The 2012 biographical film about Abraham Lincoln starring Daniel Day-Lewis is Lincoln.
Directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Tony Kushner, Lincoln concentrates on the final months of the American Civil War and the political struggle to pass the Thirteenth Amendment. That amendment abolished slavery in the United States, making the film as much a story about legislative maneuvering as about battlefield events.
Daniel Day-Lewis played Lincoln, while Sally Field portrayed Mary Todd Lincoln and Tommy Lee Jones played Representative Thaddeus Stevens. Day-Lewis’s performance earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor, and the film also won an Oscar for production design.
Lincoln is sometimes confused with films such as Selma, which focuses on Martin Luther King Jr. and the 1965 voting-rights marches, or The Butler, which follows an African American White House worker across several administrations. Spielberg’s film is specifically set during Lincoln’s presidency, especially the decisive period from January to April 1865.