--- ---  # Vin Diesel Pays Tribute to Paul Walker With Emotional Speech at Teen Choice Awards by [Christopher Rosen / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Christopher Rosen / Entertainment Weekly Aug 17, 2015 3:23 AM UTC  Actors Jordana Brewster, Michelle Rodriguez and Vin Diesel, left to right, accept the Choice Movie: Action Award for Furious 7 onstage during the Teen Choice Awards 2015 at the USC Galen Center on Aug. 16, 2015, in Los Angeles, Calif. Actors Jordana Brewster, Michelle Rodriguez and Vin Diesel, left to right, accept the Choice Movie: Action Award for Furious 7 onstage during the Teen Choice Awards 2015 at the USC Galen Center on Aug. 16, 2015, in Los Angeles, Calif.Kevin Winter—Getty Images by [Christopher Rosen / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Christopher Rosen / Entertainment Weekly Aug 17, 2015 3:23 AM UTC An emotional Vin Diesel praised Paul Walker and his daughter Meadow during this year’s Teen Choice Awards after _Furious 7_ took home the award for Choice Movie: Action. “I can’t stand here and be rewarded like this without talking about somebody very, very, very important to us,” Diesel, who stood alongside costars Ludacris, Jordana Brewster and Michelle Rodriguez, said as the crowd cheered. “One of the best blessings in our lives is the fact that we have the opportunity to call Pablo our brother. Paul Walker is here in spirit with us.” Diesel said that Walker’s family kept the cast going following the actor’s death in 2013, but he singled out Meadow, calling her a “very, very, very special teen.” Walker also received a posthumous Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Actor: Action. > [](https://twitter.com/TeenChoiceFOX/status/633087617265897472) [_This article originally appeared on EW.com_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/08/16/teen-choice-awards-vin-diesel-paul-walker) Vin Diesel Pays Tribute to Paul Walker With Emotional Speech at Teen Choice Awards ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3999889/vin-diesel-paul-walker-teen-choice-awards/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3999889/vin-diesel-paul-walker-teen-choice-awards/"},"headline":"Vin Diesel Pays Tribute to Paul Walker With Emotional Speech at Teen Choice Awards","datePublished":"2015-08-17T03:23:18.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T10:13:00.389Z","description":"\"Paul Walker is here in spirit with us\"","url":"https://time.com/3999889/vin-diesel-paul-walker-teen-choice-awards/","keywords":["movies","celebrities","remembrance"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd61b97e2c3603d22/69885f8acd1bba78d16fcbfc/gettyimages-484274808.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Christopher Rosen / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd61b97e2c3603d22/69885f8acd1bba78d16fcbfc/gettyimages-484274808.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Teen Choice Awards 2015 - Show","caption":"Teen Choice Awards 2015 - Show","creditText":"Kevin Winter—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3999889/vin-diesel-paul-walker-teen-choice-awards/","name":"Vin Diesel Pays Tribute to Paul Walker With Emotional Speech at Teen Choice Awards"}}]}] ```