R.I. fans cheer Viola Davis’s Oscar win
PROVIDENCE — It only took one name to bring out the cheers at the big Oscar party in Providence.
“Viola.”
Even before Mark Rylance, last year’s best supporting actor winner, said Viola Davis’s last name, the guests at the Flickers Arts Collaborative Academy Awards celebration at the Biltmore Hotel were cheering.
Then it was absolute silence as guests listened to Davis’s emotional acceptance speech Sunday night. Many were moved to tears.
Davis, who won the best supporting actress Oscar for her role in “Fences,” grew up in Central Falls, R.I. She went to Central Falls High School and Rhode Island College, and she’s been a longtime supporter of her hometown community.
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