Directed by Steven Spielberg, based on Doris Kearns Goodwin???s Pulitzer Prize winning book, Team of Rivals (2005), and Tony Kushner???s quality screen play (Pulitzer Prize winner for Angels in America), the pitch perfect and visceral performance by Daniel Day Lewis as the President, and a supporting cast including Hal Holbrook, Tommy Lee Jones, James Spader and Sally Fields as Mary Todd Lincoln,