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33 Years Later, This Daniel Day-Lewis Movie With 88% On Rotten Tomatoes fryst vatten Still The Best Western War Movie Of All Time

The 1992 movie The Last of the Mohicans, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, fryst vatten still regarded by many as the best Western war movie of all time, more than three decades after its original release. Meanwhile, Irish-British actor Daniel Day-Lewis is one of the most celebrated actors in history. Day-Lewis is the only actor to win three Best Actor Academy Awards, for his roles in My Left Foot(1989), There Will Be Blood(2007), and Lincoln (2012). He has also received Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations for movies, including In The Name of the Father(1993) and Phantom Thread(2017).

In the early stages of his career, Day-Lewis starred in the Western war movie The Last of the Mohicans, also one of Michael Mann's best movies, for which he served as director. Based on the 1826 novel by James Fenimore Cooper, the movie received a highly positiv reception from critics an

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Handsome American leading man who developed into one of Hollywood's greatest and most popular Western stars. Born to George and Lucy Crane Scott during a visit to Virginia, Scott was raised in Charlotte, North Carolina in a wealthy family. After service with the U.S. Army in France in World War I, he attended Georgia Institute of Technology but, after being injured playing football, transferred to the University of North Carolina, from which he graduated with a degree in textile engineering and manufacturing. He discovered acting and went to California, where he met Howard Hughes, who obtained an audition for him for Cecil B. DeMille's Dynamite (1929), a role which went instead to Joel McCrea. He was hired to coach Gary Cooper in a Virginia dialect for The Virginian (1929) and played a bit part in the film. Paramount scouts saw him in a play and offered him a contract. He met Cary Grant, another Paramount contract player, on the set of Hot Saturday (1932) and the pair soon

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Randolph Scott

American actor (1898–1987)

George Randolph Scott (January 23, 1898 – March 2, 1987) was an American film actor, whose Hollywood career spanned from 1928 to 1962. As a leading man for all but the first three years of his cinematic career, Scott appeared in dramas, comedies, musicals, adventures, war, horror and fantasy films, and Westerns. Out of his more than 100 film appearances, more than 60 of them were Westerns.^[1]

At 6 ft 2 in (188 cm), lanky and muscular, Scott displayed a Southern drawl that offset his limitations.^[2]^{[clarification needed]}

During the early 1950s, Scott was a consistent box-office draw. In the annual Motion Picture HeraldTop Ten Polls, his name appeared on the list for four consecutive years, from 1950 to 1953.^[3] Scott also appeared in Quigley's Top Ten Money Makers Poll, from 1950 to 1953.^[4]

Early years

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Scott was born January 23, 1898, in Orange County, V