Everyone's Emotional Over Ke Huy Quan's 2023 Golden Globes Acceptance Speech, And Here's Why

The 2023 awards season is officially in full swing, and it kicked off last night with the 80th annual Golden Globe Awards.

Hosted by Jerrod Carmichael, this year's ceremony marked the return of the awards after NBC declined to air the 2022 awards following an investigation into the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

A lot of incredible people walked away with much-deserved awards, like the cast of Abbott Elementary, Angela Bassett, Jennifer Coolidge, Michelle Yeoh, and more. However, no speech was quite as memorable as Ke Huy Quan's, who got the first award of the evening.

Ke Huy Quan took home the award for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture for his work as Waymond Wang in Everything Everywhere All at Once. The role has earned him critical acclaim and marks his triumphant return to acting.

If you don't know, Ke was a child actor, who is probably best known for playing Short Round in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom in 1984 and Data in The Goonies in 1985.

After starring in a few other films, Ke was essentially forced to retire from acting given the limited number of roles for Asian actors.

While promoting Everything Everywhere All at Once, he has talked about his return, telling GQ, "I saw my fellow Asian actors up on the screen [in Crazy Rich Asians], and I had serious FOMO because I wanted to be up there with them. I thought about it for a long time, because I hadn’t done it in 20 years, and you don’t know if people will still embrace you. But when I stepped in front of the camera again, I realized that's what was missing all those years."

So, as you can imagine, his acceptance speech at the 2023 Golden Globes was an emotional one. He even started it by thanking Steven Spielberg, who cast him in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom nearly 40 years ago.

Look at this adorable then vs. now of them too:

Like, I started bawling the minute Ke began his speech.

We are all Jessica Chastain in this moment.

I can't even do his acceptance speech justice by just using photos, so you can watch Ke Huy Quan's full speech below:

Shortly after his big win, fans — like me — took to Twitter to show their support of Ke and just get emotional over this entire moment. Here are some of the best reactions:

Congrats again, Ke! Fingers crossed for another amazing acceptance speech moment from him at the 2023 Oscars.

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