Day-Lewis's screen presence is the only thing about the film that always stands out.
Day-Lewis made Gangs Of New York
Awesomeness!! 👊😊✊
Fantastic Oscar winning Actor! 👍😎👍♈🍁♈
revisit in the name of the father. its a complete performance
A deserved Knighthood as well, to go along with his 3 Leading Actor Oscars. He also gave 3 sincere speeches, with touches of humor one might not expect from him. ❤
The way DDL transforms into the characters in every movie of his...from his appearance, voice, tone of his voice, accent, etc. He truly is the greatest actor. Gary Oldman is perhaps the only other actor I can think of who is capable of being to change voice and accent the way DDL does.
The best actor next to Marlon Brando
The Age of Innocence is one of my favorite films/books of all time despite Daniel's best efforts and whatever Winona Ryder was doing (but it wasn't playing May Welland, that's for damn sure. Can you imagine what Anne Hathaway would've done with the role?). The standout was Michelle Pfeiffer and she didn't even get nominated. That snub is still a maddening headscratcher! My issue with their performances and actors like Meryl and Margot Robbie is they're great at their craft but I always, always see the gears turning in their performances. The effort, the straining, the precision but ultimately the artifice. It feels like Acting, but not in the Bette Davis tradition of reality+ but showing off for an audience of one: themselves. Still, I completely agree about your top pick and that Gangs of New York is a gorgeous mess. And you've convinced me to go ahead and finally check out Phantom Threads. I've been critical but there is no denying Daniel Day Lewis is a Leading Man. He has the looks, the talent, the nominations and the wins. No one can take that away from him, but is he a little overrated??? Great vid!
I can't believe I agree with your #1-3, I had to revisit your #5 though as to how much it resonates to me. It gives me a hard time watching again 1 and 2 though (especially the latter) because of how intense DDL portrays his characters in those.
Please Rank the nominations of Bette Davis and Katharine Hepburn
Agreed, would love that!
I Hope The Lion in Winter gets in the top 2 if Brian does do a Katherine Hepburn video.
Guess at performance not nominated: Last of the Mohicans
A rare talent (though he was miscast in Nine).
"The Boxer" is a fantastic film. Both Daniel Day-Lewis and Emily Watson deserved more acclaim for their performances.
My favorite actor of all time! (even have a "Daniel Day-Lewis" Section with my movie collection (oddly it's him and Jim Carrey as the only two with their own section). Fantastic post as always. The Butcher may be one of my favorite characters of his...but yeah not the best film of course. ..When you can say with validity "Leonardo DiCaprio is lacking becuase he can't keep up with the lead"...that is probably the ONLY time anyone would ever be able to say that. DDL is the equivalent of Christopher Nolan in the actor category for me.
He is the greatest actor of our century thus far. Launderette is a beautiful film. It is when I fell in love with Lewis. There is nobody else who is at his level , and I doubt that their will be as film shifts to the Netflixization of Hollywood .
I would prefer DDL won for Phantom Thread instead of Gary Oldman. Oldman should have won for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy not Darkest Hour..
DDL was so good in Phantom Thread...
And yess for The Beautiful Launderette...I almost forgot how handsome DDL in his younger years ❤
Do Cate Blanchett Oscar ranking
Daniel Day Lewis is a brilliant actor and a legend! Please do one on Tom Hanks.
I love Gangs of New York. One of my very favorite Scorsese films. 🤷🏻♂️
I think his performance in ITNOTF is one of his best, at least top 3
Jessica Lange please!
I just think that in a different universe or timeline Daniel Day Lewis acts in a MCU movie and I cannot stop thinking about about it
He'd have been my choice to Play The Beyonder.
well of course - my beautiful launderette
Should DDL have been supporting actor in Gangs of New York? Leo was the lead. He was incredible.
DDL in There Will Be Blood is the single best performance in cinema history.
I never stopped thinking of DDL as "the blond guy from My Beautiful Laundrette". Maybe an OTT performance, but imbued with so much heart and charisma. I also liked him in A Room with a View - where he got to play a comedic character instead of a dramatic one for once - and Unbearable Lightness of Being. Did you know he was in Gandhi too?
DDL & Keira Knightly stand out to me as 2 White British actors who became famous via British Asian LGBTQ films (My Beautiful Launderette, Bend it Like Beckham).
My favorite-best performance of his is his final one, Phantom Thread. That whole movie took me by surprise, and his performance is so lived in and subtle.
Omg I adore ULOB, and him in it.
Can you please do next:
Anthony Hopkins
Tom Hanks
Dustin Hoffman
Robin Williams
And Joaquin Phoenix?
My problem with Day Lewis is that after Gangs of New York, he started acting in a way that seems specifically tailored for awards, especially in There Will Be Blood, I can feel that this acting tries to overshadow the film.
Maybe this is his strategy to win as many awards as he can, thus the small number of his films compared to others, making people wait for his films to give him special attention.
That's not true. His acting never changed at any point in his career. He used the same method acting technique in every film. Only difference was the parts he was getting were more Hollywood and less independent.
Daniel Plainview is one of the scariest and funniest performance by any actor in history
Danyell day lewis
Wait…. Whaaaaaaaaat?? No actir before Day Lewis portrayed Lincoln with such humanity AND was able to get to the actual voice. He deserved that Oscar. You’re seriously saying Bradley Cooper should’ve won that night??? Nope, I disagree. Day Lewis was PHENOMENAL in that role. And he topped himself from There Will Be Blood. Disagree. The Academy had it right
And I LOVE The Beautiful Laundrette. And Room with a View
Loved him in Lincoln. Loved him in There will be blood but to me he as a little too much at times
Isn’t ddl coming back for scorseses next project
I just knew Brian would mention "My Beautiful Laundrette". Not a great performance but a very sexy one.
It was great and sexy. Gosh he is so gorgeous.
He should have won for Phantom Thread
Gotta do Jack no my friend haha
Cecil Vyse 😍🤣
Excellent video, though you give a misleading impression at the end. "My Beautiful Laundrette" is not a gay movie. It's a movie that has two gay characters. As you know, it's about multiculturalism and Thatcher's England. The movie was groundbreaking precisely because it integrated a homosexual relationship into the story rather than making it the story. The clips you have chosen give the opposite impression, unfortunately.
I’ve only seen In the Name of the Father and Phantom Thread. I loved him in the former, as I had never even heard of him before that. His emotions and character progression were so on point I instantly fell in love with him as an actor. I was excited hearing he was in the latter, but I didn’t get into that performance or that movie nearly as much, and I thought it was the weakest Best Picture nominee that year for me personally. There were things I loved about the movie, but I thought the love story didn’t feel very compelling or believable at all, Alma in particular felt like her motivations and feelings toward him just flipped on a dime, and I thought the pacing was agonizingly slow. That said, his poetic dialogue and delivery during the Never Cursed scene was one of my favorite things in any movie that year.
Daniel Day Lewis can play Cinderella's Stepmother and wins an Oscar 😂
Nobody taught you were ranking Lincoln in the top 3
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IMO he was Supporting in Gangs of New York and they frauded him to Lead. That was DiCaprio's movie.
1. Gangs of new york.
You note that Day-Lewis has only been nominated in the Best Actor category and say that's because he's always been the lead in these films. And I know it doesn't really seem like it, but in Gangs of New York, DiCaprio was technically the lead actor. He got top billing (though that by itself isn't determinative - see, e.g., Marlon Brandon in Superman) and his story was the main story of the movie.
But Day-Lewis just stole the movie away from him.
I agree with your comments about the casting. For DiCaprio, Gangs might well be his weakest performance. My guess is that his character was supposed to be evolving from cowardice to courage, but I really didn't feel it. He just got lost instead, esp. when matched up against Billy the Butcher. And Diaz, if I may say this, was just wrong. If a Winslet or a Collette had had that role, it could well have been twice as good. Diaz is a terrific comedic/action actress and has more range than people usually give her credit for, but this performance was a complete whiff.
But the rest of the supporting cast (John C. Reilly, Brendan Gleeson, Jim Broadbent, etc.) were very good.
As for the movies not nominated: back in the '80s when I first saw DDL, it was in A Room with a View and then his breakout role in The Unbearable Lightness of Being. And when i saw those, I heard he'd also done this amazing work in My Beautiful Laundrette. The latter film doesn't get aired often, so though I've seen the first fifteen minutes or so, I have not seen it in full. But, yes, i trust that its nomination-worthy.
DDL in Lightness gives a performance that certainly could have gotten Academy notice, had it gotten better backing and a big box office share, but it had a small release and the leads were all relative unknowns at the time.
DDL in A Room With a View is utterly unrecognizable. It's certainly an excellent performance, but his role is so small he could not even compete for awards with his View co-star Denholm Elliott (though his acting is at least as good.) Wikipedia tells us that DDL could have played the lead, George Emerson, instead of the minor role of Cecil Vyse, but he took the latter role because it was more challenging. I believe it.
Ddl is even great in nine
So glad you singled out MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDERETTE as a film he should’ve gotten nominated for. That would’ve been a fantastic nod!
I also agree he should’ve won his 3rd for PHANTOM THREAD and not LINCOLN.
Phoenix should’ve won for THE MASTER instead
Actors have little chance of winning if the fantastic D.D.Lewis is on the ballad. The same with Meryl Streep.
He is the male version of Katharine Hepburn.
He undeservedly won the 2012, Phoenix and Jackman were better that year.
If anyone besides Gary Oldman won Best Actor that year I would actually become the Joker
Let's be honest, he should've been supporting for Gangs of NY. He woulda swept as he was far more memorable and superior than either Christopher Walken or Chris Cooper for Catch Me If You Can/ Adaptation respectively. But DDL had way too much prestige that God forbid they campaigned him supporting despite how its not his film, has a whole half hour less wcreentime than Leo, and is the villain of the film.
Think and Manifest.
Discussing it in the field of Quantum Physics, Atomic Particles, Wave Theory, Meditation and Spiritual Techniques.
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After watching this video, don't you think Oppenheimer is a bit outdated?
And Daniel Day Lewis must be a miracle thinker the way he evolve his roles.
In the name of the father is based on the Guildford four, terrible case of prejudice from the English government
I agree on Gangs of New York, that movie sucks story-wise, the worst I've seen from of Scorsese.
I’m honestly kind of glad Daniel Day-Lewis didn’t get nominated for The Age of Innocence as well as In the Name of the Father, because then one would have to go supporting and that would be Jamie Foxx levels of category fraud.
Fun fact. Studios wanted to make a Doctor Strange movie in the 90's. First choice. Daniel Day Lewis. Just imagine how that film would have turned out. He would be perfect as Stephen Strange. He would definitely not do it but still 🤣