90 days to go - Daniel Day-Lewis is awarded his first BAFTA in 1990
24 years ago, Daniel Day-Lewis was presented with his first Leading Actor award for his performance in My Left Foot (1989) by Dame Angela Lansbury.
In his career to date, Day-Lewis has been nominated for six BAFTAs, winning four. His latest was for Lincoln (2012), in which he played the lead role of the American President.
Famed for his method-acting, Day-Lewis demonstrated great humour and self-awareness in his acceptance speech:
Just on the chance that I might one day have to speak on an evening such as this, I have actually stayed in character as myself for the last 55 years, and I had a various selection of BAFTA sets, downscaled, dated from the late 50s placed in every single room of every house that I ever lived in. Every time I rise from a chair, it spontaneously unleashes a soundtrack of thunderous applause, with a few boos and some drunken hecklers.
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