Washington: British actor Anthony Hopkins gained the best actor Oscar on Sunday, an upset victory over the late Chadwick Boseman, the presumed front-runner.
Hopkins, 83, gained the second Oscar of his storied profession for a heart-wrenching efficiency as a person with dementia in ‘The Father.’
He didn’t attend the ceremony. With Sunday’s win, Hopkins grew to become the oldest actor ever to win an Academy Award.
Hopkins has a six-decade movie, TV and stage profession. He is maybe best recognized for enjoying the sensible however twisted assassin Hannibal Lecter within the 1991 thriller, ‘The Silence of the Lambs,’ for which he gained his first Oscar.
He additionally gained the BAFTA Best Actor award in Britain this 12 months for ‘The Father.’
Boseman, best recognized for the superhero film ‘Black Panther,’ had been broadly anticipated to claim the best actor prize for his position as an bold trumpet participant in Twenties jazz drama, ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ after profitable a slew of awards within the run-up to the Oscars.
Boseman died in August 2020, having saved secret a four-year battle with colon most cancers.
In ‘The Father,’ Hopkins performs an growing older man who has refused any assist from his household and who’s starting to doubt what’s actual and what’s imagined. It is tailored from a 2012 stage play of the identical title.
Born in Wales, the soft-spoken Hopkins is the son of a baker whose profession has seen him taking part in characters starting from the late U.S. President Richard Nixon to artist Pablo Picasso, Pope Benedict and director Alfred Hitchcock.
But Hopkins stated his old flame was music and that he got here to performing as a career accidentally. He can also be an achieved pianist and artist who has lived for years in California.
