Anthony Hopkins Win Was the Biggest Anticlimax in Oscars History
On 4/26/21 at 4:37 AM EDT
Sir Anthony Hopkins Best Actor win at this year s Academy Awards proved anticlimactic when the Welsh actor did not show up to accept his award, ending the show on an abrupt note. The announcement also led to controversy, as disappointed viewers accused the Academy of baiting expectations of a posthumous win for late actor Chadwick Boseman.
Hopkins won the Oscar for his role as an English man struggling with dementia in
The Father, beating out Boseman in
Ma Rainey s Black Bottom, Riz Ahmed in
Sound of Metal, Gary Oldman in