Ke Huy Quan has won the Academy Award for best supporting actor, Trend reports citing NBC News.
Quan took home the Oscar on Sunday for his critically acclaimed role as a doting husband in “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”
“My mom is 84 years old, and she’s at home watching,” an emotional Quan said in his acceptance speech. “Mom, I just won an Oscar.”
The distinction makes Quan, who is Chinese Vietnamese, the second actor of Asian descent to ever win in his category. The first was Haing Ngor, a Chinese Cambodian refugee, who won for his role in the 1984 drama “The Killing Fields.” Quan beat out Brendan Gleeson and Barry Keoghan, both for “The Banshees of Inisherin”; Brian Tyree Henry for “Causeway”; and Judd Hirsch for “The Fabelmans.”