{"id":236368,"date":"2021-04-27T00:46:12","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T21:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/why-chadwick-boseman-lost-to-anthony-hopkins-at-oscars-2021\/"},"modified":"2021-04-27T00:46:12","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T21:46:12","slug":"why-chadwick-boseman-lost-to-anthony-hopkins-at-oscars-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-chadwick-boseman-lost-to-anthony-hopkins-at-oscars-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"#Why Chadwick Boseman lost to Anthony Hopkins at Oscars 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Why Chadwick Boseman lost to Anthony Hopkins at Oscars 2021<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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The Oscars are never short on surprises. Remember when the controversial \u201cGreen Book\u201d beat the favored \u201cRoma\u201d for Best Picture in 2019? Or when \u201cLa La Land\u201d was mistakenly called to the stage instead of actual victor \u201cMoonlight\u201d in 2017? Or way back in 1997, when li\u2019l \u201cShakespeare in Love\u201d\u00a0\u00a0took down big honkin\u2019 \u201cSaving Private Ryan\u201d? Usually that\u2019s all part of the fun.<\/p>\n

But to casual film fans, Sunday night\u2019s big upset packed a particularly emotional wallop: The late Chadwick Boseman lost the Best Actor prize to Anthony Hopkins.<\/p>\n

The final award of the evening, which had heretofore been Best Picture, was changed to Best Actor for the bizarre occasion. So, viewers then assumed that move was to honor Boseman, who died in August of colon cancer at age 43. But he didn\u2019t win for his role in \u201cMa Rainey\u2019s Black Bottom.\u201d Hopkins did for playing a man ailing from dementia in \u201cThe Father.\u201d Even more anticlimactic, the 83-year-old \u2014 the oldest Best Actor winner ever \u2014 was far away in Wales, and didn\u2019t deliver a speech. It was the fizzle heard around the world.<\/p>\n

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Viewers were surprised when Anthony Hopkins (left) won the Best Actor Oscar over the late Chadwick Boseman (right).<\/figcaption>
Instagram, David Lee\/ Netflix<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Some voters were shocked.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy jaw dropped,\u201d a voting member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science<\/a>s told The Post. \u201cWhat the hell was that? I was totally unaware of any sort of movement towards Anthony Hopkins within the Academy. I voted for Chadwick, even if I found the movie itself to be a bit too theatrical for me to be really passionate about it. I figured most were doing similar, and if I\u2019d heard any murmurs about voting for another nominee it was for Riz Ahmed.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Chadwick Boseman received rave reviews for his final role in \u201cMa Rainey\u2019s Black Bottom.\u201d<\/figcaption>
AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

However, similar to when a silent majority opted for Olivia Colman instead of Glenn Close or Lady Gaga in 2019, most people checked Hopkins\u2019 box this year.<\/p>\n

Joyce Eng, senior editor of the award season punditry website GoldDerby, said that the win came down, in part, to good old-fashioned Hollywood strategy \u2014 something Netflix has yet to master.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cOn paper, Chadwick Boseman app<\/a>eared to be the favorite because he won most of the precursor awards and Anthony Hopkins only had the BAFTA,\u201d Eng told The Post, noting that the \u201cMa Rainey\u2019s\u201d actor won the SAG Award and the Golden Globe. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut I think there was something in play that general<\/a> fans were not aware of, and that\u2019s the fact that \u2018The Father\u2019 was peaking at exactly the right time [for the Oscars]. Sony Pictures Classics held off releasing the film till literally the last minute in theaters. It opened Feb. 26.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMa Rainey\u2019s Black Bottom,\u201d on the other hand, dropped on Netflix back in November, during a tricky year with ample distractions.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey just knew what they were doing,\u201d Eng added of Sony.<\/p>\n

Also, let\u2019s make something clear: Like Boseman in \u201cMa Rainey\u2019s,\u201d Hopkins gives a triumphant and very deserving performance in \u201cThe Father.\u201d He\u2019s not some Oscar hog like Meryl Streep or, now, Frances McDormand. He won only once before, for \u201cThe Silence of the Lambs\u201d almost 30 years ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Welshman gave a kind speech the next day on Instagram, and paid tribute to Boseman.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAt 83 years of age, I did not expect to get this award,\u201d he said. \u201cI really didn\u2019t. I am grateful to the academy, and thank you.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I want to pay tribute to Chadwick Boseman, who was taken from us far too early,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Still, the rotten production choice of placing a category right at the end of the evening when there was a solid chance the winner \u2014 or even a proxy \u2014 might not even be in attendance was a boneheaded one. It certainly proved one thing: The accountant-held ballot count really is secret. Otherwise, they would not have changed the freakin\u2019 order of the awards. Ultimately, it left a foul taste with everybody.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love Anthony Hopkins and his performance,\u201d the Oscar voter said. \u201cBut it was a really disappointing end to the evening.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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