2023 Oscars
Ke Huy Quan wins the 2023 Best Supporting Actor Oscar award
The award goes to the actor from Ke Huy Quan for his role in the film Everything Everywhere All at Once
Ke Huy Quan has won the 2023 Best Supporting Actor Oscar award for his work in ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’.
The 51-year-old beat out the likes of Brendan Gleeson and Barry Keoghan, who were both nominated for their work in ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’, Brian Tyree Henry for ‘Causeway’ and Judd Hirsch for ‘The Fabelmans’.
Quan’s win caps off his return to acting in spectacular fashion. Known for playing Short Round in ‘Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom’ and Data in ‘The Goonies, he stopped acting after appearing in the 1992 film ‘Encino Man’ due to a lack of opportunities offered to him as an Asian American actor.
As a result he went to work as a stunt coordinator and assistant director, before returning as the lovable Waymond Wang in ‘Everything Everything All at Once’.
Although Keoghan took home a surprise win at the BAFTAs, Quan was viewed as many as the front runner for the award, having won at the Golden Globes and the SAGs.
Quan’s win also makes him the second Asian to win this category, joining Haing S. Ngor, who won for ‘The Killing Fields’ in 1984.