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The actor and filmmaker was so flummoxed when his name was read by presenter Lupita Nyong’o that he admitted, “I didn’t think I would win.”

This year’s solid animation bunch splits neatly, between flummoxed kids with hope and injured adults trying to cope.

The Democrats, mainstream news media and the American public have been left flummoxed, confused and overwhelmed, as Rolling Stone details:

Soon after, a dad in a Bears sweatshirt and his three daughters walked in, looking as flummoxed as I had been.

Experts were at times flummoxed and impressed by how Lively managed to get hold of the text messages in the absence of a lawsuit.