Edward Norton doesn’t like to lose.
The 55-year-old actor appeared to drop the F-bomb when he lost the Best Supporting Actor award at the 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.
“Can we get people to re-engage with and be moved by and inspired by the idea of artists as agents of change?” Norton said.
He also lost the Golden Globe Award, the BAFTA Award, the Critics’ Choice Award and the SAG Award to Culkin during this awards season.
In “A Real Pain,” Culkin plays one of two mismatched cousins—the other played by the film’s director and writer Jesse Eisenberg—who tour Poland to honor their late grandmother. Their adventure becomes complicated as old tensions resurface while exploring their family history.
In his Oscars acceptance speech, Culkin got censored when he gave a shoutout to his former “Succession” co-star Strong, 46, and told his wife, Jazz Charton, that he wants more children.