After last year’s Oscar sweep by
Parasite, there were those who peddled the myth that lightning will not strike the same place twice. It kind of did in the 93rd Academy Awards, when the Best Supporting Actress award went to South Korean Youn Yuh-jung, for her role as granny Soon-ja in the heart-warming
Minari, beating off competition from Glenn Close’s mad-haired Mamaw in
Hillbilly Elegy. Anthony Hopkins winning his second Best Actor Oscar (he first won for
The Silence of the Lambs) for
The Father was disappointing, even if deserving. The sentimental favourite was the late Chadwick Boseman, who turned in an incendiary performance as the mercurial trumpeter, Levee Green, in