Anthony Hopkins, 83, becomes oldest star to win Best Actor Award at 2021 Oscars

Hopkins won the Best Actor honor at Sunday's Academy Awards for his starring role in The Father.

The Welsh actor made history on April 25, with his second Oscar victory, becoming the oldest star to win an Academy Award for Best Actor award after becoming the oldest Best Actor nominee when the 2021 Oscar nominations were announced in March.

He beat out fellow nominees Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal), Chadwick Boseman (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom), Gary Oldman (Mank), and Steven Yeun (Minari).

Presenter Joaquin Phoneix, who won the category last year for his performance in Joker, accepted the award on an absent Hopkins' behalf.

Anthony Hopkins won his first at the 64th Academy Awards, earning the Best Actor award for his iconic performance as an expert psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter in the 1992 psychological thriller The Silence of the Lambs.

See list of some winners below.

Best Picture

"Nomadland" — Winner

"The Father"

"Judas and the Black Messiah"

"Mank"

"Minari"

"Promising Young Woman"

"Sound of Metal"

"The Trial of the Chicago 7"

Best Director

Chloé Zhao, "Nomadland" — Winner

Thomas Vinterberg, "Another Round"

David Fincher, "Mank"

Lee Isaac Chung, "Minari"

Emerald Fennell, "Promising Young Woman"

Actress in a Leading Role

Frances McDormand, "Nomadland" — Winner

Viola Davis, "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom"

Andra Day, "The United States vs. Billie Holiday"

Vanessa Kirby, "Pieces of a Woman"

Carey Mulligan, "Promising Young Woman"

Actress in a Supporting Role

Yuh-jung Youn, "Minari" — Winner

Maria Bakalova, "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm"

Glenn Close, "Hillbilly Elegy"

Olivia Colman, "The Father"

Amanda Seyfried, "Mank"

Actor in a Supporting Role

Daniel Kaluuya, "Judas and the Black Messiah" — Winner

Sha Baron Cohen, "The Trial of the Chicago 7"

Paul Raci, "Sound of Metal"

LaKeith Stanfield, "Judas and the Black Messiah"

Animated Feature Film

"Soul" — Winner

"Onward"

"Over the Moon"

"A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon"

"Wolfwalkers"

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