Daniel Day Lewis won his third Best Actor Oscar for his performance in
Lincoln. Directed by Steven Spielberg, with a screenplay by Tony Kushner and an all-star cast including Lewis as the 16th President, Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln, Tommy Lee Jones as Thaddeus Stevens, Joseph Gordon Levitt as Lincoln's son Robert, and more. The film tells of Lincoln's efforts to pass the Thirteenth Amendment to permanently alter the Constitution to abolish slavery in the United States, of the political battle over the amendment on the eve of the end of the Civil War, and of other events surrounding this historic time period -- all leading up to Lincoln's death on April 15, 1865.
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