Fans think Edward Norton had a NSFW reaction to Kieran Culkin’s Oscars win

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2025 Oscars on Sunday to Kieran Culkin.Norton was nominated for his performance in the Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown,” but he and fellow nominees Yura Borisov (“Anora”), Guy Pearce (“The Brutalist”) and Jeremy Strong (“The Apprentice”) were bested by the “A Real Pain” star, 42.When Culkin’s name was announced as the winner, the camera cut to the other nominees including Norton, who turned to his wife, Shauna Robertson, and appeared to say “F–k” out loud.The moment went viral on social media and sparked a big reaction from viewers.“Did Edward Norton say f–k?

I felt that. Did yall feel that?” one fan wrote on X (formerly Twitter).“It’s literally me. I’m also a little upset,” another viewer tweeted.On TikTok, one fan asked, “Did Edward Norton just call Kieran Culkin a MF’er at the Oscars?”But other viewers speculated that Norton might have said “star,” “big start,” or “fun,” and not the F-word.The Post has reached out to Norton’s rep for comment.This was Norton’s fourth Oscar nomination.

He was previously nominated for Best Supporting Actor for “Primal Fear” in 1997 and “Birdman” in 2015, and for Best Actor for “American History X” in 1999.He plays the famous folk singer Pete Seeger in “A Complete Unknown” starring Timothée Chalamet as Dylan, 83.One month before the Oscars, Norton said in an interview with CBS News that as an actor he cares more about channeling greatness, rather than the awards and the money.“If channeling their frequency gets people refocused on what it looked like when people were using the talents they had to further ideas and values that were bigger than themselves, then that is what makes it worth doing,” he said.