Quan accepted the trophy Sunday night time for his position in “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” changing into simply the second Asian winner ever within the supporting actor class, becoming a member of Haing S. Ngor for “The Killing Fields” in 1984.

As his identify was introduced, Quan rose and hugged co-stars Michelle Yeoh and Jamie Lee Curtis, who received supporting actress honors after him. He clasped his arms to his mouth.

“My mom is 84 years old and she’s at home watching,” Quan mentioned. “Mom, I just won an Oscar!”

An emotional Quan kissed his statue repeatedly and sniffled into the microphone on stage after receiving a standing ovation. Presenter Ariana DeBose was in tears.

“My journey started on a boat. I spent a year in a refugee camp and somehow I ended up here on Hollywood’s biggest stage,” he mentioned. “They say stories like this only happen in the movies. I can’t believe this is happening to me. This is the American dream.”

Quan rode an enormous wave of momentum into the Oscars, having received each main award besides the BAFTA. Quan endeared himself throughout acceptance speeches as a lot as he did in his profitable efficiency. He used his place to encourage different struggling actors that at some point in addition they will discover success.

Along the awards present path, the enormously likeable Quan compiled a photograph album for the ages as he posed for selfies with everybody from Tom Cruise to administrators James Cameron and Steven Spielberg. It appeared anybody well-known was completely happy to smile or make humorous faces alongside Quan.

The Vietnam-born actor whose household immigrated to California within the late Seventies first gained consideration as a pre-teen within the vastly widespread Eighties motion pictures “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” and “The Goonies.” He went on to roles within the TV present “Head of the Class” and the film “Encino Man” (starring fellow Oscar nominee Brendan Fraser ) within the early Nineties earlier than work dried up.

Finding few on-camera alternatives, Quan turned elsewhere. He earned a movie diploma from the University of Southern California and labored behind the scenes as a stunt coordinator and assistant director.

“I owe everything to the love of my life, my wife Echo,” he mentioned, “who month after month, year after year for 20 years told me that one day, one day my time will come. Dreams are something you have to believe in. I almost gave up on mine. To all of you out there, please keep your dreams alive.”

Inspired by the success of the 2018 film “Crazy Rich Asians,” Quan returned to appearing and landed an audition for “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” which earned a number one 11 Oscar nominations. His former “Goonies” co-star, Jeff Cohen, serves as his lawyer who drew up the contract for his Oscar-winning position.

“Thank you to my ‘Goonies’ brother for life, Jeff Cohen,” Quan mentioned.

Now, individuals cease him to speak a couple of film he made as a grown-up, “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”

As Waymond Wang, Quan seems in three completely different incarnations within the critically acclaimed movie. He received a Golden Globe and have become the primary Asian man to win a person class on the SAG Awards.

The 51-year-old Quan is busy juggling new roles, together with becoming a member of the Marvel Cinematic Universe collection “Loki” on Disney+.

Quan received the Oscar over fellow nominees Brendan Gleeson and Barry Keoghan of “The Banshees of Inisherin,” Brian Tyree Henry of “Causeway” and Judd Hirsch of “The Fabelmans.”