Everything Everywhere All at Once has received several nominations this Award season and succeeded in many. One of the recent wins is a Screen Actors Guild Award for best performance by a male actor in a supporting role given to Ke Huy Quan for his role as Waywond Wang. The actor -now 51- passed many years without being in front of the screen.

Quan became the first Asian male actor to win an acting award at the SAG. He also became the second Asian actor to win an individual award at these Awards. The first one was Lee Jung-Jae for Squid Game.

Quan was emotional while receiving the Award since he found out he was the first Asian actor to win it. The actor stated:

“This moment no longer belongs to just me, it also belongs to everyone who has asked for change…When I stepped away from acting it was because there were so few opportunities…. The landscape looks so different now than before. So, thank you so much to everyone in this room who contributed to these changes.”

Quan sent a message to the actors starting from home: “Please keep on going because the spotlight will one day find you.”

In several interviews and speeches, Quan has talked about how difficult acting became for him because of the lack of opportunities and how happy he became when getting the Everything Everywhere All at Once role. The actor has been very open about his experience. Now, Quan is one of the frontrunners for the Academy Awards since he has already received a Golden Globe and Critics Choice award for his role.

If he wins the Oscar, he will become the second Asian winner as a supporting actor. The only Asian actor who has won the award is Haing S. Ngor for The Killing Fields. In the whole history of the Awards, only five Asian actors have won.

Everything Everywhere All at Once is nominated this year for 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture.