Kathleen Kennedy talks Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln By Ben Arnold | Movie Editor's Blog – 6 hours ago (Yahoo)

New Lucasfilm boss Kathleen Kennedy has lifted the lid on Daniel Day-Lewis's work on the set of 'Lincoln', which she produced with Steven Spielberg.

Day-Lewis, known for his full immersion into character while on set, had an intimidating command of the material, despite the size of his role in the film, in which he plays the revered US president.

Day-Lewis... as 'the president' Abraham Lincoln (Copyright: Rex)

“Certainly the minute you heard on the radio, ‘The president is coming to the set,’ which is what we would hear, and Daniel would walk onto the set, you could hear a pin drop,” she told the New York Times.

“And that was really the way every single day went.”

She then went on to talk about the effect his work had on the other members of the cast.

“He had 45 pages of dialogue in the first two weeks of shooting, and he never missed a word,” she continued.

“I mean, it was the other actors that were interesting to watch because once he came in and did a four-minute dialogue scene and didn’t miss, everybody looked like deer in the headlights.


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BAFTA Award Nominees attend High Tea in Los Angeles

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Golden Globes: Former President Bill Clinton presents LINCOLN

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Video - Academy Award Nominations Announcement

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'Lincoln' tops Oscar nominations By Todd Leopold, CNN

(CNN) -- "Lincoln," director Steven Spielberg's film about the 16th president and his battle to end slavery, topped the nominations for the 85th Academy Awards on Thursday, receiving 12 nods, including best picture.

Along with Spielberg, who picked up a best director nomination, the film earned picks for best actor (Daniel Day-Lewis), best supporting actress (Sally Field), best supporting actor (Tommy Lee Jones) and best adapted screenplay (Tony Kushner).

"Life of Pi" was second with 11 nominations, including best picture, best director (Ang Lee) and best adapted screenplay.

As always, there were a handful of surprises. The most notable, perhaps, was the showing by the small independent film "Beasts of the Southern Wild." Its 9-year-old star, Quvenzhane Wallis, earned a nomination for best actress, becoming the youngest person ever in that category. In addition, the film was nominated for best picture, best director (Benh Zeitlin) and best adapted screenplay -- four nominations in all.


Along with "Lincoln," "Pi," "Beasts" and "Amour," the other best picture nominees are "Argo," "Django Unchained," "Zero Dark Thirty," "Silver Linings Playbook" and "Les Miserables."

The nominees for best actor are Day-Lewis ("Lincoln"), Hugh Jackman ("Les Miserables"), Denzel Washington ("Flight"), Joaquin Phoenix ("The Master") and Bradley Cooper ("Silver Linings Playbook").

The nominees for best actress are Wallis ("Beasts of the Southern Wild"), Jessica Chastain ("Zero Dark Thirty"), Jennifer Lawrence ("Silver Linings Playbook"), Naomi Watts ("The Impossible") and Emmanuelle Riva ("Amour").

The nominees for best supporting actor are Jones ("Lincoln"), Robert De Niro ("Silver Linings Playbook"), Philip Seymour Hoffman ("The Master"), Alan Arkin ("Argo") and Christoph Waltz ("Django Unchained").

The nominees for best supporting actress are Field ("Lincoln"), Amy Adams ("The Master"), Anne Hathaway ("Les Miserables"), Helen Hunt ("The Sessions") and Jacki Weaver ("Silver Linings Playbook").

The nominees for best director are Spielberg ("Lincoln"), Zeitlin ("Beasts of the Southern Wild"), David O. Russell ("Silver Linings Playbook"), Lee ("Life of Pi") and Haneke ("Amour").

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Baftas: Lincoln leads but Spielberg snubbed (BBC NEWS)

US civil war drama, Lincoln has led this year's Baftas with 10 nominations including best film and best actor for Daniel Day-Lewis.

Day-Lewis's co-stars Tommy Lee Jones and Sally Field have been shortlisted for best supporting actor and actress.

However, the film's award-winning director Steven Spielberg missed out in the best director category.

Musical adaptation Les Miserables and Ang Lee's Life of Pi have both received nine nominations.

Speaking to the BBC's Lizo Mzimba at the announcement, film critic Mark Kermode said: "As far as Lincoln was concerned, all the attention was on Daniel Day-Lewis.

"Whatever anybody thinks about the film - and the critics have been somewhat divided, everybody thought his performance was captivating and completely believable."


Best of British
Following closely behind the leaders pack was Bond film Skyfall with eight nominations, including best British film and best supporting actor and actress for Javier Bardem and Judi Dench.

It will battle it out with four other titles to be named outstanding British film at the awards ceremony on 10 February.

They were The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Anna Karenina, Les Miserables, and Seven Psychopaths.

The nominations were announced by Alice Eve and Jeremy Irvine at the The British Academy of Film and Television Arts headquarters in London on Wednesday.

Anne Hathaway and Hugh Jackman have been recognized in the lead actor and supporting actress categories in Tom Hooper's big-screen adaptation of Les Miserables.


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Daniel Day-Lewis Wins New York Film Critics Awards Follow us: @rollingstone on Twitter | RollingStone on Facebook

Daniel Day-Lewis and director Steven Spielberg arrive at the 'Lincoln' premiere during AFI Fest 2012 presented by Audi at Grauman's Chinese Theatre on November 8, 2012 in Hollywood, California.

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Awards season kicked off last night with the New York Film Critics Circle handing Best Picture to Zero Dark Thirty and Best Actor to Daniel Day-Lewis for his turn in Lincoln, The Los Angeles Times reports. Day-Lewis' co-star Sally Field was also recognized for her performance as Mary Todd Lincoln, as was Tony Kushner for penning the the Steven Spielberg-directed biopic.

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Daniel Day-Lewis discusses ‘Lincoln’ in a crowded theater with Spielberg, O’Reilly and Oprah By Dylan Stableford, Yahoo! News | The Lookout – 22 hrs ago

Time editor Rick Stengel, Daniel Day-Lewis and Steven Spielberg (Yahoo/Dylan Stableford)

In person, Daniel Day-Lewis looks almost nothing like Abraham Lincoln. (He looks something like an English soccer player.) On screen, though, Daniel Day-Lewis looks--and possibly sounds--almost exactly like Abraham Lincoln.

"It's lucky for me that no one can say positively what he sounded like," said Day-Lewis on Thursday in New York, following Time magazine's packed VIP screening of Steven Spielberg's Oscar-baiting "Lincoln" biopic.

The 55-year-old London-born actor said he spent a year trying to get into the 16th president's head.
"If you approach Lincoln head on, it's like a child in front of a monument," Day-Lewis said. "You have to come at him from an angle—behind his left shoulder."

"I try not to dismember a character--a life--into its component parts," he continued. "Because the voice is such a deep personal reflection of character, I leave it alone. If I'm very lucky I begin to hear a voice--not supernatural--but it's a powerful moment. Thank God it did happen in this case. I began to hear a voice as I drew closer to the man." (While filming, Day-Lewis would even send text messages as Lincoln to Sally Field, who played Lincoln's wife, Mary Todd.)

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Daniel Day-Lewis: Trailer for LINCOLN

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Daniel Day-Lewis - Teaser trailer for LINCON

Can Daniel Day-Lewis Break The Spielberg Acting Awards Oscar Losing Streak For 'Lincoln?' AWARDS BY OLIVER LYTTELTON AUGUST 24, 2012 12:22 PM (PLAYLIST)

With festival season getting underway in only a few short days, we're about to see which actors will gain traction for the awards season ahead of us. But there's at least one major performance that we won't know about for a few months yet (or until we see a trailer), and it's one that's probably been the presumptive front-runner ever since the film was announced: Daniel Day-Lewis in Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln," the director's biopic of Civil War-winning President Abraham Lincoln, focusing on the last few months of his life before his assassination at the hands of John Wilkes Booth.

After all, it's one of the most lauded actors of modern times, who last won in 2007 for "There Will Be Blood," in the kind of transformative historical figure role that always pays dividends with Academy voters, and working for the first time with America's most beloved filmmaker, a two-time Best Director winner. Once Day-Lewis came on board, many assumed that they might as well start carving his name on the statue. But will that really be the case? Looking at history a little more closely, it becomes clear not only that Spielberg's not necessarily the Oscar favorite that he's made out to be, but also that a win for Day-Lewis would be unprecedented on a number of levels. So before people decide that it's already sewn up based on a poster that debuted this week, let's look at the stats. It's certainly true that Spielberg's films have been frequent visitors to the Academy. Twelve of his movies have been nominated for four or more awards, and three got more than ten.

But when he picked up Best Director for the second time, for "Saving Private Ryan," the film lost Best Picture to "Shakespeare In Love." And perhaps even more importantly, no Spielberg film has won an Oscar since. "Munich" got five nominations, including Best Picture, Director and Screenplay, and "War Horse" got six, including Picture (but not director). But it's fifteen years since a film by the director actually picked up an Oscar. And perhaps more importantly, no actor or actress has ever won an Oscar for a performance in a Spielberg film.

There have been plenty of nominations: Melinda Dillon for "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind"; Whoopi Goldberg, Margaret Avery and Oprah Winfrey for "The Color Purple"; Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes for "Schindler's List"; Anthony Hopkins for "Amistad"; Tom Hanks for "Saving Private Ryan" and Christopher Walken for "Catch Me If You Can." But none actually converted it for a win, and maybe it's because there were more deserving winners, or maybe it's because Academy voters have never quite shaken the view that Spielberg is a master technician first and foremost. But it's a fairly bleak precedent for Day-Lewis, as well as Sally Field, David Strathairn and Tommy Lee Jones, who are said to be the supporting players to keep an eye on, as Mary Todd Lincoln, William Seward and Thaddeus Grant respectively.

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Daniel Day-Lewis Looks Iconic In First Poster For LINCOLN BRANDON MARCUS AUGUST 22, 2012 0 (THE MOVIE BLOG)

Steven Spielberg’s LINCOLN is an easy sell. It’s directed by Spielberg, starring Daniel Day-Lewis and loads of great actors and is all about the 16th President’s final months in office. It’s like a dream project come true.

The film, which opens in November, has only given us one official movie still. But now we have a poster to go along with it. The poster doesn’t show much because it doesn’t have to. Instead, it just gives us a profile shot of Day-Lewis as Lincoln, Spielberg’s name and, well, that’s it. Still, I couldn’t be more excited for this thing.

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Daniel Day-Lewis called ‘Mr. President’ on Spielberg’s ‘Lincoln’ set By Meriah Doty | Movie Talk – 18 hours ago

Cast members -- including Sally Field, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Tommy Lee Jones -- and Spielberg himself addressed Day-Lewis as his character during the making of the film, which is based on the final four months of President Abraham Lincoln's life.

"I was calling [all] the actors by their character names... That was something I felt was important to establish a little authenticity, maybe even more for me than for them," Spielberg said [via EW.com].


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Daniel Day Lewis: Spielberg’s Lincoln hits theaters November 9 Posted on July 23, 2012 - 16:19 by David Konow (TG)

Abraham Lincoln already graced our nation’s screens this summer in the fictional form of Vampire Hunter. 



Unfortunately, the film didn’t take off at the box office in spite of the success of the book. However, a new, more serious look at the former president is slated to hit movie theaters this November, courtesy of Steven Spielberg. 




According to MTV, Lincoln will have an exclusive release on the 9th, and then receive a wide release November 16.

Daniel-Day Lewis is playing Lincoln, which is reasons 1, 2, and 3 I’m dying to see this movie. Also one of the most brilliant writers alive, Tony Kushner (Angels in America), penned the screenplay.

Along with Day-Lewis, the film also stars Sally Field as Lincoln’s wife, Joseph Gordon-Levitt as his son, and Tommy Lee Jones as Thaddeus Stevens. Essentially, the film is an adaptation of the book Team of Rivals, written by Doris Kearns Goodwin, and the story focuses on the Civil War years 1861-1865.


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Anna Karenina, The Great Gatsby: On list for (likely) Best Picture 2012 (HOLLYWOOD ELSEWHERE)

On January 1st I presented a list of the likeliest leading Best Picture contenders for 2012. Today Rope of Silicon's Brad Brevet came up with a list of 25 potential Best Picture contenders. I'm using his list to refine mine and to separate the highly favored or half-likelies from the outright kills.

HOLLYWOOD ELSEWHERE 2013 BEST PICTURE FINALISTS (for now):

1. Lincoln (mid to late December), d: Steven Spielberg, cast: Daniel Day Lewis, Sally Field, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tommy Lee Jones. Why: The usual Spielberg-kowtow instinct (i.e., to show obeisance before power) plus the impact of Daniel Day Lewis's lead performance plus the instinct to show respect and allegiance for the legend of Abraham Lincoln. Classic historical chops. Will Spielberg try to hold back on his usual instincts? He may, I think, because of the Lewis influence.

2. The Master, d: Paul Thomas Anderson; cast: Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Laura Dern. Why: This project has felt chilly from the get-go, but if it's halfway focused and well-shaped it'll offer a chance for Hollywood to deliver a big "eff you" to Scientology, which, we've all been told, The Master is absolutely not about. Plus it's hard to imagine Hoffman's L. Ron...sorry, charismatic leader performance not emerging as a Best Actor standout.

3. The Great Gatsby (12.25), d: Baz Luhrman, cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Joel Edgerton, Carey Mulligan, Isla Fisher. Why: The usual instinct to honor an adaptation of a classic novel. As long as Luhrman doesn't screw it up, that is, by going all crazy and wackjobby like he did on Australia.

4. This is Forty (12.21), d: Judd Apatow. Why: Apatow has been getting better and better. One of these years he;s going to hit a long triple or a homer. Cast: Paul Rudd, Leslie Mann, Megan Fox, Melissa McCarthy, Albert Brooks, Ryan Lee, John Lithgow and Charlyne Yi.

5. The Silver Linings Playbook (11.21), d: David O. Russell, cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro, Jacki Weaver, Chris Tucker, Julia Stiles. Why: No clue, but Russell always delivers so I'm guessing/presuming here.

6. Gravity (11.21), d: Alfonso Cuaron; cast: Sandra Bullock, George Clooney. Why: The technical audacity of this film alone, described by Clooney as sort of 2001-ish, will surely attract respect and huzzahs.

7. Les Miserables (12.7), d: Tom Hooper, cast: Russell Crowe, Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway. Why: Classic musical in grand sweeping historical tradition plus direction by Hooper (The King's Speech) plus Crowe, Jackman, etc. And Hathaway finally sings.

 8. Anna Karenina (November/early December), d: Joe Wright., w: Tom Stoppard. Cast: Keira Knightley.


To read the rest of this list and all the others:  http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2012/03/2012_best_pictu.php

Daniel Day Lewis as Lincoln

Author : "Caffeinated" Clint (Thursday, December 1st, 2011 at 3:30 am)

 

Thank God Double D lent his John Hancock to “Lincoln”!

Hey, as disappointing as it was that after umpteen years attached to play the part Liam Neeson ultimately had to nix Spielberg’s “Lincoln” project (Neeson, of course, fronted Spielbuster’s “Schindler’s List”), you can’t bring out the whine card when it comes to the choice of his replacement – Daniel Day Lewis. Forget about replacement, the man’s just as good an actor as you’ll find. Full stop. In any film. Maybe even on the credit roll of “E-Street”. Even “Son of Mask 2″ would probably be worth a watch if Day Lewis was in it. Which he isn’t.

All jokes aside, Day Lewis is going to do magic with such Lincoln bites as “Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose – and you allow him to make war at pleasure”, no!?

Giddy.
The “My Left Foot” and “There Will Be Blood” showpony has gone all out for the role of the assassinated prez in Spielberg’s long-gestating biopic. In addition to growing a gnarly Lincoln beard (seen in the pic below), he’s also said to have been “in character” since the first half-of-the-year – meaning he’ll only answer to Mr Lincoln (on the call sheet, you’ll find no sign of Day Lewis’s name, only Lincoln’s) and, like most actors do after a while, is probably starting to believe he actually is the president of the United States. Heck, don’t be surprised to hear Day Lewis is sharing a doona with Sally Field (playing Mary Todd in the film) each night; research being research and all.

Sounds nutty, but we’ll be the ones rewarded when we see just how far Day Lewis hits it out of the park in a year or so when we catch his sure-to-be-stunning performance. Roll out the red carpet…
I’ve been impressed by quite a few other actor’s takes on Lincoln over the years – namely John Carradine in “Of Human Hearts” (1939), Jason Robards in “The Perfect Tribute” (1991), Hal Halbrook in “North and South” (1985), and who can forget Robert V.Barron’s take in “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure” (1991)? – but I’m betting Day Lewis will flatten the competition. He nails it every time. Even in his lesser efforts, like “Nine” and “Eversmile, New Jersey”, he’s great (and I know many would consider Day Lewis’s participation in Martin Scorsese’s “Age of Innocence” to be a career blunder, but I actually think that’s a terrific film, highly underrated, and yes, Day Lewis is stupendous in it).

Michael Phillips Tweeted this first-look pic of Day Lewis with newly-gained Lincoln chin-fluff this morning – - and yep, my eyes popped out of my head too!
No, he’s not in the full Lincoln get-up… but you get the gist…


Here’s a look at a few other Lincoln’s of the big screen from over the years :
Here’s Hal Holbrook in “North & South” (remember the mini-series with Patrick Swayze?!)

And here’s “Aliens” alum Lance Henriksen in “The Day Lincoln Was Shot”

And the late, great Henry Fonda in “The Young Mr Lincoln”

And who can forget the banana sucker playing Abraham in “Planet of the Apes”!!?


“Lincoln”, currently lensing in the windy city, also stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt (“The Dark Knight Rises”) as Robert Todd Lincoln, Tommy Lee Jones (“Men in Black 3″) as Thaddeus Stevens, James Spader (“Boston Legal”) as WN Bilbo, Lee Pace (“Pushing Daisies”) as Fernardo Wood, Jackie Earle Haley (“All The King’s Men”) as Alexander Stephens, John Hawkes (“Winter’s Bone”) as Robert Latham, David Strathairn (“Goodnight and Good Luck”) as Secretary of State William Seward, Tim Blake Nelson (“The Incredible Hulk”) as Richard Schell, Walter Goggins (“Justified”) as Wells A.Hutchins, and Bruce McGill (“Cinderella Man”) as Edwin Stanton. If I recall correctly, even ex-Lincoln Hal Holbrook has a part in the film.

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