Day-Lewis looms as large as the derricks that dominate the unruly Central California landscape.
Cecil Day-Lewis was one of the most notable Anglo-Irish poets of the 20th Century.
If he succeeds, Day-Lewis would be the first male actor to win three best actor Oscars.
Still, these are external choices, and Mr. Day-Lewis works famously, and phenomenally, from the inside out.
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Daniel Day-Lewis will play the president, while his wife will be portrayed by actress Sally Field.
It also includes the final stanza of The Newborn, written to mark the birth of Daniel Day-Lewis.
The couple will also meet Lincoln experts at the Presidential Library and Museum where Day-Lewis researched his role.
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British actor Daniel Day-Lewis has made Oscars history as the first man to win three best actor awards.
The list features actors such as Jeremy Irons, Daniel Day-Lewis and Kate Winslet, all of whom were privately educated.
Tamasin and Daniel Day-Lewis said they were "thrilled" with the archive's new home.
It's an insight with which Day-Lewis may make some history of his own.
Backstage at SAG, Day-Lewis was hardly ready to predict a third Oscar win.
It wouldn't work without an actor as intense and magnificent as Daniel Day-Lewis, who plays Daniel Plainview, a monomaniacal oilman.
Yet for all the novelty of this performance, the role is of a piece with Day-Lewis' larger body of work.
Actress Sally Field is to star opposite fellow two-time Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis in Steven Spielberg's film about Abraham Lincoln.
Watching Day-Lewis as Lincoln is a master class is seeing how good negotiation can change the fate of a nation.
Edgar" and the "Sherlock Holmes" sequel, and next year, Mr. Day-Lewis will be pre-ambling around in one in Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln.
But he has long held dual Irish citizenship, and his father, the English poet laureate Cecil Day-Lewis, was born in Ireland.
The archive, never seen in public before, includes a letter from WH Auden to Day-Lewis criticising one of the latter's poems.
Daniel Day-Lewis has received another best actor nomination for his performance in Lincoln, at this year's Evening Standard film awards.
But it would turn out the best gag of the show was from Daniel Day-Lewis, collecting his Oscar from Meryl Streep.
As he accepted his award for best actor on Sunday, Day-Lewis remarked that "it was an actor that murdered Abraham Lincoln".
The first films to be shown on opening night will be Lincoln, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, and the latest James Bond adventure, Skyfall.
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Daniel Day-Lewis not the first actor to be nominated for playing Lincoln.
Meanwhile, Anglo-Irish actor Daniel Day-Lewis is a favourite to win the leading actor prize for his turn as Lincoln in Spielberg's historical drama.
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But more than any other actor, even Henry Fonda's folksy "Young Mr. Lincoln" (1939), Day-Lewis' version seems like a likable, three-dimensional human being.
"To be compared with the great inspirational Daniel Day-Lewis is a tribute in itself, so to win this award, I'm overwhelmed, " Jones said.
So it was perhaps no accident that another master of his trade, Daniel Day-Lewis, spent ten months apprenticing with Bemer in 1999 and 2000.
His most recent, Lincoln, received 12 nominations at this year's Oscars, winning two awards including best actor for Daniel Day-Lewis in the title role.
British-Irish citizen Daniel Day-Lewis - who at the weekend became the first man to win the best actor Oscar three times - was fifth.
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