Hopkins is the oldest actor ever to win an Academy Award
Washington: British actor Anthony Hopkins won the best actor Oscar on Sunday, an upset victory over the late Chadwick Boseman, the presumed front-runner.
Hopkins, 83, won the second Oscar of his storied career for a heart-wrenching performance as a man with dementia in ‘The Father.’
He did not attend the ceremony. With Sunday s win, Hopkins became the oldest actor ever to win an Academy Award.
Hopkins has a six-decade film, TV and stage career. He is perhaps best known for playing the brilliant but twisted murderer Hannibal Lecter in the 1991 thriller, ‘The Silence of the Lambs,’ for which he won his first Oscar.