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2024 Scene-Stealing Thespian

Da’Vine Joy Randolph

We were already all in on Randolph from her roles as Cherise in High Fidelity and detective Donna Williams in Only Murders in the Building. So we weren’t shocked when her portrayal of grieving-but-grounded prep-school cook Mary Lamb in Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers blew the cinema world away. When she won the Oscar for best supporting actress, we were over here like, told ya so.