Anthony Hopkins pays tribute to Chadwick Boseman in Oscars acceptance speech

Anthony Hopkins recently won the Best Actor Award at the 93rd Academy Awards. The veteran actor carved his name in history for being the oldest actor to win an acting Oscar at the age of 83.

Oscar win via Zoom, but the Academy refused.The actor won the award for Best Actor at the 93rd Academy Awards on Sunday (April 25), and was singled out as one of the only winners who was not present in Los Angeles or at one of the Oscars hubs around the world.Hopkins’ absence was particularly notable as the award for Best Actor was presented last (where usually it would be the award for Best Picture) and many said the night ended on an “anti-climactic” note.A new report in the New York Times

ABC is offering an explanation for the 2021 Academy Awards ceremony’s anticlimactic ending.

Anthony Hopkins shared his gratitude to his fans and remembered Chadwick Boseman in a video message released Monday after he won Male Lead Actor at the recent Oscar Awards. The "Hannibal Lecter" star was not around to personally receive his award during Sunday night's ceremony.

Video: Sir Anthony Hopkins hails Chadwick Boseman in Oscars speech from Wales (PA Media)Mads Mikkelsen kept Rihanna's nails as video shoot keepsakeEd Sheeran working on new music after 18-month hiatusLittle Mix join forces with Saweetie on first new music since Jesy Nelson's exitIggy Azalea signs up for Celebrity Dating GameKylie Minogue: There's similarities between selling wine and music "I want to pay tribute to Chadwick Boseman, who was taken from us far too early.

Anthony Hopkins woke up on Monday a double Oscar winner, a surprise to many, including the Welsh actor himself. In a brief video posted to his Instagram, The Father star, who is currently in his native Wales, acknowledged his win and gave the acceptance speech he wasn't able to on Sunday evening and he made a point of paying tribute to fellow best actor nominee, the late Chadwick Boseman.

An executive at ABC is speaking out about the controversial ending to the 2021 Oscars, which included not only ending on Best Actor, and not Best Picture, as has been tradition, but also, not giving the award to Chadwick Boseman in what was built up to be a climactic moment.

Oscars upsets are always divisive, but a LOT of people took this one personally.

Chadwick Boseman in his acceptance speech for Best Actor. The two stars were up against each other in the same category – Hopkins for The Father and Boseman for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom – but it was the legendary Welsh actor who (surprisingly) came out on top to secure the second Oscar of his career.

No matter what you think about last night’s Oscars, one thing is for sure—it ended in a very peculiar way. Typically, the show ends on the Best Picture award, which is the biggest of the night.

to Instagram. “And at 83 years of age, I did not expect to get this award, I really didn’t.

The Welsh actor was one of the big winners at the 2021 OscarsAnthony Hopkins became the oldest winner of an acting award at the Academy Awards on Sunday night. Speaking from his home country the veteran Welsh actor, 83, paid tribute to fellow nominee Chadwick Boseman who had been posthumously nominated for the award.

Father star was asleep in bed during Given that it was 4 A.M. in Wales, where he lives–and there's a global pandemic–it's pretty understandable Hopkins decided to get a good night's sleep instead of trekking out to a live remote location.

Anthony Hopkins woke up to some surprising news! The 83-year-old actor won the Best Actor Award at the 2021 Oscars on Sunday night for his role in, closing out the show in an anti-climatic moment as he did not choose to attend.His win was a shocking upset as many had predicted actor Chadwick Boseman, who died last August of a cancer battle, would posthumously win.

Anthony Hopkins paid tribute to the late Chadwick Boseman as he spoke out about his Oscars win in an Instagram video message Monday.

Angelique Jackson Anthony Hopkins has weighed in on his surprise Oscar win, accepting the award from home in a short video. The message, posted early Monday morning, featured a smiling, yet clearly surprised Hopkins thanking the Academy and sharing a heartfelt salute to the late Chadwick Boseman.“Here I am in my homeland in Wales,” Hopkins said in the video.

The Oscars 2021 has come to an end and brought with it an exhilarating set of winners. In a stark contrast to the annual award show, this year the scaled-down Oscars 2021 stood out on many levels.

Daniel Kaluuya has addressed the hilarious comment he made about his parents having sex during his Oscars acceptance speech. The British actor took home the Best Supporting Actor trophy for his role as Black Panther Party chairman Fred Hampton in Judas and the Black Messiah, and brought some much needed levity to the otherwise awkward ceremony.