He beat out Brendan Fraser for “The Whale,” Hugh Jackman for “The Son,” Bill Nighy for his role in “Living” and Jeremy Pope for “The Inspection.”

“You were an icon and a rebel and I love you so much,” said Butler to the late, legendary singer, in an emotional speech in which he also praised Presley’s family for their support.

“You could at least play ‘Suspicious Minds’ or something,” he joked to the gala’s pianist, as music interrupted his moment on stage.

Colin Farrell won the Globe for best comedy film actor for “The Banshees of Inisherin,” about a shattered friendship on a remote Irish island.

And Michelle Yeoh won best comedy actress for the surreal “Everything Everywhere All At Once.”

Her co-star in the multiverse-hopping sci-fi film Ke Huy Quan — who shot to fame as a child star in “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” almost four decades ago — won best supporting actor.

Quan, 51, grew emotional as he admitted he had begun to fear he “would never surpass what I achieved as a kid.”

“Thankfully more than 30 years later, two guys thought of me. They remembered that kid, and they gave me an opportunity to try again,” he said, referring to directors Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan.