Viewers had plenty of reasons to switch off before the end of the ceremony, which cut all its usual fanfare and let winners talk for as long as they wanted.
It will go down in history as the worst Oscar ending since La La Land — I mean Moonlight — won the Academy Award for best film.
It was not that Hopkins was not deserving of the award, but rather that the ceremony had clearly been changed in anticipation of Boseman's win. His widow, who has accepted previous awards on his behalf, Taylor Simone Ledward, was also at the Academy Awards.
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