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Steven Spielberg directed and produced Lincoln (2012), with Daniel Day-Lewis in the title role of President Abraham Lincoln. The supporting cast includes Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones, David Strathairn, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
Lincoln focuses on President Abraham Lincoln's effort in January 1865 to pass the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution through the House of Representatives, abolishing slavery and involuntary servitude. The screenplay by Tony Kushner is based primarily on Doris Kearns Goodwin's 2005 biography Team of Rivals.
Lincoln won two Academy Awards at the 85th ceremony: Best Actor for Daniel Day-Lewis and Best Production Design. It received twelve nominations in total, including Best Picture and Best Director.
Lincoln grossed two hundred seventy-five point three million dollars worldwide, with one hundred eighty-two point two million in North America and ninety-three point nine million overseas, against a sixty-five-million-dollar production budget.
Tony Kushner wrote the screenplay, which he based primarily on Doris Kearns Goodwin's 2005 biography Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. Kushner's initial draft ran to five hundred pages before he narrowed the focus to the two-month period surrounding the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment.
Liam Neeson had been cast as Lincoln in January 2005 but left the project in July 2010, saying he had grown too old for the part. Neeson was 58 at the time, while Lincoln during the depicted period was 55 and 56. Neeson himself subsequently suggested Daniel Day-Lewis to Spielberg as a replacement.