Da’Vine Joy Randolph is going to the Oscars — and she’ll be bringing a few guests.
The actress, cleaning up this awards season for her work opposite Paul Giamatti and Dominic Sessa in Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers, scored a best supporting actress nomination for the upcoming Oscars. While she was invited to the big party on March 10, she told Vanity Fair that it had become a challenge to make sure those closest to her could come along for the ride that night.
“They’re telling me I may only have one extra ticket, so that’s my mission. Can you imagine the people in your life that are, like, ‘I want to come!’ And you’re, like, ‘And you should come because you’ve helped me significantly in my life,’” she told the mag’s David Canfield. “If I can get five — I don’t care if my people are back there [on the balcony], I don’t need five people in my row. Get Oscar tickets, or buy Oscar tickets, whatever we’ve got to do — I have some family members that would be very upset, so I’ve got to figure that out.”
Even as recent as last week Randolph indicated she was still on the hunt, making a public plea during an appearance on Watch What Happens Live.
Randolph turned up at Sunday’s Spirit Awards in Santa Monica where The Hollywood Reporter asked for a status update. Turns out she got the tickets. “Thank you everyone,” Randolph said, though she was mum on additional details. She chalked up the acquisition to the “power of manifestation” and declined to say how many tickets she secured. “I can’t tell you that. You must get me in trouble.”
But what she would say is that the Oscars represent a “celebration of the people in my life” who have helped her get to this point. “I share this with them. They have to be there, and I’m just so infinitely grateful that people were graciously enough to make it happen for me.”
Randolph added another trophy to her collection on Sunday by picking up a Spirit Award for best supporting performance. Her haul thus far also includes a Golden Globe, SAG award, Critics Choice award and honors from the New York Film Critics Circle and Los Angeles Film Critics Association, to name a few. She’s hit the various stages with prepared remarks, and she told THR why that’s become a strategy for her these past few weeks.
“I just write it so that I can make sure that I can articulate it appropriately and how I feel, but I mean it very deeply,” she said, adding that she wrote her Spirit Awards speech about an hour before arriving to the event. “This is a very beautiful time. There’s no complaints. It’s definitely an amazing time of not only acknowledgement, but it means a lot to me that I’m able to show up authentically as myself and do what I love and be true to it, and that people just are receiving it so warmly. That means a lot.”
See her full Spirit Awards interview below.
