Daniel-Day Lewis, Best Lead Actor

Having just been announced as Best Actor in There Will Be Blood, Daniel-Day-Lewis was ‘knighted’ by last year’s British success story, Dame Helen Mirren.

Imitating the famous pose on stage at Hollywood’s Kodak Theatre, the London-born actor joked about her performance as the Queen, saying:

‘This is the closest I’ll ever come to getting a knighthood, so thank you’.

Day-Lewis, 50, capped a series of previous honours for his searing performance in ‘There Will Be Blood’, taking the second Oscar of his career. He previously took the Oscar for the 1989 movie ‘My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown’.

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