Just about everybody in the acting community and beyond was stunned that Chadwick Boseman didn’t win the best actor Oscar for his part in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” – except his family.
The late actor’s brother said Monday that the family did not consider Boseman snubbed by the Academy as many had claimed, and they lauded Sir Anthony Hopkins’ win for his portrayal of a man suffering from memory loss in “The Father.”
Hopkins was as surprised as anybody, and the 83-year-old actor said as much in accepting his award from his native Wales, giving his fellow nominee a shout-out in a videotaped message.
“I did not expect to get this award,” he said on Instagram.
Every nominated actor was deserving, Boseman’s brother Derrick Boseman told TMZ, adding that the family was not upset or agitated at the omission.
While an Oscar would have been an achievement, Derrick Boseman told TMZ, it was never something his late brother, who died last year at 43 after a private battle with colon cancer, obsessed over. He “always described them to me as a campaign,” he told TMZ.
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