Ke Huy Quan Creates History at Screen Actors Guild Awards

by becoming the first Asian actor to get the SAG Award for best supporting male.

Image credit: Getty images By Josh Bell

Quan won the award for his portrayal of Waymond Wang in the blockbuster movie "Everything Everywhere All at Once" from 2022.

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Ke Huy Quan is the second Asian actor to win an individual SAG award in film or television, one year after Lee Jung-jae of "Squid Game" won for male actor in a drama series.

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While accepting his award an emotional Quan confessed on stage that he left acting because there were so few opportunities.

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Quan's performance in "Everything, Everywhere, All at Once" marked his first major cinematic role since the 1990s.

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Quan thanked Michelle Yeoh, saying, "We both started our careers in 1984, and one day we will meet on the big screen."

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Quan also thanked co-star Jamie Lee Curtis who received a SAG Award on Sunday for her performance as Deirdre Beaubeirdre.

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Quan took the opportunity of receiving his honour to encourage other actors who were "struggling to be seen."

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There are 11 Oscar nominations for "Everything Everywhere All at Once," including best picture.

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For the first time in SAG history two Asians are nominated in the same category along with Hsu is Hong Chau.

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Only five actors of Asian descent have won an Oscar in any of the four categories in the past 95 years of the Academy Awards.

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