Nominee Spotlight: Daniel Day-Lewis
Starting out as a vandal in Sunday Bloody Sunday and following it up with a part eleven years later as a thug in Gandhi (he bullies Gandhi, he does), Day-Lewis really clicked when playing the gay, punkish Johnny (left) in Stephen Frears' My Beautiful Laundrette, written by Hanif Kureishi.
The film released in the US on the same day in 1986 as the Merchant-Ivory production of EM Forster's A Room With A View, which starred Daniel as the upperclass snob Cecil Vyse. The two characters could not have been more different, and top American critics like Roger Ebert were rapturous with praise. Daniel Day-Lewis was rightfully hailed as the next great actor.
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