All Daniel Day-Lewis Movies Ranked By Tomatometer
The latest: Audiences say Daniel Day-Lewis is “masterful” in Anemone, and that his performance alone is “worth the ticket.”
We’re ranking the films of Daniel Day-Lewis! We start with his Certified Fresh movies, and he just might be the actor with the most proportionally against his overall filmography. That’s because Day-Lewis has always had a strong and selective career, starting with appearances in Gandhi and The Bounty. By 1985 he was a leading man, in the seminal gay comedy/drama My Beautiful Laundrette. By the 1990s, he became fully established as a generational talent, with a Best Actor Oscar win in My Left Foot, a nomination for In the Name of the Father, and lead roles in Martin Scorsese’s The Age of Innocence and Michael Mann’s The Last of the Mohicans.
Day-Lewis famously took years off of acting afterwards, apprenticing as a shoe cobbler in Italy, before being lured back to film by Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio for Gangs of New York. His method acting style became the stuff of legend, including staying in character off-camera and remaining dressed in era-appropriate clothing. Day-Lewis radiates in these total inhabitation of roles, leading to consistent Oscar nominations for his years-apart movies, including winning for There Will Be Blood and Lincoln. Day-Lewis has long asserted his retirement from acting was imminent, and presumably made good after his film role in P.T. Anderson’s 2017 Phantom Thread. But if there was anyone who could coax the legend back to the silver screen, it was his own son, Ronan Day-Lewis, who convinced his father to co-star along Sean Bean in his feature directorial debut, Anemone. To celebrate his return to cinema — even if it’s only for this one film — let’s take a look at Daniel Day-Lewis’ astonishing career, ranked by Tomatometer. — Alex Vo
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