Sam Smith found out he wasn't the first openly gay Oscar winner
Sam Smith Calls His Oscars Performance the ‘Worst Moment of My Life’. Smith won the 2016 Academy Award for the Best Original Song for “Writing’s on the Wall,” the melodramatic theme to the James Bond film Spectre. In his acceptance speech, he dedicated the award to the LGBT community and (incorrectly) implied that he was the first openly gay man to win an Oscar.
Oscar-winning singer-songwriter Sam Smith dedicated his “Writing’s on the Wall” win to the LGBT community in a heartfelt moment Sunday night and suggested that he was the first openly gay man to claim an Academy Award — but he soon learned backstage that wasn’t quite accurate.
“Sh‑‑! F‑‑‑ that!” Smith exclaimed when told by a reporter that he wasn’t the first gay winner. “Two’s my lucky number, so it’s all good,” he added. “Who was the other person?”
Persons would be more accurate. Previous gay Oscar winners include screenwriters Dustin Lance Black (Milk), Bill Condon (Gods and Monsters), and Alan Ball (American Beauty), and fellow songsmiths Melissa Etheridge, Elton John, and Stephen Sondheim.
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