10 hilariously awkward handshakes

Awards season is in full swing with the Bafta Film Awards this Sunday and the Oscars just around the corner, which means lots of handshaking. Congratulatory handshakes, handshakes when an award is accepted, consolatory handshakes...

A handshake is a pretty simple greeting between two human beings. But it can go so, so wrong. And when it does, Twitter account @awkhandshake, and indeed @awkwardshaking, are there to catch the action.

Here's some of our favourites...

Up first, the quick-change-into-backslap move

https://twitter.com/awkhandshake/status/544676203521912833

So many people, so much pain

https://twitter.com/awkhandshake/status/542009437859610624

Oh gosh, Joseph Gordon-Levitt's just so into it

https://twitter.com/awkhandshake/status/523161459170508801

If at first you don't succeed... give up. Oh, do please give up

https://twitter.com/awkhandshake/status/515521702550573057

Just going to file this under, 'How did this happen?'

https://twitter.com/awkhandshake/status/514192758387781632

A poke in the eye is sort of a well done... right?

https://twitter.com/awkhandshake/status/494578058313994242

This dude totally styles it out... until the guy next to him points out that he's seen. Darn.

https://twitter.com/awkhandshake/status/494222574193500160

All together now: "Allllll by myself...."

https://twitter.com/awkhandshake/status/493935526345703424

Make. It. Stop.