Daniel Day-Lewi final performance, Is it be going the final Oscar too..?

After announcing his effective retirement from acting, there’s an incredible amount of pressure on his final film to deliver the kind of performance that can round out the incredible career Day-Lewis has had.

Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film Phantom Thread opens in theatres in just two months, and we’ve only now learned exactly what it’s going to be about. The movie stars Daniel Day-Lewis, in what will be his final performance, as a dressmaker who lives a life of rigid structure and occasional dalliances, until he meets a woman who interrupts his strictly patterned life.

Anderson and Day-Lewis were very secretive while shooting the film, and for months plot details were only rumors. Phantom Thread was thought just to be a working title. This summer, Day-Lewis boosted some of the rumors by saying that he was retiring from acting after this film to become a dressmaker, after falling in love with the craft while making this movie.

According to Phantom Thread’s brand-new synopsis, Day-Lewis plays the character Reynolds Woodcock, a renowned dressmaker who, along with his sister Cyril (Lesley Manville) “are at the centre of British fashion,” dressing 1950s, post-war London’s royalty and socialites “with the distinct style of The House of Woodcock.” Woodcock has short, protracted relationships with a string of women until he meets Alma (Vicky Krieps) “who soon becomes a fixture in his life as his muse and lover.” Woodcock must work to reconcile his personal and business lives while he realizes he’s—gasp—falling in love.

Phantom Thread will open in theatres in a limited engagement on December 25, and will go wide in January 2018. The first trailer is reportedly dropping soon

Three Oscars for Best Actor, four BAFTAs and two Golden Globes later, Daniel Day-Lewis is now ending his career with Paul Thomas Anderson’s 1950s-set drama, Phantom Thread.

Daniel Day-Lewis, with his masterful performance in “Lincoln” (2012) as President Abraham Lincoln, has been voted your favourite Best Actor Oscar win of the decade. Two weeks ago Gold Derby asked you to vote for your preferred Best Actor winner of the 2010s and Day-Lewis earned 34% of the vote, far above any other contender

Day-Lewis is in the elite club of only five other actors that have won at least three Oscars in their career, including Ingrid Bergman, Walter Brennan, Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep and Katharine Hepburn. The method actor previously won Best Actor for playing cerebral palsy-afflicted artist Christy Brown in 1989’s “My Left Foot” and greedy oil tycoon Daniel Plainview in 2007’s “There Will Be Blood.”

The 60-year-old actor could earn his fourth Oscar this year with “Phantom Thread.” Not only is he reuniting with Paul Thomas Anderson, who directed “There Will Be Blood,” but this is also reported to be his final movie. Day-Lewis announced this summer that he was retiring from acting. What better way to honour one of the cinema’s finest actors than with a farewell Oscar?