Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Cord Jefferson deliver emotional speeches at Oscars wins for ‘The Holdovers,’ ‘American Fiction’; Kris Bowers wins for short documentary

“The Holdovers” actress Da’Vine Joy Randolph, “American Fiction” screenwriter Cord Jefferson, and “The Last Repair Shop” co-director Kris Bowers have joined the prestigious ranks of Oscar winners.& They won their first Oscars at the 96th annual Academy Awards ceremony Sunday at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Jimmy Kimmel hosted the show, which aired on ABC. Randolph, Jefferson, and Bowers were the only Black artists to win statuettes at the ceremony, which had 15 Black nominees. Universal Pictures’ award-dominating drama “Oppenheimer,” a biopic of atomic bomb inventor J. Robert Oppenheimer, had the most nominations (13) going into the ceremony, and won seven Oscars, including Best Picture. Da’Vine Joy Randolph arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Photo credit: John Locher, The Associated Press Randolph won the Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. It was her first Oscar nomination. In the Focus Features comedy/drama “The Holdovers,” set in the early 1970s, Randolph portrays the sassy but compassionate Mary Lamb, the chief cook at an elite boarding school in the Boston area. Mary is grieving over the death of her military son in the Vietnam War, and she is one of...