Every Daniel Day Lewis Movie Performance Ranked From Worst To Best

By Jack Pooley / February 24, 2018

1. There Will Be Blood (2007)

And of course, was anything else ever going to land the number one spot? Paul Thomas Anderson's haunting period drama gives DDL the role of a lifetime, of which he's had several, playing a misanthropic oil man driven only be greed.

Even were Daniel Plainview not a thoroughly complex, fascinating character, Day-Lewis' monstrous, volcanic turn would be one for the ages, perfectly calibrated between eerie calm and explosive anger.

It rightly won him his second Best Actor Oscar, and in addition to being the best work of his career, just might be the best screen performance of the 21st century, if not beyond.

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