In fact, Boseman lost out on the best actor prize to Anthony Hopkins for his performance in The Father.
Asked if he regretted the decision not to allow Hopkins to join by video link, Soderbergh said: “No.”
Steven Soderbergh, the film-maker who co-produced this year’s Oscars ceremony, has defended the controversial decision to switch round the running order, meaning the final prizes were best actress and best actor, with best film coming third from the end.
This eventuality, said Soderbergh, “would have been such a shattering moment” that “to come back after that would have been just impossible”.