The Holdovers Receives 5 Academy Award Nominations. The heartfelt comedy is nominated for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Film Editing. A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school remains on campus during Christmas break to babysit a handful of students with nowhere to go. He soon forms an unlikely bond with a brainy but damaged troublemaker, and with the school's head cook, a woman who just lost a son in the Vietnam War. Rated R.