Sandra Bullock: From Arlington, a graduate of Washington & Lee, she won the Best Actress award in 2010 for her role in “The Blind Side.” She was nominated again in 2014 for her role in “Gravity.” Watch a video of the presentation of the Oscar here.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. For an actor so intense, so rigorously unsentimental, this is his Lear.”īesides Boseman, the other nominees were Riz Ahmed, Gary Oldman and Steven Yeun.Ĭatherine Gaschka in Paris and Louise Dixon and Naomi Koppel in London contributed to this report.įor complete coverage of this year’s Oscars, visit: Ĭopyright 2021 The Associated Press. In Associated Press writer Jake Coyle’s review of “The Father,” he called it riveting “to see Hopkins play all these ever-fluctuating turns of mood. He'd been knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1993, giving him the right to use “Sir” before his name.
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Hopkins, who started in the theater but found it ill-fitting, focused on movie roles after getting his screen break playing Richard the Lionheart in “The Lion in Winter” in 1968. “I’m still looking over my shoulder thinking somebody will say, ‘Sorry, Tony, you’re in the wrong business.’” “I wanted to be a musician, but I drifted into this business by mistake,” he said. In a 2016 interview with The Associated Press, Hopkins said an acting career wasn’t in the plan. Hopkins has received four other Oscar nominations, including last year for his role as Benedict in “The Two Popes” as the eponymous president in “Nixon” John Quincy Adams in the slavery drama “Amistad,” and a loyal butler in “The Remains of the Day.” The “Black Panther" star had been diagnosed with the disease four years earlier and kept it private as he continued working. It is Hopkins' first Oscar since he was victorious for playing Hannibal Lecter.ĭespite his pedigree, Hopkins was a surprise winner of the Academy Award for best actor for his work on “The Father,” playing the role of a man fighting dementia.īoseman had been expected to win the award, which, in a very rare move from the academy, was the last to be handed out this year instead of best picture.īoseman was nominated for “Ma Rainey's Black Bottom,” his final film before cancer claimed his life last August at age 43. “I really did not expect this, so I feel very privileged and honored.” “I want to pay tribute to Chadwick Boseman, who was taken from us far too early,” he said. Hours later, Hopkins made a belated acceptance speech in a short video message posted on Instagram, standing in front of the rolling green fields of his native Wales. Presenter Joaquin Phoenix’s reading of his name was the last dramatic moment of a most unusual ceremony. Hopkins’ win was anticlimactic on a show where he wasn’t present to accept the trophy. The 83-year-old Hopkins took the award for his performance in “The Father,” becoming the oldest actor or actress to win an Oscar, edging out Christopher Plummer’s supporting-actor win at age 82 in the 2010 film “Beginners.” LOS ANGELES (AP) - Anthony Hopkins has honored the late Chadwick Boseman after winning the best actor Oscar, hailing his fellow performer as a man “taken from us far too early.”
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