Daniel Day-Lewis (1957)
90.2 TOPICAL actor score · #30 of 1,977 actors
Daniel Day-Lewis (1957) has a TOPICAL actor score of 90.2 - one of the 100 best actors of all time by TOPICAL's score. Their strongest parts are their movies and career standing. They've won 4 acting honours from 5 nominations, including the Academy Award for Best Actor. Their best ten-year run was 1985-1994. Best films: There Will Be Blood (2007), My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1979), In the Name of the Father (1993).
Why this score
Each bar: better than this % of the 1,977 actors we rank. How the score works.
Acting honours93
Prime93
Their movies100
Credits8
Career standing98
- Acting honours4 wins, 5 nominations - incl. Academy Award for Best Actor; BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role; Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
- Prime1985-1994
- Credits25 films and shows · billed in the top 8 of 13 scored films (12 as a lead)
- Known inWikipedia articles in 102 languages
“Widely considered one of the greatest actors in the history of cinema, he is best known for intense method acting portrayed with eccentric characters in auteurs' films.”
Wikipedia · read the article - AI legacy read: 10/10
Daniel Day-Lewis's scored films
| TOPICAL rank | Film | Year | Billed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 64 | There Will Be Blood | 2007 | 1 |
| 254 | In the Name of the Father | 1993 | 1 |
| 313 | My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown | 1979 | 1 |
| 391 | Lincoln | 2012 | 1 |
| 392 | Phantom Thread | 2017 | 1 |
| 510 | A Room with a View | 1986 | 5 |
| 540 | Gangs of New York | 2002 | 2 |
| 577 | The Age of Innocence | 1993 | 1 |
| 991 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | 1988 | 1 |
| 1,389 | The Last of the Mohicans | 1992 | 1 |
| 2,095 | The Crucible | 1996 | 1 |
| 2,197 | My Beautiful Laundrette | 1985 | 2 |
| 3,957 | Nine | 2009 | 1 |