Andrew Garfield's awkward grin at Oscars 2023 goes viral

Andrew Garfield becomes a meme AGAIN! Star’s awkward grin at Oscars 2023 goes viral – one year after actor’s blase texting snap post-Will Smith slap set Twitter alight

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Andrew Garfield cemented his place in meme history as his awkward grin at the 2023 Oscars went viral on Sunday.

The actor, 39, who was a notable part of the star-studded ceremony, became the center of attention when host Jimmy Kimmel quipped about Will Smith’s Oscars slap his opening monologue, and said Spider-Man would protect him.

As Kimmel said: ‘And if any of you get mad at a joke and decide you want to get jiggy with it – it’s not going to be easy’ the camera flipped to stars including Garfield, Steven Spielberg and Michael B.Jordan.

Kimmel joked: ‘You are going to have to tangle with Spider-Man’ as the camera fixed on Garfield who smiled awkwardly before opening his mouth wider in a hilarious grimace.

Fans quickly swarmed social media to share their delight, with one writing: ‘It would not be a legit Oscar night without Andrew Garfield being a meme.

Lol: Andrew Garfield cemented his place in meme history as his awkward grin at the 2023 Oscars went viral on Sunday

The moment: Garfield previously became a meme at the 2022 Oscars when he was snapped texting under a table, in the immediate aftermath of Will Smith slapping Chris Rock

Another wrote: ‘One more oscars day one more day andrew garfield becomes the main meme from the night he doesnt lose anything.

A third typed: ‘Andrew Garfield is the official meme of the night’ while another wrote: ‘Andrew Garfield and his dorky face at the Oscars.’

Others referenced Pedro Pascal’s suave point at the camera during the monologue, with one fan writing: ‘New memes unblocked, thanks Andrew Garfield and Pedro Pascal.’

Garfield previously became a meme at the 2022 Oscars when he was snapped texting under a table, in the immediate aftermath of Will Smith slapping Chris Rock.

Last year he also opened up about the iconic ‘meme’ shot that he pulled off with Tobey Maguire and Tom Holland in Marvel’s Spider-Man: No Way Home.

The meme was posted by the official @SpiderManMovie Twitter in February, to promote the digital release on March 15. 

Garfield was promoting his Oscar-nominated tick… tick… BOOM! on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Wednesday, where he revealed the meme shot was actually shot before he, Tobey Maguire and Tom Holland actually filmed any scenes.

The original meme dates back to a 1968 episode of the Spider-Man animated series dubbed Double Identity, where a Spider-Man lookalike was on the loose.

Oscar winners 2023: AT A GLANCE

Best Picture: Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Actress: Michelle Yeoh – Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Actor: Brendan Fraser – The Whale

Best Supporting Actress: Jamie Lee Curtis – Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Supporting Actor: Ke Huy Quan – Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Director: Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert – Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Writing (Original Screenplay): Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert – Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay): Sarah Polley – Women Talking

Best Animated Feature Film: Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

Best International Feature Film: All Quiet on the Western Front

Best Documentary Feature: Navalny

Best Film Editing: Paul Rogers – Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Music (Original Song): “Naatu Naatu” from RRR

Best Sound: Top Gun: Maverick

Best Visual Effects: Avatar: The Way of Water

Banter: Kimmel joked: ‘You are going to have to tangle with Spider-Man’ as the camera fixed on Garfield who smiled awkwardly before opening his mouth wider in a hilarious grimace


They’re all at it: Pedro Pascal was also namechecked in the speech and had a hilarious response

Haha: Fans went wild for Garfield’s hilariously awkward expression

Kimmel asked when the meme was shot, with Garfield revealing it was actually the first thing they shot for the movie.

 ‘Me and Tobey landed on set, they put us in the costumes, and they said, “We’re gonna do the meme really quickly,”‘ Garfield revealed.

‘That was before we had shot anything. It was literally like, saying hello to Tom, and we’re all in our (suits),’ he added.

Kimmel said, ‘The first time you said hello to Tom you were dressed as Spider-Man?’ which Garfield responded, ‘Yeah, ish, kind of, yeah.’

‘We were all kind of thrown onto a set and told to point at each other. I think we got one good shot and that’s that, cause the rest of the time we were just laughing trying not to stare at each other’s crotches, just comparing bulges,’ Garfield said.

There was a scene similar to the pointing meme in the movie too, and when Kimmel asked if that was his idea, Garfield said, ‘we were all putting our heads together about it.’

‘We were all like, “Where do we put the meme? Where do we put the meme?” We had a writers room going on between the five or six of us,’ he said, along with Tom, Tobey, director Jon Watts, Zendaya and Jacob Batalon.

Meme: Andrew opened up about the iconic ‘meme’ shot that he pulled off with Tobey Maguire and Tom Holland in Marvel’s Spider-Man: No Way Home last year

‘I just kind of happened to have the Doc Brown “Great Scott!” Eureka moment, I bolted upright and realized where it should be and I ran on to set and I interrupted whatever Jon was shooting and said, “I’ve got the meme! I’ve got the meme!”‘ Garfield revealed.

The scene happened in a lab when, ‘we’re all kind of like saying, is it me Peter? No we’re all Peter, and Jacob is getting frustrated. Yeah it was so much fun.’ 

Spider-Man: No Way Home became the biggest movie of the ‘pandemic era,’ and also one of the biggest movies of all time at the box office.

It opened with a massive $260.1 million in December – the second biggest debut of all-time behind Avengers: Endgame ($357.1 million) en route to $793.8 million domestic (third biggest of all-time) and $1.878 billion (sixth biggest all-time).

Oscars 2023: Full list of 95th Academy Awards winners

Best Picture

All Quiet on the Western Front

Avatar: The Way of Water

The Banshees of Inisherin

Elvis

Everything Everywhere All at Once – WINNER

The Fabelmans

TÁR

Top Gun: Maverick

Triangle of Sadness

Women Talking

Winning EVERYTHING: Everything Everywhere All At Once earned seven including coveted Best Picture

 

Best Director

Martin McDonagh – The Banshees of Inisherin

Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert – Everything Everywhere All at Once – WINNERS

Steven Spielberg – The Fabelmans

Todd Field – TÁR

Ruben Östlund – Triangle of Sadness

 

Best Actor

Austin Butler – Elvis

Colin Farrell – The Banshees of Inisherin

Brendan Fraser – The Whale – WINNER

Paul Mescal -Aftersun

Bill Nighy – Living

Comeback king: Brendan Fraser won Best Actor for his performance in The Whale

 

Best Actress

Cate Blanchett – TÁR

Ana de Armas – Blonde

Andrea Riseborough -To Leslie

Michelle Williams – The Fabelmans

Michelle Yeoh – Everything Everywhere All at Once – WINNER

 

Best Supporting Actor

Brendan Gleeson – The Banshees of Inisherin

Brian Tyree Henry – Causeway

Judd Hirsch – The Fabelmans

Barry Keoghan – The Banshees of Inisherin

Ke Huy Quan – Everything Everywhere All at Once – WINNER

 

Best Supporting Actress

Angela Bassett – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Hong Chau – The Whale

Kerry Condon – The Banshees of Inisherin

Jamie Lee Curtis – Everything Everywhere All at Once – WINNER

Stephanie Hsu – Everything Everywhere All at Once

 

Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson, and Ian Stokell – All Quiet on the Western Front

Rian Johnson – Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Kazuo Ishiguro – Living

Screenplay by Ehren Kruger, Eric Warren Singer, and Christopher McQuarrie, story by Peter Craig and Justin Marks – Top Gun: Maverick

Sarah Polley – Women Talking – WINNER

 

Best Writing (Original Screenplay)

Martin McDonagh – The Banshees of Inisherin

Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert – Everything Everywhere All at Once – WINNER

Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner – The Fabelmans

Todd Field – TÁR

Ruben Östlund – Triangle of Sadness

 

Best Animated Feature Film

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio -WINNER

Marcel the Shell With Shoes On

Puss In Boots: The Last Wish

The Sea Beast

Turning Red

Quite the imagination: Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio won Best Animated Feature Film

 

Best International Feature Film

All Quiet on the Western Front – WINNER

Argentina, 1985

Close

EO

The Quiet Girl

 

Best Documentary Feature

All That Breathes

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

Fire of Love

A House Made of Splinters

Navalny – WINNER

 

Best Film Editing

Mikkel E.G. Nielsen, The Banshees of Inisherin

Matt Villa and Jonathan Redmond, Elvis

Paul Rogers, Everything Everywhere All at Once – WINNER

Monika Willi, TÁR

Eddie Hamilton, Top Gun: Maverick

 

Best Cinematography

James Friend – All Quiet on the Western Front – WINNER

Darius Khondji – Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths

Mandy Walker – Elvis

Roger Deakins – Empire of Light

Florian Hoffmeister – TÁR

Best Costume Design

Mary Zophres – Babylon

Ruth E. Carter – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – WINNER

Catherine Martin – Elvis

Shirley Kurata – Everything Everywhere All at Once

Jenny Beavan – Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris

Iconic: Ruth E. Carter won Best Costume Design for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

 

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Heike Merker and Linda Eisenhamerová – All Quiet on the Western Front

Naomi Donne, Mike Marino, and Mike Fontaine – The Batman

Camille Friend and Joel Harlow – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Mark Coulier, Jason Baird, and Aldo Signoretti – Elvis

Adrien Morot, Judy Chin, and Anne Marie Bradley – The Whale – WINNER

 

Best Production Design

Christian M. Goldbeck and Ernestine Hipper – All Quiet on the Western Front – WINNER

Dylan Cole, Ben Procter, and Vanessa Cole – Avatar: The Way of Water

Florencia Martin and Anthony Carlino – Babylon

Catherine Martin, Karen Murphy, and Bev Dunn – Elvis

Rick Carter and Karen O’Hara – The Fabelmans

 

Best Music (Original Song)

“Applause” from Tell It Like a Woman, music and lyrics by Dianne Warren

“Hold My Hand” from Top Gun: Maverick, music and lyrics by Lady Gaga and BloodPop

“Lift Me Up” from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, music and lyrics by Tems, Rihanna, Ryan Coogler, and Ludwig Goransson

“Naatu Naatu” from RRR, music by M.M. Keeravaani, lyrics by Chandrabose – WINNER

“This Is a Life” from Everything Everywhere All at Once, music by Ryan Lott, David Byrne, and Mitski, lyrics by Ryan Lott

Dynamic duo: M.M. Keeravaani (left) and Chandrabose won Best Music (Original Song) for Naatu Naatu from RRR

 

Best Music (Original Score)

Volker Bertelmann – All Quiet on the Western Front – WINNER

Justin Hurwitz – Babylon

Carter Burwell – The Banshees of Inisherin

Son Lux – Everything Everywhere All at Once

John Williams – The Fabelmans

 

Best Sound

Viktor Prášil, Frank Kruse, Markus Stemler, Lars Ginzel, and Stefan Korte – All Quiet on the Western Front

Julian Howarth, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Dick Bernstein, Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, and Michael Hedges – Avatar: The Way of Water

Stuart Wilson, William Files, Douglas Murray, and Andy Nelson – The Batman

David Lee, Wayne Pashley, Andy Nelson, and Michael Keller – Elvis

Mark Weingarten, James H. Mather, Al Nelson, Chris Burdon, and Mark Taylor – Top Gun: Maverick – WINNER

Flying: The Tom Cruise led sequel Top Gun: Maverick won the Academy Award for Best Sound on Sunday during a ceremony which the 60-year-old leading man skipped

 

Best Visual Effects

Frank Petzold, Viktor Müller, Markus Frank, and Kamil Jafar – All Quiet on the Western Front

Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon, and Daniel Barrett – Avatar: The Way of Water – WINNER

Dan Lemmon, Russell Earl, Anders Langlands, and Dominic Tuohy – The Batman

Geoffrey Baumann, Craig Hammack, R. Christopher White, and Dan Sudick – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Ryan Tudhope, Seth Hill, Bryan Litson, and Scott R. Fisher – Top Gun: Maverick

 

Best Animated Short Film

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse – WINNER

The Flying Sailor

Ice Merchants

My Year of Dicks

An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake, and I Think I Believe It

 

Best Live Action Short Film

An Irish Goodbye – WINNER

Ivalu

Le Pupille

Night Ride

The Red Suitcase

 

Best Documentary Short

The Elephant Whisperers – WINNER

Haulout

How Do You Measure a Year?

The Martha Mitchell Effect

Stranger at the Gate

 

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