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Lincoln is a 2012 biographical drama film directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln and Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln. It opened for limited release on November 9, 2012 and wide release on November 16, 2012.
The film, screenplay by Tony Kushner, is based on Doris Kearns Goodwin's biography of Lincoln, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, and covers the final four months of Lincoln's life.
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Film Production
- Directed by Steven Spielberg
- Produced by Steven Spielberg
- Produced by Kathleen Kennedy
- Screenplay by Tony Kushner
- Based on Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Starring
- Daniel Day-Lewis
- Sally Field
- David Strathairn
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
- James Spader
- Hal Holbrook
- Tommy Lee Jones
- Lee Pace
- David Oyelowo
- Jared Harris
- Julie White
- Gloria Reuben
- S. Epatha Merkerson
- Bruce McGill
Also
- Music by John Williams
- Cinematography Janusz Kamiński
- Editing by Michael Kahn
Historical figures
- Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the USA
- Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady
- Robert Todd Lincoln
- Tad Lincoln
- Thaddeus Stevens, Radical Republican congressional leader
- William Seward, Secretary of State
- Fernando Wood, Mayor of New York City
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Vice President of the Confederate States of America
- John Archibald Campbell, Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court
- Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War
- Wells A. Hutchins, Democratic congressman
- Elizabeth Keckley, dressmaker
- Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant
- Bluff Wade, Radical Republican
- Ira Clark
- William N. Bilboe, Democratic operative
- Col. Robert Latham
- Richard Schell
- James Ashley
- John Palmer Usher, Secretary of the Interior
- Francis Preston Blair
- Montgomery Blair, US Postmaster General
- Lydia Hamilton Smith, housekeeper
- Elizabeth Blair Lee
- Gideon Wells, US Secretary of the Navy
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