{"id":33398,"date":"2024-03-12T09:42:26","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T13:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/?p=33398"},"modified":"2024-03-12T09:42:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T13:42:26","slug":"davine-joy-randolph-praises-god-after-winning-oscar-for-the-holdovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2024\/03\/davine-joy-randolph-praises-god-after-winning-oscar-for-the-holdovers.html","title":{"rendered":"Da’Vine Joy Randolph Praises God After Winning Oscar For ‘The Holdovers’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After winning the award for Best Supporting Actress at the 2024 Academy Awards for her role in the movie “The Holdovers,” actress Da’Vine Joy Randolph stressed that “God is so good” and honored her mother. She began, “God is so good. God is so good. You know, 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 theater department. There’s something for you there. And I thank my mother for doing that.”<\/p>\n

Randolph continued, “I thank you to all the people who have stepped in my path and have been there for me. Who has 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. And I thank you. I thank you for seeing me.” She received the award for her role in “The Holdovers” as Mary Lamb, a cook at the fictional Barton Academy who just lost a son in the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n

There, she forms an unlikely bond with a damaged but brainy student and a curmudgeonly instructor, played by Paul Giamatti, who are forced to stay on campus during Christmas break. Randolph previously won awards at the Golden Globes, the BAFTAs, Critics’ Choice Awards, SAG Awards and others for the role. With her big win, the actress beat out Emily Blunt (“Oppenheimer”), Danielle Brooks (“The Color Purple”), America Ferrera (“Barbie”) and Jodie Foster (“Nyad”).<\/p>\n

Randolph\u00a0previously explained<\/a>\u00a0that she believes her career success is evidence that “God has a bigger plan.” The 37-year-old told USA Today<\/em>, “I\u2019ve been the \u2018breakthrough\u2019 in almost every project I\u2019ve done. At first, I thought that was bad, like, \u2018Dang, am I not that memorable?\u2019 But I had to reframe that in my mind: If you\u2019re fresh and new and being discovered in every project, that\u2019s a win. You can seemingly be going along and everything is great, and then you slide down. But if you keep playing, you can jump right back up. And that\u2019s life, especially in this industry. It\u2019s more about trusting that your path is your path.”<\/p>\n