OSCAR Viewers Floored After Anthony Hopkins Takes Best Actor Over 'Shoo-in' Chadwick Boseman: 'BOSEMAN WAS ROBBED!'

The stars appeared to be aligned. For the first time in memory, the denouement of Sunday night's Oscars ceremony featured not the award for Best Picture, but rather, the honor for Best Actor. That placement seemed to be a clear indication that the Oscar would go to the late Chadwick Boseman for his heralded performance in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom — in what would've undoubtedly been an emotional, touching end to the broadcast.