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”
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