Da’Vine Joy Randolph wins the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress 2024 for The Holdovers

Da’Vine Joy Randolph crowned her successful awards season by securing the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress on Sunday, for her role in The Holdovers. Randolph’s Oscars triumph comes on the back of supporting actress honours at a host of ceremonies in 2024, including the Golden Globes, BAFTA Awards, Screen Actors Guild Awards and Critics’ Choice Awards.

Randolph tops off Best Picture-nominated Holdovers

Directed by Alexander Payne, The Holdovers is the epitome of the dramatic comedy, a film that ingeniously tells the story of Paul Hunham, a peculiar history teacher who is forced to spend Christmas vacation at the boarding school where he teaches. There, he remains with a handful of wayward students.

Alongside all of them is Mary Lamb, played by Randolph. Barton Academy’s cafeteria manager, Lamb is mourning the loss of her son, a former student of the school, who has just died in Vietnam. A fim that was among 2024′s Best Picture nominees, The Holdovers is a beautiful and varied puzzle - and Randolph’s performance completes it.

“Now I realise I just need to be myself”

“For so long, I’ve always wanted to be different and now I realise I just need to be myself,” Randolph told audience members in an emotional acceptance speech at Los Angeles’ Dolby Theatre.

Technical details

Title: The Holdovers

Year: 2023

Duration: 130 minutes

Country: United States

Director: Alexander Payne

Screenplay: David Hemingson

Music: Mark Orton

Cinematography: Eigil Bryld

Cast: Paul Giamatti, Dominic Sessa, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Carrie Preston, Gillian Vigman, Tate Donovan, Michael Malvesti, Pamela Jayne Morgan, Greg Chopootian, Dustin Tucker, Ian Lyons, Bill Mootos, Howard Breslau

Production companies: Miramax

Distributor: Focus Features

Genre: Dramatic Comedy

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