“The most handsome man in the world,” Timothée Chalamet, faced multiple major shocks while attending the 2026 Oscars.

At the prestigious Academy Awards ceremony held on March 16, Timothée Chalamet was considered the most “embarrassed” A-list star. He attended the event amid heavy criticism for his controversial remarks calling classical arts like ballet and opera “outdated.” This scandal was even mocked by the Oscars organizers during the live global broadcast.

Not only that, from being a strong contender who was almost expected to win — after victories at the Critics’ Choice Awards and the Golden Globes — Timothée Chalamet ultimately walked away empty-handed. He lost the Best Actor award, and even his film Marty Supreme, despite receiving up to 9 nominations, failed to win a single award at the Oscars.

A truly embarrassing night for Timothée Chalamet at this year’s Oscars!

By the morning of March 17, social media platform X was flooded with a viral image of a man in white falling headfirst on the red carpet. The moment quickly gained massive engagement. Based on the outfit, many netizens assumed that the man in the photo was “heartthrob” Timothée Chalamet. Many commented that he was the unluckiest person at the Oscars, facing a triple blow: being mocked by the organizers, going home empty-handed, and even taking a painful fall at the event.

Netizens are buzzing over the moment a man in white — believed to be Timothée Chalamet — fell head over heels on the Oscars red carpet. Photo: X.

However, it didn’t take long for others to “fact-check” and realize that the person in the image was not Timothée Chalamet. The actor did not fall on the Oscars red carpet as widely rumored.

The origin of the image was later revealed to be from the 2011 Cannes Film Festival in France. At that time, an unidentified man sneaked onto the red carpet area and intentionally performed a flip on the staircase as a tribute to actor Jean-Paul Belmondo. When security rushed in to remove him, the man fell off the red carpet — and that moment has since become a viral meme circulating on social media for many years.

Perhaps after the 2026 Oscars, noticing the similarity that both Timothée Chalamet and the man from Cannes 2011 were wearing white outfits, some fans edited and reshared this humorous moment, falsely attributing it to Timothée Chalamet.

It remains unknown who the man who fell actually is. However, the moment has become a long-running meme widely shared across social media.