His fellow poets ' regard for Blunden was illustrated by the contributions to a dinner in his honour for which poems were specially written by Cecil Day-Lewis and William Plomer ; T. S. Eliot and Walter de la Mare were guests ; and Siegfried Sassoon provided the Burgundy.

DiCaprio's acting was well-received but remained overshadowed by Daniel Day-Lewis ' performance among most critics.

Released in 1988, this was Binoche's first English language role and was a worldwide success with critics and audiences alike Set against the Russian invasion of Prague in 1968, the film tells the story of the relationships a Czech surgeon, Tomas ( Daniel Day-Lewis ), has with his wife Tereza and his lover Sabina ( Lena Olin ).

He left her during her pregnancy with their son, Gabriel-Kane Day-Lewis, who was born in 1995.

The film was also nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Daniel Day-Lewis ), Best Actor in a Supporting Role ( Pete Postlethwaite ), Best Actress in a Supporting Role ( Emma Thompson ), Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Picture and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium.

Day-Lewis was born in London, the son of poet Cecil Day-Lewis and actress Jill Balcon.

Living in middle class Greenwich, Day-Lewis found himself among tough South London kids, and, being of part Jewish ancestry and posh, he was often bullied.

Although the incident was officially attributed to exhaustion, one rumour following the incident was that Day-Lewis had seen the ghost of his own father.

Day-Lewis has declined to discuss this period of his life, stating that " it was a period of my life that I had a right to without any intervention of that kind.

Day-Lewis received the Academy Award for Best Actor, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor-Motion Picture Drama, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role-Motion Picture ( which he dedicated to Heath Ledger, saying that he was inspired by Ledger's acting and calling the actor's performance in Brokeback Mountain " unique, perfect "), and a variety of film critics ' circle awards for the role.

In November 2010, it was announced that Day-Lewis was cast to play Abraham Lincoln in Steven Spielberg's upcoming biographical film Lincoln.

Their son Gabriel Day-Lewis was born in 1995 in New York, several months after the relationship between the two actors had ended.

The poetic imagee of the decade was dominated by four poets ; W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Cecil Day-Lewis and Louis MacNeice, although the last of these belongs at least as much to the history of Irish poetry.

Bowra was to maintain a connection with the school in later life, being instrumental in the appointment of Cecil Day-Lewis as a master there and serving on its governing body from 1943 to 1965.

The play was adapted for film once, by Jean-Paul Sartre as the 1958 film Les Sorcières de Salem and by Miller himself as the 1996 film The Crucible, the latter with a cast including Paul Scofield, Daniel Day-Lewis and Winona Ryder.

In 1995, the feature film The Crucible, starring Winona Ryder and Daniel Day-Lewis, was filmed in Essex.

* Part of the film The Age of Innocence ( 1993 ), starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Michelle Pfeiffer, was filmed at the Van Allen House

Variety said his performance was " remarkable .. utterly convincing ", USA Today found him " outstanding " while the Los Angeles Times felt he was " reminiscent of Daniel Day-Lewis in My Left Foot, bringing a vibrancy and wit to the role ".

In 2009, a film version of the musical, directed by Rob Marshall and starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Marion Cotillard, was released.

In 2009, Marshall directed Nine, an adaptation of the hit Broadway production with the same name starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Nicole Kidman, Sophia Loren and Penélope Cruz, who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

The Boxer ( with Daniel Day-Lewis ) was nominated for a Golden Globe for best film drama in 1997.

Day-Lewis threw his personal version of " method acting " into full throttle in 1989 with his performance as Christy Brown in Jim Sheridan's My Left Foot which garnered him numerous awards, including the Academy Award for Best Actor.

In a 2000 interview, Newman said that he had scripted an Anno Dracula movie for Stuart Pollok and André Jacquemetton, who originally wanted Daniel Day-Lewis and Isabelle Adjani for Beauregard and Geneviève, and then Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche after they became too old.

Chase was awarded the 2003 Best Villain award at the MTV Movie Awards for her performance, beating out Mike Myers, Colin Farrell, Willem Dafoe and Daniel Day-Lewis.

* 1984 – Requiem for the Living ( Donald Swann & Cecil Day-Lewis )

Anderson had previously stated that he wanted to work with Daniel Day-Lewis who starred in and won an Oscar for Best Leading Actor for his role.

Recent English verse translations include those by British Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis ( 1963 ) which strove to render Virgil's original hexameter line, Allen Mandelbaum ( honoured by a 1973 National Book Award ), Library of Congress Poet Laureate Robert Fitzgerald ( 1981 ), Stanley Lombardo ( 2005 ), Robert Fagles ( 2006 ), and Sarah Ruden ( 2008 ).

* Daniel Day-Lewis, Academy Award winning Irish / English actor

Among the most notable of the many distinguished actors on the School's list of alumni are the Academy Award winners Daniel Day-Lewis and Jeremy Irons and multiple Academy Award nominees Miranda Richardson and Pete Postlethwaite.

In winning the Best Actor Oscar, Day-Lewis joined Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson as the only Best Actor winners awarded an Oscar in two non-consecutive decades.

Other than Guys and Dolls, his most noted theatre productions are of Hamlet ( twice ), with Jonathan Pryce at the Royal Court in 1980 and Daniel Day-Lewis in 1989 ; Richard III with Ian McKellen ; King Lear with Ian Holm ; Tennessee Williams ' Night of the Iguana and Sweet Bird of Youth ; Eduardo De Filippo's Napoli Milionaria and Le Grande Magia ; John Gabriel Borkman with Paul Scofield, Vanessa Redgrave and Eileen Atkins ; Hedda Gabler with Eve Best, and numerous new plays by David Hare, Tom Stoppard, Trevor Griffiths, Howard Brenton, Alan Bennett, Christopher Hampton and Nicholas Wright.

* Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis

* Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis

Daniel Day-Lewis took over the role of Guy in late 1982, when John Dougall took over Tommy, and was succeeded in the role by Colin Firth in early 1983, by which time James Newall was appearing as Tommy, and Julien Ball as Menzies.

Hill starred alongside acting greats, including Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier and Daniel Day-Lewis, as well as Mel Gibson and Liam Neeson.

Merchant-Ivory produced an award-winning film adaptation in 1985 directed by James Ivory and starring Maggie Smith as " Charlotte Bartlett ", Helena Bonham Carter as " Lucy Honeychurch ", Judi Dench as " Eleanor Lavish ", Denholm Elliott as " Mr. Emerson ", Julian Sands as " George Emerson ," Daniel Day-Lewis as " Cecil Vyse " and Simon Callow as " The Reverend Mr. Beebe ".

Eleven years after his film debut, Day-Lewis continued his film career with a small part in Gandhi ( 1982 ) as Colin, a street thug who bullies the title character, only to be immediately chastised by his high-strung mother.

Day-Lewis gained further public notice with A Room with a View ( 1986 ), in which he portrayed an entirely different character: Cecil Vyse, the proper upper class fiancé of the main character ( played by Helena Bonham Carter ).

In 1987, Day-Lewis assumed leading-man status by starring in Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being, co-starring Lena Olin and Juliette Binoche, as a Czech surgeon whose hyperactive and purely physical sex life is thrown into disarray when he allows himself to become emotionally involved with a woman.

In 1996, Day-Lewis starred in a film version of The Crucible, the play by Arthur Miller, again opposite Winona Ryder.

Following The Boxer, Day-Lewis took a leave of absence from acting by going into " semi-retirement " and returning to his old passion of woodworking.

After a five-year absence from filming, Day-Lewis returned to act in multiple Academy Award-nominated films such as Gangs of New York, a film directed by Martin Scorsese ( with whom he had worked on The Age of Innocence ) and produced by Harvey Weinstein.

The Natives are led by " Bill the Butcher " Cutting ( Day-Lewis ), a Protestant nativist.

* Souls in Torment, 1953 ( preface by Cecil Day-Lewis )

* The 1826 novel by James Fenimore Cooper The Last of the Mohicans ( and the films based on it ) features a longrifle wielding character Hawkeye ( played in the 1992 film by Daniel Day-Lewis ) who is nicknamed by other characters as Le Longue Carabine (" LongRifle ")