LOS ANGELES — Ke Huy Quan really did win almost everything, everywhere this awards season, culminating Sunday with the Oscar for best performance by a supporting actor.
“My mom is 84 years old and she’s at home watching,” said the 51-year-old actor, already crying as he mounted the stage. “Mom, I just won an Oscar!”
The win was the only the second for an actor of East Asian descent in the category (Quan is of Vietnamese and Han Chinese extract), following the late Cambodian American Haing S. Ngor‘s 1984 triumph for “The Killing Fields.” Quan bested fellow nominees Brendan Gleeson (“The Banshees of Inisherin”), Brian Tyree Henry (“Causeway”), Judd Hirsch (“The Fablemans”) and Barry Keoghan (“The Banshees of Inisherin”).
