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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.
He also won the BAFTA Best Actor award in Britain this year for
"The Father."
Boseman, best known for the superhero movie "Black Panther," had
been widely expected to claim the best actor prize for his role
as an ambitious trumpet player in 1920s jazz drama, "Ma Rainey's
Black Bottom" after winning a slew of awards in the run-up to
the Oscars.
Boseman died in August 2020, having kept secret a four-year
battle with colon cancer.
In "The Father," Hopkins plays an aging man who has refused any
help from his family and who is beginning to doubt what is real
and what is imagined. It is adapted from a 2012 stage play of
the same name.
Born in Wales, the soft-spoken Hopkins is the son of a baker
whose career has seen him playing characters ranging from the
late U.S. President Richard Nixon to artist Pablo Picasso, Pope
Benedict and director Alfred Hitchcock.
But Hopkins said his first love was music and that he came to
acting as a profession by accident. He is also an accomplished
pianist and artist who has lived for years in California.
(Reporting by Nichola Groom; Editing by Howard Goller)
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