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This year s Oscars left it late to bring any genuine surprises to the table. Until, that is, Anthony Hopkins picked up the evening s final award: Best Actor for his role in
The Father.
There s no disputing that the British actor delivered an incredible performance as the titular patriarch in the film, which also picked up Best Adapted Screenplay.
Expectations were so high for the late Chadwick Boseman to pick up a posthumous award for his role in
Ma Rainey s Black Bottom,
that Hopkins had not only declined to attend the ceremony at Los Angeles s Union Station, he didn t even make it to the Covid-necessitated “international hub” at London s British Film Institute.