Day-Lewis Dedicates Award to Ledger
Jan 27, 11:05 PM (ET)
By BETH HARRIS
(AP) Daniel Day-Lewis accepts the award
for outstanding performance by a male actor in a
leading role for his work in "There Will Be Blood"
at the 14th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards
on Sunday, Jan. 27, 2008, in Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Daniel Day-Lewis dedicated his Screen Actors Guild Award to Heath Ledger.
Day-Lewis, who was honored Sunday as leading actor for his performance in "There Will Be Blood," gave an acceptance speech that echoed comments he made last week about Ledger, the 28-year-old Australian actor whose death stunned Hollywood, on "The Oprah Winfrey Show."
"In 'Brokeback Mountain' he was unique, he was perfect," Day-Lewis said. "That scene in the trailer at the end of the film is as moving as anything I think I've ever seen."
Backstage, the 50-year-old Day-Lewis said he never met Ledger but the actor's death was all he had been thinking about recently.
"I thought he was beautiful. I just had a very strong feeling I would have liked him very much as a man," he said. "I admired him very much. I'm absolutely certain he would have done many wonderful things in his life."
Ledger's photo from his Oscar-nominated role in 2005's "Brokeback Mountain" closed the SAG award show's in-memoriam segment.
Daniel Day Lewis's Speech: