Best Actor for The Father by Florian Zeller. And triumphant in the Morettian race. Do I notice more whether I am coming or not? Anthony Hopkins won – at a distance, since he didn’t move from his Wales – the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his role in The Fatherin the 93rd Academy Awards, held in Los Angeles on Sunday, April 25, 2021. In the film, the directorial debut of the French writer and playwright Zeller, the elderly father of Olivia Colman, suffering from senile dementia. Only on Monday morning the actor (already winner of an Oscar in 1992 for his Hannibal Lecter de Ithe silence of the lambs), he entrusted his emotion to his Instagram account in a short video, in the background the green Welsh hills: Hello, I’m here in my homeland in Wales and at 83 I didn’t expect to take this award. I am grateful to the Academy and thank you. I pay tribute to Chadwick Boseman who was taken away from us too soon, and again, thank you all. I really didn’t expect it, I feel honored. Thank you.
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With this victory, in fact, Hopkins snatches the primacy of oldest winner ever to Christopher Plummer, who owned it before him and was 82 when he collected the statuette. The Father he tells with great delicacy the decline of a father towards senile dementia, against which he fights with strength, anger and dignity, and the impotence of his daughter, Olivia Colman, who fills him with attention. Hopkins, who has also just been awarded a Bafta, has been nominated four more times for Oscars: for What remains of the day (1993), Intrigues of Power – Nixon (1995), Friendship (1997) and as a supporting actor in the film The two popes (2019).
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The beginnings
His is an extraordinary career. Born on December 31, 1937 on the edge of Margam, on the south coast of Wales, the son of a housewife and a baker (the other day he posted a video on Twitter in which he recites a poem about his grave) he studied acting, landing in the 1957 to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art di Londra. Lawrence Olivier to notice him, he invites him to join the company of the National Theater. A lot of stage and roles in TV movies, it stands out on the big screen with performances like the one in The Elephant Man (1980), directed by David Lynch.
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Success as Hannibal Lecter
But the real success came in 1991 with the cult The silence of the lambs by Jonathan Demme, in which he plays one of the most famous villains in the history of cinema, lo cannibal psychoanalyst Hannibal Lecter, alongside Jodie Foster as FBI agent Clarica M. Starling. On stage only sixteen minutes but unforgettable, as unforgettable as his joke I ate his liver with a nice plate of broad beans and a good Chianti, capable of summarizing in a few words the character of Lecter. He will return to play the role of Lecter in two other films: one, from 2001, Hannibal, directed by Ridley Scott, and Red Dragon, from 2002, directed by Brett Ratner.
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Alcohol addiction
For many years, he said himself, Hopkins had to struggle with alcohol addiction: he decided to stop drinking on December 29, 1975, after waking up in an Arizona hotel room with no idea how he got there. He said he attended one meeting of anonymous alcoholicsHe hasn’t touched a drop of alcohol since. And I didn’t even feel the need. When I asked for help and realized that I was not alone, but that there were thousands of people like me, all my fears started to melt away.
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The career after The Silence of the Lambs
Very attached to the memorable role of Hannibal Lecter, he has not remained a slave to it. About eighty films, genres and authors at the antipodes. Recites in Ore disperate, in the role of the husband of Mimi Rogers, then in Dracula (1992) by Francis Ford Coppola, and in Casa Howard (1992) by James Ivory. It is part of the biopic Charlot, but received an Oscar nomination and the David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actor only for What remains of the day (1993). For Oliver Stone becomes the US president Richard Nixon in The intrigues of power (with which he receives another Oscar nomination as a leading actor). In 1997 he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the Oscars for Drama Friendship di Steven Spielberg.
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He starred in it The mask of Zorro (1998), I saw Joe Black (1998) e Instinct – Primal instinct (1999). A series of films follow and in 2010 he took part in You will meet the man of your dreams (2010), directed by Woody Allen. He then worked with director Darren Aronofsky on Noah and then in thrillers Blackway (2015), Premonitions (2015), Conspiracy – The conspiracy (2016) e Autobahn – Out of control (2016). In 2017 he starred in Thor: Ragnarok and in Transformers – The Last Knight. Last effort on the screen The Father, with which he won his second Oscar. A noir is coming out, The virtuoso.
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