MY LEFT FOOT Tribute to Miramax: Ten Years of Hits

My Left Foot won a Best Actor Oscar for Daniel Day Lewis as an Irish writer who overcomes cerebral palsy and a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Brenda Fricker for the portrayal of his formidable mother. As Vincent Canby wrote, “My Left Foot is an intelligent, beautifully acted adaptation of Christy Brown’s first book, published in 1955, and a very successful example of triumph-over-adversity screen literature. Shot in Ireland with Irish and English talent, My Left Foot’s emotions are expressed within a social context that gives them a tough texture. Christy knows he will always be different, but that doesn’t prevent him from attempting to realize himself as completely as other men. How he does this, and at what cost, provides My Left Foot with its narrative shape.”