What Owen said:Lincolnbrilliantly dramatizes the delicacy of politics, along with the raw brutality of it.
And thats why he spends the movie alone in spirit.
It brims with precise performances (the joy of actors given something tasty to chew on).
Credit: David James
Number of Oscar nods:12.
Movies Oscar history:Get comfortable; this will take longer than the State of the Union address.
Day-Lewis, whos been nominated five times, is poised to take home his third Best Actor trophy.
He previously won forMy Left FootandThere Will Be Blood.
Tommy Lee Jones has been nominated four times, winning Best Supporting Actor for his role inThe Fugitive.
Cinematographer Janusz Kaminski has been nominated six times, winning twice forSchindlers ListandSaving Private Ryan.
Screenwriter Tony Kushner was also nominated for his work on SpielbergsMunich.
Sound mixer Andy Nelson has been nominated 18 times including this yearsLes Miserables winning forSaving Private Ryan.
What is has won thus far:Once the presumed frontrunner,Lincolnhas lost ground toArgoin the pre-Oscar preliminaries.
He would become the first actor ever with three Best Actor statues.
(Katharine Hepburn has four Best Actress trophies.)
When your grandchildren and great-grandchildren imagine Abraham Lincoln, theyll forever be thinking of Daniel Day-Lewis.
Worst Line:Four score and seven years ago… Just kidding.
and No…. Oh to hell with it.
Shoot me dead, too.
I mean… abstention!
Its like every Congressmen with a crisis of conscious suddenly came down witha bout of HowardDean-itis.
