And the winner is…
On Sunday, April 25, Anthony Hopkins took house the Best Actor in a Leading Role award at the 2021 Oscars. Hopkins caught the acting reward for his efficiency of Anthony, an aging guy who is an undependable storyteller due to advancing amnesia, in The Father.
The 83-year-old star, who formerly won an Academy Award in the very same classification for his operate in The Silence of the Lambs, wasn’t present for the awards reveal. Thus, speaker and in 2015’s Best Actor winner Joaquin Phoenix accepted the award on Hopkins’ behalf.
The Joker star informed the crowd, “The Academy congratulates Anthony Hopkins and accepts the Oscar on his behalf.”
Although Hopkins wasn’t the frontrunner in this classification, as numerous believed the Oscar would go to the late Chadwick Boseman for his efficiency in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, his win is a historical one. Specifically, the popular star simply dismissed the late Christopher Plummer as the earliest Oscar winner ever. Plummer, who died in February at 91, was 82 when he took house the Best Supporting Actor award in 2011 for his efficiency in Beginners.
