The weirdest Oscar race ever had one more big surprise in store Sunday night. From 1929 through 2011, a total of 2,809 Oscars were awarded, including a limited number to. Plummer, who passed away in February at 91, was 82 when he took home the Best Supporting Actor award in 2011 for his performance in Beginners. Oscars 2022 also nominated as many as ten films were nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars 2022. Oscars 2021: Anthony Hopkins shocks as best actor, 'Nomadland' wins best picture. film categories, which increased to 25 in 2012. Daniel Kaluuya won the best supporting actor award for his portrayal of Fred Hampton. The Joker actor told the crowd, 'The Academy congratulates Anthony Hopkins and accepts the Oscar on his behalf.'Īlthough Hopkins wasn't the frontrunner in this category, as many thought the Oscar would go to the late Chadwick Boseman for his performance in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, his win is a historic one. Specifically, the celebrated actor just dethroned the late Christopher Plummer as the oldest acting Oscar winner ever. Yuh-Jung Youn became the first Korean actress to win an acting Oscar, for her supporting role in Minari. Thus, presenter and last year's Best Actor winner Joaquin Phoenix accepted the award on Hopkins' behalf. Actress in a Leading Role - Charlize Theron. The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). The 83-year-old actor, who previously won an Academy Award in the same category for his work in The Silence of the Lambs, wasn't present for the awards show. Moments after Parasite won the Oscar® for Best Picture during the live ABC Telecast of The 92nd Oscars. Peter Finch was nominated for best actor at the 1977 Academy Awards for playing Howard Beale in Sidney Lumets 'Network.' He won, becoming the first actor to posthumously win an Oscar for acting. Hopkins nabbed the acting prize for his performance of Anthony, an aging man who is an unreliable narrator due to progressing memory loss, in The Father.

On Sunday, April 25, Anthony Hopkins took home the Best Actor in a Leading Role award at the 2021 Oscars.

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