posted a video from Wales early on Monday to accept his Best Actor Oscar after not being there to do so during the Academy Awards' jaw-dropping conclusion.
Hopkins become the oldest actor to ever win an Oscar. "At 83 years of age, I did not expect to get this award," Hopkins said in the video. "I really didn't.
I'm very grateful to the Academy, and thank you. "Hopkins isn't just being humble there, as most awards prognosticators didn't anticipate this, either.
Chadwick Boseman was widely expected to posthumously win Best Actor for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, so much so that the Oscars' producers took the unusual step of placing this award at the end of the broadcast after Best Picture was already presented.
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