Oscars 2024: Da’Vine Randolph Joy wins ‘Best Supporting Actress’ for ‘The Holdovers’
Da’Vine Randolph Joy has received the ‘Best Supporting Actress’ Oscars award for her performance in Alexander Payne’s comedy-drama The Holdovers, beating the likes of America Ferrera, Emily Blunt and Jodie Foster to the prize.
After being handed the award to waves of rapturous applause, Joy went on to thank the many women in her life who have helped lead her to such success, elated after her first success at the Academy Awards. Delivering an emotional speech that went into her own past as a performer, the tearful Joy set a strong standard for the night’s acceptance speeches, stating: “I didn’t think I was supposed to be doing this as a career. I started off as a singer…For so long I’ve always wanted to be different and now I realise I just need to be myself”.
In The Holdovers, Joy plays Mary Lamb, the cafeteria manager of the school where the film takes place. Her son had attended the school but was killed in the Vietnam War after signing up for service to pay his tuition, and audiences find Mary in a state of grief.
In Far Out’s review of The Holdovers, we wrote, “Where The Holdovers so effortlessly succeeds is in its sheer simplicity, focusing all its efforts on the relationship between its three lead characters, who guide the film on a gentle exploration of the cycle of reconciliation that life demands”.
The review continued, “A plea for human connection during a seasonal period that often forces us to look inward as much as it tries to make us consider those around us, The Holdovers is an intimate love story in more ways than one.”
Joy joins an acclaimed list of recent ‘Best Supporting Actress’ Oscar winners, including Jamie Lee Curtis, Ariana DeBose, Youn Yuh-jung and Laura Dern.
Who won the Golden Globe for ‘Best Supporting Actress’?
Da’Vine Randolph Joy also won the Golden Globe award for ‘Best Supporting Actress’ for her effort in The Holdovers, having faced strong competition from the likes of Danielle Brooks of The Color Purple, Jodie Foster of Nyad, Julianne Moore of May December, and Rosamund Pike of Saltburn.
Joy’s performance as school chef Mary Lamb in Alexander Payne’s comedy-drama held off her rivals, and she joined a list of historical winners, including Meryl Streep, Kate Winslet and Angela Lansbury.
Check out the trailer for The Holdovers below.
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