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'Holdovers' star plays down Oscar hype after latest win at Spirit Awards

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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:950px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/Da&#x27;Vine-Joy-Randolph.jpg" style="width:950px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">American actor and singer Da&#x27;Vine Joy Randolph, winner of the Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role award for &#x27;The Holdovers,&#x27; poses in the press room during the 30th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at the Shrine Auditorium &amp; Expo Hall in Los Angeles, California, USA, 24 February 2024. EPA-EFE/CAROLINE BREHMAN</span></span></span></div><p>LOS ANGELES, United States - Da&#x27;Vine Joy Randolph has won every major prize going this film award season for her supporting role in &quot;The Holdovers&quot; -- but she insists she is taking nothing for granted as the Oscars loom.</p><p>Randolph, who stars in the 1970s-set indie drama as a cook and grieving mother stranded at a New England prep school over the winter holidays, claimed her latest win Sunday at the Film Independent Spirit Awards.</p><p>Having already won a Golden Globe, Critics Choice Award, a BAFTA and much more, she now seems poised for best supporting actress Oscar, which will be handed out in just two weeks.</p><p>&quot;This has been a really surreal, powerful time for me to see dreams manifesting into reality one by one,&quot; she told AFP backstage at the Santa Monica award show, which honors low- and mid-budget movies.</p><p>&quot;I don&#x27;t expect anything. I&#x27;m not betting on anything. I&#x27;m just here present, and every single one surprises me. I take nothing for granted.</p><p>&quot;In regards to the Oscars I don&#x27;t, truthfully. I&#x27;m just happy to be invited into the building. No more, no less.&quot;</p><p>Randolph, 37, who grew up in Philadelphia, is a highly trained stage actor who attended Yale drama school after initially pursuing classical and opera singing.</p><p>After turns on Broadway and the West End, she has appeared on the big screen opposite stars such as Eddie Murphy in &quot;Dolemite Is My Name&quot; and Robin Williams in &quot;The Angriest Man In Brooklyn.&quot;</p><p>But it is Alexander Payne&#x27;s &quot;The Holdovers&quot; that has propelled Randolph into Hollywood&#x27;s A-list, with few if any pundits betting against her at the Oscars.</p><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sOxdDqyn-q8?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div><p>The film is in the running for five Academy Awards overall, including best picture, with Randolph&#x27;s co-star Paul Giamatti also a strong contender for best actor.</p><p>&quot;What am I expecting? I don&#x27;t know!&quot; she joked after her Spirit Award win.</p><p>&quot;The process has been a beautiful one. It&#x27;s been a really great time.&quot;</p><p>Elsewhere at the Spirit Awards on Sunday, France&#x27;s &quot;Anatomy of a Fall&quot; won best international film, and &quot;American Fiction&quot; won best screenplay.</p><p>&quot;The Holdovers&quot; also won best cinematography.</p><p>Movies with budgets over $30 million are not considered for the Film Independent Spirit Awards -- making it one rare award show this year at which Christopher Nolan&#x27;s &quot;Oppenheimer&quot; could not dominate the prizes.</p><p>Oscars voting ends on Tuesday, and the season-capping 96th Academy Awards take place March 10.</p><div><strong>amz/st</strong></div><div><strong>© Agence France-Presse</strong></div>

<p>Da'Vine Joy Randolph has won every major prize going this film award season for her supporting role in "The Holdovers" -- but she insists she is taking nothing for granted as the Oscars loom.</p>

Da'Vine Joy Randolph has won every major prize going this film award season for her supporting role in "The Holdovers" -- but she insists she is taking nothing for granted as the Oscars loom.