Sam Smith, pictured above, the person who sang a song on the Oscars last night right before I turned it off (it was horrible, right?), apparently won an award later in the night and when he accepted it he said he thought he might be the first openly gay person to win an Academy Award.

As Entertainment Tonight points out:

Smith was eventually informed backstage that he actually isn't the first openly gay person to win an Oscar. The list of winners also includes Broadway legend Stephen Sondheim, filmmaker Bill Condon, Melissa Etheridge, Elton John, and lyricist Howard Ashman, who won two Best Original Song awards for his legendary work with Disney.

It's especially weird he didn't know about Howard Ashman's two Oscars, especially because they were in the same category Smith won last night.

Also because Howard Ashman is arguably the most successful and brilliant gay artist of his generation, having written the lyrics to The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and part of Aladdin before dying of AIDS. (He also wrote the lyrics to Little Shop of Horrors.)

When Ashman's name was mentioned, "Smith did not recognize the name," and he went on to say just about the cringiest thing he possibly could've:

"I should know him. We should date," Smith quipped, seemingly unaware that Ashman died from complications from AIDS in 1991.

Oops.

Also Dustin Lance Black is mad or offended or jealous or whatever.