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Sam Smith Congratulates Himself For Being The First Openly Gay Oscar Winner… Except He Definitely Wasn’t

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I’m going to level with you guys — I used to be a Sam Smith fan. I loved “Latch”, his breakout song he did with Disclosure, and I even liked that acoustic version he recorded of “Lay Me Down” long before it ever ended up on his debut album. But since then, he’s grown whinier and more insufferable by the day to the point where I literally can’t stand him. I’m sure he’s a nice enough guy or whatever (although even that’s doubtful), but he just grinds my gears. He made that opinion even more solid after last night’s Oscars, where he took home the trophy for his Spectre track, “Writing’s On The Wall.” The song is boring, but that’s not the real travesty here — the travesty is that during his acceptance speech, Smith congratulated himself for being the first openly gay Oscar winner, which he most certainly is not. In fact, Dustin Lance Black, who also happens to be swimmer Tom Daley’s fiance, won an Oscar back in 2009 for Milk — a fact Black was happy to remind Smith of, along with a warning to stop texting Daley (yikes). Nevertheless, while there are probably even more gay Oscar winners, Smith was unrelenting and instead walked around calling himself the second openly gay Oscar winner. Why doesn’t he just pull up Google on his phone, for God’s sake? How did @samsmithworld react to finding out he wasn't the first openly gay winner? #Backstage #Oscarshttps://t.co/qzZ6hGpOFu — Variety (@Variety) February 29, 2016 Also, why is he morphing into Boy George? Make it stop! The post Sam Smith Congratulates Himself For Being The First Openly Gay Oscar Winner… Except He Definitely Wasn’t appeared first on Today's Evil Beet Gossip.

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Leonardo DiCaprio Finally Got His Oscar — Too Bad No One Tuned In To See It

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Last night was Hollywood’s biggest celebration of films and their actors, and it was a monumental night. I mean, I’m guessing it was — I didn’t actually see it. Instead, I was watching the Tina Fey & Amy Poehler movie Sisters, which was way better than I expected and had me LOLing throughout. Apparently all I missed on the Oscars was a bunch of white people winning awards, Sam Smith making an ass of himself (more on that later), and Leonardo DiCaprio finally getting that beloved gold statue. Turns out, I wasn’t actually alone in avoiding all things Academy Awards last night — the 2016 Oscars had the lowest ratings in eight years. From CNN: The show drew a 23.4 overnight rating on Sunday night, according to ABC. The ratings for the three and a half hour broadcast was down 5% from last year’s 24.6 overnight rating and would give the awards its lowest overnight rating in eight years. It should be noted that overnight ratings can be inaccurate in terms of measuring viewership and more detailed numbers including viewership will be released later on Monday. The low overnight ratings are surprising seeing that this year’s Oscars were one of the most talked about awards in recent years. This was due to backlash and protests over the Academy’s lack of diverse nominees. The Oscars are boring as shit, just like every other mainstream awards show. You can bring in whatever host you’d like, have any comedians make dumb joke you’d like, and it’s still going to be boring. That’s just the nature of the beast. Sure, we want to see what everyone wears on the red carpet and who gets to take home those gold statues, but I’d rather just read about it afterwards than have to sit through three insufferable hours. I am pretty stoked for Brie Larson and Alicia Vikander, though. The post Leonardo DiCaprio Finally Got His Oscar — Too Bad No One Tuned In To See It appeared first on Today's Evil Beet Gossip.