Daniel Day-Lewis wins Best Actor Oscar for 'Lincoln'
of Milan Kundera's celebrated novel "The Unbearable Lightness of Being", which he capped with his Oscar-winning performance of the cerebral palsy-stricken Christy Brown in Jim Sheridan's "My Left Foot" (1989).
He returned to stage again but his second theatre stint was not successful. The Richard Eyre's National Theatre production of "Hamlet" ended abruptly when Day-Lewis walked off the stage one night, mid-performance, due to nervous exhaustion. He never returned to stage after the incident.
The incident also saw him taking a break from movies until 1992. He made a successful return with "Last of the Mohicans". He reunited with director Sheridan for "In the Name of the Father" to play an Irish man wrongly convicted of taking part in an IRA bombing. His third film with Sheridan was "The Boxer" in 1996.
Day-Lewis starred in Martin Scorsese's adaptation of Edith Wharton's "The Age of Innocence" in 1993 before taking up Nicholas Hytner's film adaptation of Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" in 1996. He met his wife, Rebecca Miller, the author's daughter during this film.
After "The Boxer", Day-Lewis went on another self-imposed acting exile apparently. Not much is known about this period of his life but it is believed that he took up cobbling after being fascinated by shoe-making in Italy.
He was convinced to return in front of the camera by Leonardo DiCaprio and Scorsese to play Bill the Butcher in "Gangs of New York".
After Gangs, he was directed by his wife in the drama "The Ballad of Jack & Rose" but it was the
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