Da'Vine Joy Randolph Calls The Holdovers an 'Absolute Dream' as She Wins Supporting Actress at Golden Globes

Da’Vine Joy Randolph in The Holdovers is the 2024 Golden Globes' pick for best supporting actress in a movie. 

Also in the running were Emily Blunt for Oppenheimer, Danielle Brooks for The Color Purple, Jodie Foster for Nyad, Julianne Moore for May December, and Rosamund Pike for Saltburn.

For her work as Mary Lamb, a cook and grieving mother at the fictional Barton Academy in The Holdovers, Randolph has earned her first Golden Globe recognition. The 37-year-old Only Murders in the Building actress won the National Board of Review's supporting actress title, as well as a shared Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award with Are You There God? It's Me Margaret star Rachel McAdams.

"To Alexander Payne, thank you for giving me the opportunity to portray this beautiful and flawed woman," Randolph said in her speech. She added that her "partners in crime," costars Paul Giamatti and Dominic Sessa, were "an absolute dream to work with, and I thank you for making me a better artist because of it."

Randolph added that her character Mary has "changed my life — you have made me feel seen in so many ways that I've never imagined, and I hope I've helped you all find your inner Mary. Because there's a little bit of her in all of us."

The Holdovers, directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Alexander Payne and written by David Hemingson, was hailed by critics as an instant holiday classic. 

Barbie led the film nominations with nine total, followed by Oppenheimer with eight and both Killers of the Flower Moon and Poor Things with seven. On the TV side, Succession's final season led with nine nominations, followed by The Bear and Only Murders in the Building, with five nods apiece.

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Also in the supporting actress category, Blunt, 40, is no stranger to the Golden Globes, with seven total nominations stretching back to 2007’s Gideon’s Daughter — her one win. The British actress’s work as the real-life Kitty Oppenheimer helped make Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer one of 2023’s biggest hits and the highest grossing biopic of all time. The film also notched Golden Globe recognition in top categories and for costars Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr. 

Although she’s achieved accolades throughout her career, including a Screen Actors Guild win for A Quiet Place, Blunt has never been nominated for an Academy Award. That could change Jan. 23 with the Oscar nominations announcement. 

A first-time Golden Globe nominee, Brooks, 34, is one of two nominations for The Color Purple, alongside lead actress Fantasia Barrino. The Blitz Bazawule-directed movie musical is the latest adaptation of the hit Alice Walker novel, following the 1985 Steven Spielberg film and 2005 Broadway show. 

The Orange Is the New Black star plays the headstrong Sofia, played in the original film by Oprah Winfrey, who went on to become an executive producer on this new version of the beloved story. Brooks also played the character in the musical’s Broadway revival beginning in 2015, which earned her a Tony Award nomination. 

At the Golden Globes, Foster, 61, has an impressive track record: nine nominations, with three wins for 1989's The Accused, 1992's The Silence of the Lambs and 2021's The Mauritanian, plus a Cecil B. DeMille Award honor in 2013. 

The two-time Oscar winner plays the real-life Bonnie Stoll, best friend and supportive coach to Diana Nyad, in the Netflix biopic about Nyad’s dangerous marathon swims from Cuba to Florida. As Nyad, costar Annette Bening is also among this year’s Golden Globe nominees.

May December continues Moore’s decades-long streak of Golden Globe recognition, totaling 10 nominations and stretching back to a special ensemble cast prize for 1994's Short Cuts. Her work as Sarah Palin in 2013 TV movie Game Change and in her Oscar-winning 2015 movie Still Alice notched her statuettes.

Costarring fellow Globe nominees Natalie Portman and Charles Melton, Todd Haynes’ May December is loosely inspired by the real-life Mary Kay Letourneau scandal. Moore, 63, plays a woman in a controversial relationship that began when her husband (played by Melton) was only 13, while Portman plays an actress set to portray her in a film.

Saltburn, from writer-director Emerald Fennell, has made Pike a four-time Golden Globe nominee. The British star, 44, earned a win in 2021 for the comedic I Care a Lot.

In the twisted thriller Saltburn, Pike wowed critics as the fabulous yet daft Lady Elspeth Catton opposite fellow Globe nominee Barry Keoghan as the devious Oliver Quick. 

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