Ryan Gosling's hilarious reaction to his Barbie track 'I'm Just Ken' winning Critics Choice Award becomes an instant meme

Just a week after the Golden Globes, the Critics Choice Awards took place on Sunday evening, and it was full of drama as usual.

The 29th edition of the awards show was held at the Barker Hangar at Santa Monica Airport, and honored some of the biggest film and TV achievements in the past year.

Many A-list celebs attended the event last night (14 January), including none other than Ryan Gosling.

Well, the actor has since become meme thanks to his hilarious reaction to the Barbie track 'I'm Just Ken' winning a Critics Choice Award.

In the movie, Gosling's character - Ken - belts out the tune, while channeling his true 'Kenergy'.

The rather catchy ballad claimed the Best Original Song award, though it was the 43-year-old's reaction to the win that has gone viral.

The Canadian actor furrowed his eyebrows and looked rather terrified after his famous track managed to bag the award.

Many have since flocked to X, formerly known as Twitter, to comment on his hilarious reaction.

"Yoooo Ryan Gosling's face on the 'I'm just Ken' song SENT ME!" one user said.

A second added: "Ryan Gosling giving us the best reaction of the night #CriticsChoiceAwards."

A third remarked: "I'm sill laughing at Ryan Gosling's face hahahaha."

Another X user commented how Gosling 'created a new meme with this face' at the show.

While someone else joked: "No one tries harder to avoid becoming a meme than Ryan Gosling and no one fails harder at that than Ryan Gosling."

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Unfortunately, it wasn't Gosling who took to the stage to accept the award, though we doubt he would have even found the right words anyway considering his reaction.

Instead, it was writers Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt who accepted the honor.

But the pair very much paid tribute to Ken himself in their acceptance speech.

"Ryan Gosling, this is as much your award as ours," Ronson said. "You made the audience fall in love with this song with your matchless performance, so thank you."

The writer then went on to thank director Greta Gerwig and her co-writer, husband Noah Baumbach.

"The fact that you carved out 11 minutes for this prog-rock, power-ballad, dream-ballet, shred fest so the boys could cry and hold hands a little too, we're really forever in your debt for that," Ronson said of Gerwig.

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It comes after the Barbie director finally addressed comedian Jo Koy’s jokes about her record-breaking movie at the Golden Globes.

In his monologue, Koy said: "Oppenheimer is based on a 721-page Pulitzer Prize-winning book about the Manhattan Project, and Barbie is on a plastic doll with big boobies."

But speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme on January 11, Gerwig noted that Koy isn’t exactly wrong in his assessment, before going on to explain why the film was important.

“She's the first doll that was mass-produced with breasts, so he was right on," Gerwig said. "And you know, I think that so much of the project, of the movie, was unlikely because it is about a plastic doll.

"Barbie, by her very construction, has no character, no story. She's there to be projected upon.”