Anthony Hopkins wins the Oscar for Best Actor

British actor Anthony Hopkins won the Best Actor Oscar Sunday for his portrayal of a patient with dementia in "The Father", adding to his rich credits a new tribute to a career in which he has embodied various personalities, including the Pope, President of the United States and a cannibalistic killer.

The 83-year-old Hopkins, who missed the awards ceremony, became the oldest actor to win a competitive Oscar nearly three decades after he won the Best Actor Oscar for his role as a thug who commits a series of murders in Jonathan Deem's 1992 "Silence of the Lamb."

This time Hopkins culminated in taking the role of an old man drowning in dementia in "The Father" by Frenchman Florian Zeller, who also won an Oscar for best screenplay for the film itself.

British Olivia Coleman assumed the role of his daughter, who becomes unable to recognize her and other members of his family, and he even imagines that his apartment is transforming.

The character he performed was given his name, Anthony, and his date of birth, which is December 31, 1937.

"There was no problem playing an elderly person because I'm so old," Hopkins told The Times.

But this role, which won him a BAFTA Award for Best Actor, influenced him.

"It made me more aware of the issue of death and the fragility of life, and since then, I don't judge people. We are all fragile and vulnerable," he said.

Hopkins noted that this film reminded him of his father's last days, adding to the newspaper, "I realized what he was feeling at the end. Fear. Untold depression, sadness and loneliness. We all pretend we are not alone, but we are all alone. Success is good. It is a way to survive but in the end, we will be." We are all alone. "

During six decades of his career in theater, television and cinema, this legendary actor has embodied various personalities, most notably the King of England (Richard the Lionheart), British Prime Minister (David Lloyd George), two American presidents (John Quincy Adams and Richard Nixon), Hitler, Danton, Isaac Rabin, Charles Dickens and Pablo Picasso and Alfred Hitchcock.

Hopkins also played diabolical roles, such as in James Ivory's "The Remains of the Day" and "Shadowlands" by his compatriot Richard Attenborough.

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