To play cerebral palsy and not to mock it or make light of it is a tremendous feat of mind-meld. Since 1982, he has only twenty credits to his name, and only 13 roles since (including) My Left Foot, his first victory, and the one for which he most carefully considered the role. His work is always a conscious choice of character, too. By any account this actor’s actor has found himself in extreme fortune and generous timing each of his roles triumphs as a character vehicle, whose environment and/or plot places second and/or third. So, how long does it take to become someone else?įor pouring himself into Christy Brown, Daniel Day-Lewis earned himself the first of three Best Actor awards out of six nominations. Each person may spend their whole life becoming themselves, as if there was a post erected to pass. The manner by which a human presents themselves outwardly is governed by a genetic mix, et cetera.
In other ways, aspects about an individual human are subject to their environment-a socio-economic standing, a gender, a fight for survival.
In this way the body is determined and fraught with nature. An individual human, say, is governed by genetic code hardwired into every bit of body its height and skin color determined and unchangeable save an external change. Brenda Fricker won the Oscar as Best Supporting Actress as Brown's mother and she is the real moral centre of the film and this film proves that Hollywood is capable of choosing small, lesser known films for Oscar consideration and 'My Left Foot' is a film that is uplifting without being sentimental.A conscious creature develops a personality over time, though differently than it grows physically.
Director Jim Sheridan directs the film like a series of home movies that millions want to see. He achieved the great success of being an accomplished writer and artist. Day-Lewis probably would have won anyway as his performance was hard to ignore and he had never received any acting nominations from the Academy before this film despite turning in great work in such films as 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being' and 'My Beautiful Laundrette.' As Christy Brown, Daniel Day-Lewis makes his character unsympathetic as he doesn't want you to feel sorry for him. The Academy was still riding the wave of awarding Dustin Hoffman a second Best Actor prize a year earlier for his performance as a mentally challenged individual in 'Rain Man' and since Day-Lewis' performance was superior to Hoffman's, the Academy had to recognize him.
Daniel Day-Lewis' almost impossible performance as a man with cerebral palsy earned him a well-deserved Oscar in 1989 for Best Actor over the heavily favoured Tom Cruise in 'Born on the Fourth of July' and Morgan Freeman in 'Driving Miss Daisy'.
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