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Da'Vine Joy Randolph emotionally kicked off the Oscars as she broke into tears as she earned the coveted Actress in a Supporting Role for The Holdovers.
The talented 37-year-old actress beat out stiff competition including Emily Blunt, Oppenheimer, Danielle Brooks, The Color Purple, America Ferrera, Barbie, and Jodie Foster, Nyad.
She had tears running down her face as she earned a standing ovation for her crowning moment as she began her speech by saying: 'God is so good. God is so good.
'You know -- I -- 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.
'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.'
Da'Vine Joy Randolph emotionally kicked off the Oscars as she broke into tears as she earned the coveted Actress in a Supporting Role for The Holdovers
Da'vine definitely did not forget where she comes from as she thanked her acing coach Ron Van Lieu.
She said: 'Ron, I thank you. When I was the only black girl in that class, when you saw me and you told me I was enough, and when I told you, I don't see myself, you said, that's fine, we're going to forge our own path. You're going to lay a trail for yourself. I'm so grateful to all the women who have been by my side, Colleen, Barbara, Tracy Brennan, Sarah Fargo.
'I have to give a special shoutout to my publicist. I know you said don't say anything about your publicist, but you don't have a publicist like mine. I'm forever grateful. I pray to god that I get to do this more than once. I thank you for seeing me. Have a blessed night. Thank you so much.'
In the film she portrays Mary Lamb who is the head cook at Barton Academy boarding school and is a bereaved mother.
Da'Vine has proved to be unbeatable as she also earned major Awards Season wins at the Screen Actors Guild, Golden Globes, and Critics' Choice Awards.
The 96th Academy Awards honors the best films of 2023 - with the glittering ceremony held at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.
The most hotly anticipated movies of the past year - Barbie and Oppenheimer - lead the nominations.
Oppenheimer has bagged 13 nods, including best picture and best actor for Cillian Murphy - who is favorite to win the major category after scooping a BAFTA, a Golden Globe and SAG award for his role as physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer.
The impressive total - which also includes best supporting actor and actress for Robert Downey Jr. and Emily Blunt, as well as best director for Christopher Nolan - is just one nomination short of the all-time record set by Titanic in 1998.
Last year's other smash hit movie - Barbie - was nominated for eight awards, but also fell victim to notable snubs from the Academy.
Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer was nominated for best director and a host of other awards
What Was I Made For and I'm Just Ken from Barbie received their expected nominations for best original song
Its star Margot Robbie was not nominated for best actress, while Greta Gerwig was not nominated for best director.
Another surprise saw America Ferrera nominated for best supporting actress over her role in Barbie, with pundits saying her character's impassioned speech on feminism had sealed the deal.
Barbie's other nominations include best picture, best supporting actor for Ryan Gosling and two nods for best song - including Gosling's famed 'I'm Just Ken.'
The second most-nominated movie was Poor Things, a graphic art house movie starring Emma Stone that has wowed critics but so-far failed to set the box office alight.
Stone plays a sex-crazed young woman, with her performance wowing critics. She previously won best actress in 2017 for her performance in La La Land.
For best actor in leading role Bradley Cooper and Cillian Murphy are set to duke it out for the award. Colman Domingo, Paul Giamatti and Jeffrey Wright received nominations as well.
Leonardo DiCaprio was not recognized for his acting on Killers Of The Flower Moon.
Lily Gladstone is the first Native American nominated for best actress, for her performance in Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon
Yorgos Lanthimos' Poor Things took home 11 Oscar nominations and Killers of the Flower Moon landed 10.
Annette Bening, Lily Gladstone, Sandra Huller, Carey Mulligan and Emma Stone have been nominated for best
