Sentences with phrase «malign oil magnate»

Born into a very different elite in 1957 — his parents were Anglo - Irish Poet Laureate Cecil Day - Lewis and actress Jill Balcon, daughter of Ealing Studios boss Sir Michael Balcon — Daniel Day - Lewis has become the actor of choice to play American giants, whether winning Oscar number two as malign oil magnate Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood (2007), or resurrecting a wearily human, benign Abraham Lincoln for Spielberg.