Anthony Hopkins has won the best actor Oscar at the 93 Academy Awards in Los Angeles, on 25 April 2021. Hopkins, 83, won for his performance in “The Father”, directed by French novelist and playwright Florian Zeller, who also wrote the acclaimed stage play “Le Père”, on which the film is based.
This was Mr Hopkins’ second Oscar for best actor, with the first in 1994 for his role as Hannibal Lecter, in “The Silence of the Lambs”. The victory makes Hopkins the oldest ever Oscar winner acting, an honour previously held by the late Christopher Plummer, who was 82 when he won for his role in the movie“Beginners” (2011).
In “The Father”, he plays a man with dementia, who refuses all assistance from his daughter, as he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances. He begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and reality, as he perceives it. The film had its world première at the Sundance Film Festival on 27 January last year, and will be released in Europe on 11 June 2021.