Time.news – “This is the American dream, I am someone who had escaped on a boat,” he said through tears Ke Huy Quan, the former Vietnamese refugee awarded the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for “Everything everywhere all at once”. His award was highly anticipated, but tears flowed on stage and in the audience at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood when it was announced. Ariana DeBose, at the time of indicating him as the winner, did not hold back the tears.
He himself thanked everyone and dedicated the award to the mother who had left Vietnam with three children in search of a future, while the father had left with five other children, heading to a refugee camp in Hong Kong. The future actor Oscar Prize he was a seven year old boy. The whole family then emigrated to the United States in ’79. The “American dream” also comes true for Quan, who invited everyone, looking at the camera, to “continue dreaming”.