Winona Ryder's SAG Award Reaction

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Winona Ryder's SAG Award Reaction refers to various facial expressions made by actress Winona Ryder while standing next to fellow Stranger Things cast member David Harbour during their acceptance speech for winning Best Ensemble Drama at the 2017 Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG Awards).

Origin

On January 29th, 2017, the cast of Stranger Things was awarded Best Ensemble Drama at the 2017 SAG Awards ceremony in Los Angeles, California. During Harbour's politically-charged acceptance speech, Ryder could be seen making a wide variety of facial expressions (shown below).

During the speech, Twitter user @WellsAdams posted screencaptures of Ryder's facial expressions, captioned with "Winona Ryder is lit AF" and "Winona Ryder is ordering a drink on stage" (shown below).^[1]^[2]

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That evening, other Twitter users joked about Ryder's reactions, with many commenting on the wide range of emotions she appears to go through (shown below).

Also on January 29th, YouTuber davefink6667 uploaded a remix of the acceptance speech which zooms in on Ryder's face wwhile the "Strangers Things": theme plays in the background (shown below, left). On January 30th, Redditor sabrefudge submitted a similar clip featuring the song "Mad World" covered by Michael Andrews and Gary Jules played in the background (shown below, right). Within 11 hours, the post gained over 4,300 votes (89% upvoted) and 520 comments on /r/videos.^[8]

Also on January 30th, Twitter user @eric_x_thirteen posted an edited version of the Ryder clip in which she appears to be watching floating slices of pizza (shown below). Within 24 hours, the post gained over 14,600 likes and 8,800 retweets. In the coming days, several news sites published articles about the online reaction to Ryder's facial expressions, including The Daily Mail,^[3] The Telegraph,^[4] The Sun,^[5] Mashable^[6] and Page Six.^[7]