When Daniel Day-Lewis wins his (virtually guaranteed) Academy Award for best actor tonight, he’ll likely thank his wife, Rebecca Miller. But, what few people may know is that Miller is a respected actress, film director and screenwriter!

She also has a very famous family…

Oscar night is nearly upon us and for those of you planning to have a get together we figured we’d help you dominate in your Oscar pool for the big party. Check out a Vegas odds maker’s lines for the three main categories and find out my one outlier pick that should’ve been for Best Actress.

For my personal taste Daniel Day-Lewis is the greatest actor of this generation. When word came down the line that the extremely personal and reclusive star would be portraying Abraham Lincoln in Steven Spielberg’s biopic it immediately became a must on my calendar. A while back a student snapped an incredible shot of Day-Lewis eating lunch while regaled in full Lincoln mode. It quickly made the rounds but now we have our first official look at Daniel as the 16th President courtesy of Entertainment Weekly. See the amazing full page image and read what Spielberg had to say about the film and Day-Lewis’ work.

I would argue that Daniel Day-Lewis is the greatest actor of the last 25 years. I would also argue that Abraham Lincoln was the greatest President in American history. I would further argue that Stephen Spielberg is one of the 10 greatest film directors in American cinema history. That’s a ton of arguing and hyperbole but let me tell you when I heard that Day-Lewis was going to portray Lincoln in Spielberg’s biopic of the 16th president I collectively lost my marbles. I’m not prone to look ahead in anticipation of films but this is an exception.