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Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins CBE (born December 31, 1937) is a Welsh and American 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.
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Blackwatch is a 2025 American dystopian superhero film based on Jaxon Harmon's superhero team of the same name, produced by Legendary Pictures, The Stone Quarry, and RatPac-Dune Entertainment and distributed by Lionsgate Films. It is the first installment in the Blackwatch film series. Directed by Ruben Fleischer from a screenplay by Zack Snyder and David S. Goyer, the film features an ensemble cast that consists of Dove Cameron, Rina Sawayama, Ethan Hawke, Omari Hardwick, Jude Law, and Michael Fassbender as the title characters, alongside Antonio Banderas, Michael Shannon, with Laurence Fishburne, and Anthony Hopkins. In the film, set in a dystopian world where many superheroes are actually corrupt and unreasonable beneath their public images, a pair of Right-wingers, joined by a former human turned alien, reluctantly team up to destroy an Artificially Intelligent entity created by the public heroes called "Peacekeeper", forming the most unlikely heroic team in the process. Blackwatch premiered in New York City on November 11th, 2025, and opened in theaters on December 6th. The film received positive reviews from critics and audiences, who praised its visuals, style and action sequences, along with the effective use of its 3-hour runtime, performances (particularly Cameron and Sawayama), execution and Hans Zimmer's musical score. It was also a box-office success, grossing $881 million at the worldwide box-office. A sequel is in development.
