Many people felt a serious loss after it was announced in 2020 that Black Panther’s Chadwick Boseman died at 43 following a four-year battle with colon cancer. His final movie, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, garnered him a posthumous Oscar nomination, but he lost the Best Actor award to Anthony Hopkins. Now, Boseman’s widow, Simone Ledward Boseman, is speaking about what she would have said if her husband had won that Academy Award.
X (then called Twitter) wasn’t happy with Boseman’s Oscar loss. That's somewhat understandable, given it would have been a beautiful celebration of the late actor’s final performance. Not only that but, considering that Best Actor was made the final award of that year's Academy Awards, it seemed certain that the evening was being set up to culminate with a win for Boseman. Ledward Boseman spoke to THR, as part of its oral history on the COVID-tinged ceremony of 2021, about how she would have honored her late husband had he won a posthumous Oscar:
