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Da’Vine Joy Randolph has won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her phenomenal performance inThe Holdovers. The Paul Giamatti film has been one of the most critically acclaimed features of 2023 and won numerous awards across all the reputed events. While Randolph’s win was expected given her performance in the award season so far, her acceptance speech has won many hearts.
The category of Best Supporting Actress was filled with some iconic performances this year, such as Emily Blunt fromOppenheimerand America Ferrara fromBarbie.However, Da’Vine Joy Randolph dominated the award season by winning every best-supporting actress award in the Golden Globe, BAFTA, Critics’ Choice, Independent Spirit, and SAG awards.
Da’Vine Joy Randolph’s Oscar acceptance speech wins hearts
Da’Vine Joy Randolph played the role of a cafeteria manager and a grieving mother, Mary Lamb, inThe Holdovers. The 2023 Alexander Payne directorial focuses on agroup of people forcedto spend the Christmas break in school.
The 37-year-old actress was presented the award by the past winners in the category- Regina King, Jamie Lee Curtis, Rita Moreno, Lupita Nyong’o, and Mary Steenburgen. Randolph became very emotional while accepting the award and thanked her mother for showing her the right direction. She admitted that she started as a singer and never thought about doing this career.
“God is so good. I didn’t think I was supposed to be doing this as a career. I started off as a singer. And my mother said to me, ‘Go across that street to that theatre department. There’s something for you there.’ And I thank my mother for doing that. I thank you to all the people who have stepped in my path and been there for me, who have ushered me and guided me. I am so grateful to all you beautiful people out here. For so long, I’ve always wanted to be different, and now I realize I just need to be myself.”
TheOnly Murders in the Buildingactress has also thanked all the women who were beside her and kept encouraging her. Soon after her win, the fans took over the internet to hail her Oscar speech as one of the greatest.
The fans praise Da’Vine Joy Randolph’s Oscar speech
Last year,Michelle Yeoh moved everyonewith her Oscar acceptance speech when she won the Best Actress Oscar forEverything Everywhere All At Once. Her speech stands as one of the best Oscar speeches of all time. Several renowned celebrities have given memorable Oscar speeches, and looks like Da’Vine Joy Randolph also made her name on the list.
The fans have showered love on the actress on hearing her emotional Oscar speech.
This is how you give an acceptance speech
— Happy Captain (@EODHappyCaptain)August 25, 2025
Wow so emotional 😭 👏🏻#Oscars
— 🤴🏻JALIX👑 (@JALIX568)June 01, 2025
I just need to be myself… 🙏🏾💪🏾❤️🔥
— January 27 🤗❤️ (@mpiredivine)July 17, 2025
So emotional 🥹 happy for her!
— Matt ✨ (@mattxctrl)August 01, 2025
Makes me want to tear up seeing the sincerity and passion displayed. I love seeing stuff like this.
— Eddie (@OHMYDIAZ)June 04, 2025
Emily Blunt, America Ferrara, Danielle Brooks, and Jodie Foster presented a strong competition to Randolph. The film was evenaccused of plagiarisma few days ago, but nothing could stop Da’Vine Joy Randolph from securing the win at the 96th Academy Awards.
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Subham Mandal is currently working as a content writer for FandomWire with an ardent interest in the world of pop culture. He has written more than 1000 articles on different spheres of modern pop culture and is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. He’s also an experienced student journalist having demonstrated work experience with the Times of India. He aspires to be a column writer in the future.
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