Who is the only man to have won three Best Actor Oscars?
Marlon Brando
Tom Hanks
Jack Nicholson
Daniel Day-Lewis
British acting legend Daniel Day-Lewis is the only male actor to win the Best Actor award three times: My Left Foot (1989), There Will Be Blood (2007) and Lincoln (2012). What makes this record even more impressive is the fact that Daniel Day-Lewis only been nominated six times. His other Oscar-nominated roles were in In the Name of the Father (1993), Gangs of New York (2002), and Phantom Thread (2017). Day-Lewis retired from acting from 1997 to 2000, taking up a new profession as an apprentice shoe-maker in Italy. Although he returned to acting, he announced his retirement once again in 2017.
The correct answer is Daniel Day-Lewis.