Anthony Hopkins

Acting

Born 1937-12-31 Margam, Port Talbot, Glamorgan, Wales, UK 229 credits Academy Awards 3 Primetime Emmy Awards 1 Golden Globe Awards 2 BAFTA Awards 4 Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor 2 Saturn Awards 1 Ordre des Arts et des Lettres 1 European Film Award for Best Actor 1

Awards

Won 3 Academy Awards

Academy Awards 3 won · 4 nominated

2021 Best Actor Won The Father
2020 Best Supporting Actor Nominated The Two Popes
1998 Best Supporting Actor Nominated Amistad
1996 Best Actor Nominated Nixon
1994 Best Actor Nominated The Remains of the Day
1992 Academy Awards Won
1992 Best Actor Won The Silence of the Lambs

Primetime Emmy Awards 1 won

1981 Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie Won The Bunker

Golden Globe Awards 2 won

2006 Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award Won
— Golden Globe Awards Won

BAFTA Awards 4 won

2008 BAFTA Fellowship Won
1992 Best Actor in a Leading Role Won The Silence of the Lambs
1991 Best Actor in a Leading Role Won The Silence of the Lambs
1973 Best Actor Won War and Peace

Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor 2 won

1993 Best Actor Won The Remains of the Day
1991 Best Actor Won The Silence of the Lambs

Saturn Awards 1 won

— Saturn Awards Won

Ordre des Arts et des Lettres 1 won

— Ordre des Arts et des Lettres Won

European Film Award for Best Actor 1 won

2021 Best Actor Won The Father

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Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins CBE (born December 31, 1937) is a Welsh actor, film director, and film producer. He is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, four British Academy Film Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards and a British Academy Television Award. He has also received an honorary Golden Globe Award and the BAFTA Fellowship from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. In 1993, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to the arts, and in 2003, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his achievements in the motion picture industry. After graduating from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in 1957, Hopkins trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and was then spotted by Laurence Olivier who invited him to join the Royal National Theatre in 1965. Productions at the National included King Lear, his favourite Shakespeare play. His last stage play was a West End production of M. Butterfly in 1989. In 1968, Hopkins achieved recognition in film, playing Richard the Lionheart in The Lion in Winter. In the mid-1970s, Richard Attenborough, who directed five Hopkins films, called him "the greatest actor of his generation." In 1991, he portrayed Hannibal Lecter in the psychological horror film The Silence of the Lambs, winning the Academy Award for Best Actor. He reprised the role in its sequel Hannibal and the prequel Red Dragon. Other notable films include The Elephant Man (1980), 84 Charing Cross Road (1987), Howards End (1992), Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), Shadowlands (1993), Legends of the Fall (1994), Meet Joe Black (1998), The Mask of Zorro (1998), Thor (2011), Thor: The Dark World (2013), Transformers: The Last Knight (2017), and Thor: Ragnarok (2017). He received four more Academy Award nominations for The Remains of the Day (1993), Nixon (1995), Amistad (1997) and The Two Popes (2019) before winning a fourth BAFTA Award and a second Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of an elderly man diagnosed with dementia in The Father (2020), becoming the oldest Best Actor Oscar winner to date. Since making his television debut with the BBC in 1967, Hopkins has continued to appear on television. In 1973 he received a British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for his performance in War and Peace. In 2015, he starred in the BBC film The Dresser alongside Ian McKellen. In 2018, he starred in King Lear opposite Emma Thompson. In 2016 and 2018, he starred in the HBO television series Westworld, for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.