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A decade ago , Daniel Day - Lewisbroke a monumental record at the Academy Awards , and there ’s only one player who has a chance to match that record at the next Academy Award in 2024 . 10 year ago , Day - Lewis win his third Academy Award for Best Actor for playing the eponymic U.S. president in Steven Spielberg’sLincoln . This gave Day - Lewis a preeminence that no other actor in the history of Hollywood has achieved . His Oscar record seemed unbeatable , until a screen fable came back with a fierce performance this class .
There ’s a raft of strong competition in the subspecies for Best Actor at the 2024 Oscars . Cillian Murphy is a popular cream for his mesmerizing turn as the titular father of the nuclear bomb calorimeter in Christopher Nolan ’s blockbuster biopicOppenheimer . The award could go to Joaquin Phoenix forNapoleonor Bradley Cooper forMaestroor Leonardo DiCaprio forKillers of the Flower Moon . But there ’s one surprising contender in this subspecies who could tie Day - Lewis ’ record next year .
Daniel Day-Lewis Is The Only Three-Time Best Actor Oscar Winner
Day - Lewis ’ Best Actor win forLincolnmade himthe only worker in history to win the award three time . Before his win forLincoln , Day - Lewis had previously won Best Actor for work Christy Brown , a humanity born with cerebral palsy , inMy Left Footand Daniel Plainview , an unscrupulous oil tycoon , inThere Will Be Blood . He was also nominate for his performances inIn the Name of the Father , Gangs of New York , and his last filmPhantom Thread , but he lost to other actors .
Anthony Hopkins Is The Only Actor Who Could Tie Him At The 2024 Oscars
Of all the two - sentence Best Actor winners who are still alive – Jack Nicholson , Dustin Hoffman , Tom Hanks , Sean Penn , and Anthony Hopkins – only one has a fortune to match Day - Lewis ’ criminal record at the 2024 Oscars . Nicholson is practically retired and Hoffman , Hanks , and Penn do n’t have any major movies out this twelvemonth , but Hopkins really has a shot . Hopkins has become a deep sleeper contender for next year ’s Best Actor prize , thanks to his upcoming role as pioneer psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud in the fictionalized dramaFreud ’s Last Session .
Hopkins win his first Best Actor prize for playingHannibal Lecter inThe secretiveness of the Lambsand mark his second victory for his powerful turn as a dementia patient inThe Fatherin 2020 . This was a moderately surprising win , as the accolade was conceive to be earmarked for the tardy Chadwick Boseman . If he can root for off that surprisal again next year , then he ’ll become the second actor in story – afterDaniel Day - Lewis – to win the Academy Award for Best Actor three times .
