Tonight’s 5th Gold Gala, held at Downtown Los Angeles’ Music Center, featured stars from television to film to music to sports, as Gold House celebrated its annual Gold100 honorees, a list of 100 luminaries across culture.
The nonprofit, which spotlights and promotes the interests of Asian and Pacific Islander people, designated among its 2026 honorees Hudson Williams, KATSEYE, Alysa Liu, Hideo Kojima, Zohran Mamdani, Lucy Liu, Lola Tung, Kehlani, Chloé Zhao and the casts of The Pitt, trio behind KPop Demon Hunters smash hit “Golden,” producers and cinematographer of Sinners and cast and director of Wicked: For Good.
Meanwhile, Charles Melton is receiving the Gold Artistic Achievement, Eileen Gu — the Gold Impact, Jet Li — the Gold Legend, Priyanka Chopra Jonas — the Global Vanguard, Revathi Advaithi — the Forbes Gold and Simu Liu — the Gold Mogul.
Walking the Gold Carpet tonight were Ming-Na Wen, Bowen Yang, Daniel Dae Kim and Kal Penn, as well as Anna Cathcart, Gia Kim and Sasha Bhasin of XO, Kitty and Supriya Ganesh, Kristin Villanueva, Amielynn Abellera and Ken Kirby of The Pitt. Athletes like Sunisa Lee, Chloe Kim, Apolo Ohno and ice dancing sibling duo Alex and Maia Shibutani also took to the carpet, as did musicians like Ejae, H.E.R., GIRLSET, Halsey and Matthew Kim/BM, the rapper who recently made his acting debut in Netflix’s Beef Season 2, opposite co-star Melton, also an attendee tonight.
Scroll below to see the stars who walked the carpet.