(MATT BAUME) How Many LGBT People Have Won Oscars?

Sam Smith just won an Oscar and noted that he's the first openly gay man to win an Academy Award -- but wait, that can't be right, can it? Well, no. Here some of Oscar's queerest moments -- and honestly, I think it's a GOOD thing that Sam lost count.

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Here are some of the queer winners I know of -- let me know if there are more:

1970 - John Schlesinger - "Midnight Cowboy"
1973 - Joel Grey - "Cabaret"
1982 - Sir John Gielgud - "Arthur"
1988 - Ferdinando Scarfiotti - "The Last Emperor"
1995 - Rob Epstein & Richard Schmiechen - "The Times of Harvey Milk"
1990 - Howard Ashman - "The Little Mermaid"
1990 - Rob Epstein - "Common Threads"
1991 - Stephen Sondheim - "Dick Tracy"
1992 - Howard Ashman - "Beauty and the Beast"
1992 - Debra Chasnoff - "Deadly Deception"
1995 - Elton John - "The Lion King"
1999 - Bill Condon - "Gods and Monsters"
1999 - John Corigliano - "The Red Violin"
2000 - Alan Ball - "American Beauty"
2003 - Pedro Almodóvar - "Talk to Her"
2004 - Rob Epstein - "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert"
2007 - Melissa Etheridge - "An Inconvenient Truth"
2008 - Scott Rudin - "No Country for Old Men"
2009 - Dustin Lance Black - "Milk"
2016 - Sam Smith - "Spectre"