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Da’Vine Joy Randolph has won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Randolph took home the Oscar on Sunday for her role as the head chef of a boarding school who mourns her son.
“The Holdovers,” set in the 1970s, features an eclectic cast of clashing personalities who, for one reason or another, stay over the Christmas holidays at the nearly empty boarding school, where they learn about kinship and community.
Randolph plays Mary Lamb, the school cafeteria manager who recently lost her son during the Vietnam War, opposite Paul Giamatti as Paul Hunham, an unpleasant and unpopular teacher, and Dominic Sessa, who plays the distraught but talented student Angus Tully.
Randolph has already received numerous accolades for his role in “The Holdovers,” including a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, a Critics Choice Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for his work on the film.
At the Academy Awards, Randolph faced off against Emily Blunt in “Oppenheimer,” Danielle Brooks in “The Color Purple,” America Ferrera in “Barbie” and Jodie Foster in “Nyad.”
In addition to her strong role in “The Holdovers,” Randolph also appeared as music legend Mahalia Jackson in the film “Rustin,” for which star Colman Domingo is nominated for best actor.
Randolph joins the ranks of fewer than a dozen black women who have earned best supporting actress honors in the 95-year history of the Academy Awards.
She first received widespread recognition for her role as Oda Mae Brown in the 2012 stage production of “Ghost,” an adaptation of the 1990 film starring Whoopi Goldberg (who won the Oscar for best supporting actress for her portrayal of the same character).