Anthony Hopkins was doing the most relatable thing when he won the Oscar for Best Actor on Sunday. He was asleep in bed. Hopkins won the Best Actor trophy for ‘The Father’ at the 93rd Academy Awards, beating out frontrunner Chadwick Boseman in one of the biggest upsets of the night with many expecting the late actor to win the award posthumously for ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’. Anthony Hopkins in The Father Image Credit: IMDB Oblivious to any of this, Hopkins, who is currently in Wales, was asleep at the time when the name was announced by Joaquin Phoenix, who won the Best Actor trophy the previous year for ‘Joker’. The news was later relayed to Hopkins by his agent over the phone.