Stephanie Hsu, who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in last year’s Everything Everywhere All at Once and starred this year in the comedy Joy Ride, admitted that she found it difficult to find something to toast to tonight because “the world feels like it is an absolute shambles, and the shambles feel like they’re all somehow made by our own human doing.” The actress did not point to one specific tragedy, but noted that during the pandemic, she found comfort in the words of her favorite authors.