Daniel Day-Lewis & ReOscaring

Now that The World's Greatest Living/Working Actress™ Meryl Streep will likely hand the The World's Greatest Living/Working Actor™ (aka The Chameleon) Daniel Day-Lewis an Oscar (refer to writing on the wall)--his third--early next year, it got me thinking about how few films he has made, the fact that he won his second statue just five years ago, and how often re-oscaring for acting happens. Out of the 320 acting races thus far, it has happened 44 times, which is roughly 14% of the time.  While it occurred pretty evenly in the late 1960s, 1970s, early 1980s, and 1990s (almost once/year on average), it's not exactly common, which makes Hilary Swank's second win all the more an anomaly.

Behold ... (feel free to correct math/missing names, as this was hastily put together)

The ReOscaring List
2011: Meryl Streep #3

2008: Sean Penn
2007: Daniel Day-Lewis
2004: Hilary Swank
2001: Denzel Washington

1999: Kevin Spacey
1999: Michael Caine
1997: Jack Nicholson #3
1994: Jessica Lange
1994: Tom Hanks
1994: Dianne Wiest
1992: Gene Hackman
1991: Jodie Foster

1988: Dustin Hoffman
1984: Sally Field
1983: Jack Nicholson
1982: Meryl Streep
1981: Katharine Hepburn #4
1980: Robert De Niro

1979: Melvyn Douglas
1978: Jane Fonda
1978: Maggie Smith
1977: Jason Robards
1974: Ingrid Bergman #3
1973: Glenda Jackson
1973: Jack Lemmon
1972: Marlon Brando
1970: Helen Hayes

1968: Katharine Hepburn #3
1967: Katharine Hepburn
1966: Elizabeth Taylor
1965: Shelley Winters
1964: Peter Ustinov

1956: Ingrid Bergman
1956: Anthony Quinn
1952: Gary Cooper
1951: Vivien Leigh

1949: Olivia de Havilland
1946: Fredric March
1940: Walter Brennan #3

1938: Bette Davis
1938: Spencer Tracy
1938: Walter Brennan
1937: Luise Rainer

The Best Actor Race (Currently)
1. Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln.  Most GD Oscarologists agree.
2. Denzel Washington, Flight
3. Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
4. John Hawkes, The Sessions.  The Film Experience has him pegged as the winner right now.
5. Hugh Jackman, Les Misérables.  The AMPAS could fall in love with the film and Jackman still might be left out in the cold.

6. Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook.  How powerful is Harvey?
7. Anthony Hopkins, Hitchcock
8. Jean-Louis Trintignant, Amour
9. Bill Murray, Hyde Park on Hudson
10. Tommy Lee Jones, Hope Springs. Strange that the GD odds list doesn't have his name but so many others who don't even figure in.

11. Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained.  See Rope of Silicon.
12. Suraj Sharma, Life of Pi
13. Richard Gere, Arbitrage
14. Matt Damon, Promised Land
15. Jamie Foxx, Django Unchained
16. Brad Pitt, Killing Them Softly
17. Ben Affleck, Argo

The Big Eight
Best Picture: Argo
Best Director: Ben Affleck, Argo
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
Best Actress: Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
Best Supporting Actor: Leonardo DiCaprio, Django Unchained
Best Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway, Les Misérables
Best Original Screenplay: Django Unchained
Best Adapted Screenplay: Silver Linings Playbook