Anthony Hopkins won for his performance in ‘The Father,’ becoming the oldest person to ever receive the award. Boseman was also nominated for his final role.
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
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The winners for best makeup and hairstyling Mia Neal, Jamika Wilson and Sergio Lopez-Rivera for their work on the film Ma Rainey s Black Bottom,” included Neal and Wilson as the first Black women to be nominated and to win the award.
“I can picture Black trans women standing up here, and Asian sisters. And our Latina sisters, and Indigenous women. And I know that one day it won t be unusual or groundbreaking it will just be normal,” Neal said in her acceptance speech.
The groundbreaking wins came among other historic nominations. Steven Yeun was the first Asian American to be nominated for best actor for his performance in “Minari,” alongside Riz Ahmed, who was the first Muslim to be nominated for the award for his work in “Sound of Metal.”
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
Netizens blasts the Oscars for using Chadwick Boseman as bait
Anthony Hopkins won Best Male Actor and he was not even around to receive his award.
April 26, 2021 10:03 BST
Netizens are accusing the Oscars 2021 of using Chadwick Boseman to gain viewership as it had reportedly tipped him to win Best Male Lead days ahead of Sunday s awards night.
Predictions were for the 43-year old to receive a posthumous Academy Award for his portrayal of Levee Green in Ma Rainey s Black Bottom. The expectations were high given his various trophies in the lead-up to the ceremony.
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