--- title: Billie Eilish Had a Reaction to Each 2020 Oscars Moment description: Billie Eilish is your new reaction meme queen thanks to her essential facial reactions to every 2020 Oscars moment. canonical: https://time.com/5781132/oscars-2020-billie-eilish-memes/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2020-02-10T12:29:51.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-12T19:37:19.000Z og:title: Billie Eilish Reacting to Every Occasion Was the True Cinematic Magic of the 2020 Oscars og:description: A gift to time-honored hall of awards show GIFs og:url: https://time.com/5781132/oscars-2020-billie-eilish-memes/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb7eac92d47cdd851/698a0a0c4ee262a2963170f6/Oscars2020BillieEilishreactions.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 2020 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Radhika Jones - Roaming Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Billie Eilish Reacting to Every Occasion Was the True Cinematic Magic of the 2020 Oscars twitter:description: A gift to time-honored hall of awards show GIFs twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb7eac92d47cdd851/698a0a0c4ee262a2963170f6/Oscars2020BillieEilishreactions.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Billie Eilish Reacting to Every Occasion Was the True Cinematic Magic of the 2020 Oscars by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Updated: Dec 12, 2023 7:37 PM UTCPublished: Feb 10, 2020 12:29 PM UTC  Billie Eilish attends the 2020 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Radhika Jones at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on February 09, 2020 in Beverly Hills, California. Billie Eilish attends the 2020 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Radhika Jones at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on February 09, 2020 in Beverly Hills, California.(Photo by Rich Fury/VF20/Getty Images for Vanity Fair) by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Updated: Dec 12, 2023 7:37 PM UTCPublished: Feb 10, 2020 12:29 PM UTC The [2020 Oscars](https://time.com/5780916/eminem-2020-oscars/) was worth watching for several reasons, especially when Billie Eilish wordlessly expressed her feelings in the moment throughout the evening. She was in attendance at the [92nd Academy Awards](https://time.com/5778650/oscars-winners-2020/) to cover “Yesterday” for the memoriam performance, and each time the cameras panned to the “Bad Guy” singer in the crowd, she had a reaction. It would be fair to say she stole quite a bit of the spotlight with her slightly perplexed facial expressions. In fact, her facial expressions were a gift to the pantheon of [awards show GIFs.](https://time.com/5780826/oscars-2020-recap/) As she reacted authentically to various things, memes came in strong and they came in immediately. As the cameras panned to Eilish quite often throughout the telecast, she outdid herself every time. The most popular clip on Twitter was a snapshot of her reacting to Maya Rudolph and Kristen Wiig’s fun Best Production Design and Best Costume Design presentation that saw the comedy powerhouses cycling through charming satirical numbers. But look! There she was reacting to Eminem’s surprise performance of “Lose Yourself” that truly appeared to a surprise a number of people in the crowd. This reaction was another all-night favorite. It is of course entirely possible that Eilish was reacting after noticing the cameras on her at these points in the production. Case in point: One simply doesn’t know what someone in attendance at the Oscars is truly thinking or feeling, and we may never know. Just ask Jennifer Garner. And in the case of Winona Ryder’s noteworthy [face journey at the SAG awards](https://www.elle.com/uk/life-and-culture/articles/a34250/winona-ryder-sag-awards-facial-expressions/), chalk it all up to the acoustics. But we do know one thing: Her face launched plenty of memes, and they can be very useful. See a sampling of 2020 Oscars Billie Eilish memes below. > [](https://twitter.com/Megan%5FNicolett/status/1226689443454738433) > [](https://twitter.com/yoda/status/1226689460429099008) > [](https://twitter.com/lanikaps/status/1226689558353522690) > [](https://twitter.com/coreymaceachern/status/1226717301283655680) > [](https://twitter.com/MemeBroker/status/1226796023319793664) > [](https://twitter.com/ziwe/status/1226702073594597376) > [](https://twitter.com/sallyholmes/status/1226696046966906880) > [](https://twitter.com/jesskalynch/status/1226687951796457474) > [](https://twitter.com/VANTAESTICS/status/1226687580902551554) > [](https://twitter.com/JacobsonAZach/status/1226689078222974976) > [](https://twitter.com/444jayanth/status/1226783329266982915) > [](https://twitter.com/TheGeekPoint%5F/status/1226688398687195136) > [](https://twitter.com/RyanSchocket/status/1226695478361894912) > [](https://twitter.com/BrentALang/status/1226687791037374464) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5781132/oscars-2020-billie-eilish-memes/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5781132/oscars-2020-billie-eilish-memes/"},"headline":"Billie Eilish Reacting to Every Occasion Was the True Cinematic Magic of the 2020 Oscars","datePublished":"2020-02-10T12:29:51.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-12T19:37:19.000Z","description":"A gift to time-honored hall of awards show GIFs","url":"https://time.com/5781132/oscars-2020-billie-eilish-memes/","keywords":["Newsfeed","awards","onetime","clickmonsters"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb7eac92d47cdd851/698a0a0c4ee262a2963170f6/Oscars2020BillieEilishreactions.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb7eac92d47cdd851/698a0a0c4ee262a2963170f6/Oscars2020BillieEilishreactions.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"2020 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Radhika Jones - Roaming Arrivals","caption":"Billie Eilish has a reaction for every occasion at the 2020 Oscars","creditText":"(Photo by Rich Fury/VF20/Getty Images for Vanity Fair)","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5781132/oscars-2020-billie-eilish-memes/","name":"Billie Eilish Reacting to Every Occasion Was the True Cinematic Magic of the 2020 Oscars"}}]}] ```