---
title: 'Lincoln (2012)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Steven Spielberg'
released: '2012-10-08'
runtime_minutes: 150
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'War'
  - 'History'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/lincoln-2012'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443272/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Lincoln (2012)

2012 · 150 min · Drama, War, History · United States


## Synopsis

Lincoln is a 2012 American biographical historical drama film directed and produced by Steven Spielberg, starring Daniel Day-Lewis as United States President Abraham Lincoln. The film features Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, James Spader, Hal Holbrook, and Tommy Lee Jones in supporting roles. Its screenplay by Tony Kushner was loosely based on Doris Kearns Goodwin's 2005 biography Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln and covers the final four months of Lincoln's life. The film focuses on President Lincoln's efforts in January 1865 to abolish slavery and involuntary servitude by having the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution passed by the United States House of Representatives.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Steven Spielberg](https://cinepixo.com/people/steven-spielberg)
- **Producer:** [Steven Spielberg](https://cinepixo.com/people/steven-spielberg), [Kathleen Kennedy](https://cinepixo.com/people/kathleen-kennedy)
- **Screenplay:** [Tony Kushner](https://cinepixo.com/people/tony-kushner)
- **Original Music Composer:** [John Williams](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-williams-2)
- **Director of Photography:** [Janusz Kamiński](https://cinepixo.com/people/janusz-kaminski)
- **Editor:** [Michael Kahn](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-kahn)

## Cast

- [Stephen McKinley Henderson](https://cinepixo.com/people/stephen-mckinley-henderson) as William Slade
- [Gregory Itzin](https://cinepixo.com/people/gregory-itzin) as John Archibald Campbell
- [Hal Holbrook](https://cinepixo.com/people/hal-holbrook) as Francis Preston Blair
- [James Ike Eichling](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-ike-eichling) as William Dennison Jr.
- [Gulliver McGrath](https://cinepixo.com/people/gulliver-mcgrath) as Tad Lincoln
- [David Strathairn](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-strathairn) as William H. Seward
- [Jackie Earle Haley](https://cinepixo.com/people/jackie-earle-haley) as Alexander H. Stephens
- [Joseph Gordon-Levitt](https://cinepixo.com/people/joseph-gordon-levitt) as Robert Todd Lincoln
- [Michael Shiflett](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-shiflett) as Robert M. T. Hunter
- [Dane DeHaan](https://cinepixo.com/people/dane-dehaan) as Second White Soldier
- [John Hutton](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-hutton) as Charles Sumner
- [Jeremy Strong](https://cinepixo.com/people/jeremy-strong) as John George Nicolay
- [David Costabile](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-costabile) as James Mitchell Ashley
- [Walt Smith](https://cinepixo.com/people/walt-smith) as William P. Fessenden
- [Joseph Cross](https://cinepixo.com/people/joseph-cross) as John Hay

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