At Screen Actors Guild Awards, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Ayo Edebiri score wins in final stretch to Oscars

Da’Vine Joy Randolph of “The Holdovers” and Ayo Edebiri of “The Bear” continued to add to their awards collection with respective prizes from the 30th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. The ceremony took place Saturday at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles and streamed live on Netflix. In “The Holdovers,” the Focus Features comedy/drama set in the early 1970s, Randolph plays Mary Lamb, the outspoken and compassionate head cook at a Boston-area boarding school, who is grieving over the death of her military son in the Vietnam War. Randolph won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role. Da’vine Joy Randolph poses in the press room with the award for outstanding performance by a female actor in a supporting role for “The Holdovers” during the 30th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Photo credit: Jordan Strauss, Invision/The Associated Press In her acceptance speech, Randolph addressed “The Holdovers” director Alexander Payne and her co-stars, Paul Giamatti and Dominic Sessa, who were in the audience. “Grief is a slippery emotion to capture. And I thank you for creating an environment where I felt...