Chadwick Boseman was predicted to win Best Actor posthumously for his role as Levee Green in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”, but surprisingly he lost to Anthony Hopkins in “The Father”.
Boseman had previously won at the Critics Choice, Golden Globes and SAG Awards where his wife, Simone Ledward Boseman, accepted on his behalf.
The award show seemingly rearranged the format, leaving Best Actor to last with the assumption it would end on a high note as Boseman won.
However, the award went to Hopkins who didn’t even show up to accept the trophy resulting in a very anti-climatic ending. The only other person to win Best Actor posthumously was Peter Finch who died two months before the 1977 Oscars for “Network”.
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