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Sam Smith claimed he's the first 'openly gay' Oscar winner. People had a problem with that.

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Sam Smith just learned the importance of fact checking, after his acceptance speech for "Writing's on the Wall" (from the James Bond film Spectre) won Best Original Song.

Unlike an actor who says "I really didn't prepare for this" and then unfurls a three-page list of acknowledgements, when the presenter called Smith's number last night, the climax of his speech rested on a dubious piece of information:

"I read an article a few months ago by Sir Ian McKellen, and he said that no openly gay man had ever won an Oscar," Smith said, apparently using his shining spotlight to rack his brain for an old Guardian article he skimmed one afternoon. "And if this is the case, even if it isn't the case, I want to dedicate this to the LGBT community all around the world."

It was not the case. 

Unfortunately, Ian McKellen was referring only to an acting award.

https://twitter.com/IanMcKellen/status/704328283844771841

People have noted that Elton John won the same award as Smith in 1995 for "Can You Feel The Love Tonight?"

But perhaps the most notable name in Smith's angry Twitter mentions was from another former winner, Dustin Lance Black, who won the "Best Writing, Original Screenplay" Oscar for Milk in 2009.

https://twitter.com/DLanceBlack/status/704199543076818944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Not only did Black fire at Smith for the inaccurate comment, but for apparently "being a little overfriendly with his fiancé," British diver Tom Daley, as US Magazine reports. 

According the Huffington Post UK, Smith tried to walk back his speech in comments to "Good Morning Britain" at an Oscars after party. 

"I had something in my head... I think I'm the secondly openly gay person to win it. Either way it is important that we shine a light on what is going on in the LGBT community as it's not right. I feel like tonight was about diversity in all situations."

Right or wrong, what Smith meant as a powerful message of solidarity was drowned out by the flurry of pinging, stinging tweets that usually accompany a public gaffe.

#SamSmithFacts set Smith as the pioneer of several other moments of questionable historical veracity:

https://twitter.com/chris_mandle/status/704283376950317056https://twitter.com/DavidB1996/status/704293291978838016https://twitter.com/GrundyOxford/status/704289267472801792https://twitter.com/mark83_mj/status/704284649917382656https://twitter.com/Neurosceptic/status/704284062421282816

Best of luck to Sam Smith on basking in his prestigious victory today.


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People not clapping for 'Mad Max' costume designer Jenny Beavan is this year's totally made-up Oscars scandal.

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Except for when Stacey Dash made an appearance, there was a lot of clapping last night at the Oscars—including when Jenny Beavan won the award for Best Costume Design for her work on Mad Max. However, a fair number of people are stuck on the fact that when Beavan—whom Stephen Fry jokingly called a bag lady—went to the stage to accept the award, some dudes seemingly refused to clap.

https://vine.co/v/igWT9HBUnXp

Those who apparently resisted included Spotlight director Tom McCarthy and director Alejandro González Iñárritu, whose film The Revenant was also up for costume design.

Many were not pleased at the men's lack of reaction:

https://twitter.com/john_pattinson/status/704144917354954753https://twitter.com/emmakwall/status/704330079078371328

"Why didn't those men clap" became a thing: 

https://twitter.com/ayreball/status/704282793883217921https://twitter.com/Tinkerstration/status/704193248470761472https://twitter.com/Owordson/status/704173618872209408https://twitter.com/CharlotteAbotsi/status/704129290229702657

Some claimed it was because of Beavan's attire:

https://twitter.com/MollieIsrael/status/704356155569606658https://twitter.com/SuzanEraslan/status/704354345123446785

Backstage, Beavan addressed her outfit, which she said was an "homage" to Mad Max. “I really don’t do frocks, and I absolutely don’t do heels. I simply can’t wear them. I’ve got a bad back,” she said, according to The Wrap. "I just like feeling comfortable. And I’m sorry — as far as I’m concerned, I’m really dressed up." 

Beavan won an Oscar for clothes; she can wear what she wants.

But was the clapping about the outfit? Was it about anything? A closer analysis of footage reveals that once Beavan neared the stage there was movement by the men that does in fact appear to be clapping:

https://twitter.com/allthatchas/status/704348383453048834

It is acceptable that the men bided their time until Beavan was on stage to acknowledge her win? Or was it too little to late? It seems like the only people who will lose sleep over it are folks on the Internet.

Kate McKinnon's 'Carol' spoof was the best part of the Independent Spirit Awards.

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The Film Independent Spirit Awards were this weekend, hosted by SNL's Kate McKinnon and Kumail Nanjiani of Silicon Valley. The pair teamed up in a parody of the Todd Haynes-directed film Carol, which stars Cate Blanchett as Carol and Rooney Mara as Therese, two women who become involved in a love affair after Carol leaves her gloves her at the shop counter where Therese works. In the monologue, McKinnon called Carol“probably the most compelling story about someone leaving their gloves behind since The People v. O.J. Simpson.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QljnNIBtaI

The sketch, set in a restaurant called Lezzies, features cameos by Wanda Sykes and Jane Lynch as two lesbians who invite Carol to go sit with them instead, saying "You've got two sure things sitting right here."

Sorority girls, victims of Chris Rock's Oscar monologue, did not take well to the jab.

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The reviews are in, and most fans and critics have ruled that Chris Rock's opening monologue at the Oscars was awesome. It took on Hollywood's lack of diversity right out of the gate, and one joke in particular struck a chord and started trending:

"You're damn right Hollywood's racist ... Hollywood is sorority racist. 'We like you Rhonda, but you're not a Kappa.'"

It's even better with Rock's delivery: 

https://twitter.com/thisisinsider/status/704326268272013312

It really packed a punch:

https://twitter.com/MarkHarrisNYC/status/704120093295382529https://twitter.com/alicialutes/status/704119275510898689

Many sorority girls, however, felt they were inaccurately represented, and the Oscars' description of sorority girls didn't accurately reflect the lived experience. This is kind of like what the #OscarsSoWhite movement was about.

It's important to remember who the real victims are:

https://twitter.com/megfusselI/status/704149869456396288https://twitter.com/PinkIvy15/status/704320801558941697https://twitter.com/kavers13/status/704119318355771392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

They say his joke was factually unsound:

https://twitter.com/jayme0509/status/704124707432501251?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfwhttps://twitter.com/GingerM0nster/status/704119322793226240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

A Kappa found that Rock's joke makes him a wee bit of a hypocrite:

https://twitter.com/erinoverman/status/704120725024538624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfwhttps://twitter.com/thedaph28/status/704329721518137344https://twitter.com/thedaph28/status/704330056919859200

Many people celebrated the joke, others got all up in arms, and some people decided to fact-check:

https://twitter.com/shaun102715/status/704351850141712384https://twitter.com/NotBruceHarreld/status/704354440027856896

While sorority girls on Twitter are saying that the joke was unfair—or that there are exceptions to the rule—it seems like Chris Rock might've been right. 

Marco Rubio makes a joke about Donald Trump's penis and everything is deeply upsetting.

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Donald Trump gets compared to fascist dictators pretty regularly, but now both he and Adolf have been recently hit with allegations surrounding the size of their genitals. Marco Rubio, often touted as a more 'moderate' and electable GOP candidate, just made jokes about Trump's penis because that's apparently what you do when you are down in the polls of the 2016 election cycle.

He’s always calling me ‘Little Marco’ … and I’ll admit he’s taller than me, he’s 6’2″ which is why I don’t understand why he has hands the size of someone who’s 5’2″. Have you seen his hands? You know what they say about men with small hands...You can’t trust them. You can’t trust them. You can’t trust them. All right? You can’t trust them.

Little Marco (an incredibly cool nickname that he should be embracing) also responded to Trump's claims that he sweats too much, saying Trump "doesn't sweat because his pours are clogged from the spray tan that he uses. Donald is not going to make America great, he is going to make America orange!"

He also accused Trump of peeing his pants during the last debate.

Establishment candidates are doing whatever they can to stop Trump before he's handed the GOP nomination, and Little Marco seems to have a learned a thing or two from the schoolyard-bullying tactics employed by the front-runner (who still maintains an increasingly unbeatable lead in the polls). Oh, sweet Little Marco, you used to be such a nice boy...

You were once so pure of heart, Little Marco! Politics has turned you into a penis-obsessed monster.

Rubio was apparently proud enough of this jab to post it to his campaign's official YouTube account. Watch and weep for the soul of our nation below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv7bT0ik3Wg

Related: John Oliver finally takes on Trump, even though saying his name gives him a 'shattering orgasm.'

People are very upset about this Asian kids joke Chris Rock made at the Oscars.

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At the 2016 Oscars, host Chris Rock attacked the lack of diversity in the nominations as part of his opening monologue. Rock also made countless “Hollywood is racist” jokes throughout the show to address the #OscarsSoWhite controversy, but there was one bit that many felt didn't quite strike the right tone.

At one point in the show, Chris Rock presented the PricewaterhouseCoopers"representatives" who were in charge of counting the Oscar votes. However, instead of introducing the actual representatives, he welcomed three Asian children on stage. “They sent us their most dedicated, accurate and hard working representatives,” Rock said. “Please welcome Ming Zhu, Bao Ling, and David Moskowitz.”

Yes, this actually happened:

"If anybody’s upset about that joke, just tweet about it on your phone that was also made by these kids," Rock joked afterward. 

https://twitter.com/nickimayonews/status/704151392953434112

People sort of did what Rock told them to: they took to Twitter, but to express their anger about Rock's joke. They thought it was a very hypocritical move on Rock's part since he preached about diversity in Hollywood. Take a look:

https://twitter.com/Cici_Dy/status/704160050130980865https://twitter.com/JustinCChang/status/704154470645571585https://twitter.com/minakimes/status/704153637388492801https://twitter.com/seanmiura/status/704151073947316224https://twitter.com/gottabe_KD2/status/704159168169529345https://twitter.com/jfreewright/status/704153392944439297https://twitter.com/angryasianman/status/704154887899058176

It looks like Chris Rock should've stuck to what worked: making fun of sororities.

13 celebrities who may be firing their stylists after last night's Oscars.

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Another Academy Awards show is in the books, and though there were many unforgettable moments at last night's Oscars, as usual, the one thing that has everyone talking is the fashion. It's not easy criticizing beautiful people wearing dresses that cost more than most Americans' rent, but hey, someone's gotta do it. Here are 13 gorgeous celebs who's bad fashion choices will haunt them forever. (Or at least until tomorrow. Or not at all, because they're rich and famous.)

1. Heidi Klum's really expensive prom outfit.

Looks like an 1980's bridesmaid.

2. Rachel McAdams' wrinkled dress.

Look at those wrinkles. Sitting down in the car was a big mistake! should've taken a hoverboard.

3. Kerry Washington is dressed for a glamorous fantasy film.

A beautiful woman in leather sounds good on paper, but it didn't play on the red carpet.

4. Whoopi Goldberg looks severe.

She looks like the mother of the bride at a goth wedding. 

5. Amy Poehler's landscape painting.

When you don't want to leave the couch, so you wear the couch.

6. Sandy Powell saying "please Google Sandy Powell."

Bowie Tribute gone wrong.

7. Olivia Wilde in Osh Gosh B'Gowza!

Looks like she tried to make overalls out of a tablecloth. 

8. Kate Capshaw is ready to serve sexy hors d'oeuvres.

Steven Spielberg's wife has better taste in husbands than she does in fashion.

9. Jared Leto in "if the 60s Batmobile was a tux with a flower tie."

He's hot, but not pull-off-a-flower-bow-tie hot.

10. Reese Witherspoon is no shrinking violet.

Big and purple is not flattering, unless you're Barney.

11. Orlando Jones in a coat that wants to fly away asap.

This jacket is made out of recycled Oscars.

12. Rooney Mara in a doily that was previously on top of your grandma's old tv. 

She looks like her robot fiancé stood her up at their space wedding.

13. Jennifer Lawrence kindly carrying around some extra lace in case anyone needs it.

If a dress is this unflattering on J-Law, imagine how bad it'd look on a regular person?

Who had the biggest fashion fail on the red carpet last night?


Morgan Freeman was so excited about Girl Scout cookies at the Oscars, he didn't even wait until he got off stage.

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Last night's Oscar ceremony ran long (suprise!), so after Morgan Freeman presented the award for Best Picture to Spotlight, he grabbed a snack when host Chris Rock came back onstage to close out the show real quick. He was holding a box of Girl Scout cookies, which his daughters were selling at the awards show (by the end of the night, Rock had helped his daughters earn $65,243 for their Girl Scout troop). But no one—no one—seemed more excited about the cookies than Morgan Freeman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9EOO1ndRRc

Morgan Freeman reached over, grabbed two cookies, put them both in his mouth, and then just walked right offstage. Too bad he didn't have a mic to drop, because he certainly wasn't going to drop those cookies.

Freeman's cookie determination did not go unnoticed by viewers.

https://twitter.com/ReverendDrDash/status/704284986439024640https://twitter.com/BarstoolBigCat/status/704170057081827328https://twitter.com/Case_YES_Bin/status/704170028808183809https://twitter.com/FaZeJinx/status/704170064254205952https://twitter.com/MFnMelo/status/704310306831335424https://twitter.com/No_Cut_Card/status/704315334044549120https://twitter.com/BrookeAshleyP/status/704332069019766789

The most embarrassingly awkward autocorrects of February 2016.

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2016 is a leap year, which means you get to enjoy an extra day of February. That's an entire extra day of texting, which means even more opportunities for your phone's autocorrect feature to go haywire and ruin your personal, professional, and romantic relationships. As always, Damn You Autocorrect is here to collect the funniest of these mishaps for you, so you can enjoy other people's miseries while lamenting your own. Here are the most awkwardly hilarious autocorrects of February 2016.

1. Nicholas didn't need much convincing.

2. This person definitely doesn't need any more pills.

3. Everyone blames the drugs when they go home with a Catholic.

4. The most casual way to confess to murder.

5. This sounds like the best doctor ever.

6. That's a funny mistake but someone should check on that cat.

7. It's so hard to find authentic Manhattan jambalaya outside the Arctic.

8. That has to be the title of a self-help book for Star Wars fans.

9. Either this person is drunk, or their phone is. Or both.

10. The dinosaur's still better.

11. If it's too much sitting, try a different position.

12. Autocorrect is great at sending two grown men into a homophobic panic.

13. Never use an emoticon in a sentence about teabagging.

14. Still not as embarrassing as vaping.

Related: The most embarrassingly awkward autocorrects of January 2016.

Kris Jenner and Ellen have a plan to stop Kanye's Twitter rants and help him seem like less of a narcissist.

The Oscars left some big names out of their 'In Memoriam' segment, including Abe Vigoda, Tony Burton, and Natalie Cole.

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The "In Memoriam" segment at the Oscars is always a fun game to see how much grief and death you'd subconsciously repressed from the previous year of your life ("I forgot that Leonard Nimoy died! Sadness I had tamped down is returning to me!"), but even the Academy refused to acknowledge some of the departed last night.

Nirvana and Foo Fighters alum Dave Grohl, seen here not playing anything by Kurt Cobain even though that would've made way more sense than 'Blackbird.'

The presentation this year included such stars as Leonard Nimoy, Wes Craven, Alan Rickman, Christopher Lee, and David Bowie (with a clip, bafflingly, from his cameo in Zoolander rather than his starring role in The Man Who Fell To Earth). The montage was set to the somewhat incongruous and not-super-well-received soundtrack of Dave Grohl covering The Beatles' "Blackbird." Despite the obviously heartfelt sequence, the Academy also ignored some very well-known actors. You'd think they would have known better after the backlash they got for leaving out comedy legend Joan Rivers last year, but no.

The famous people left out this year include Abe Vigoda (you know, from The frickin' Godfather), Tony Burton (from Rocky), and Juliette Lewis's actor father, Geoffrey Lewis:

https://twitter.com/JulietteLewis/status/704158367644647424

Sorry that you were passed over in favor of some random publicists, guys!

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Sophie Turner might have accidentally revealed that Sansa doesn't die this season on 'Game of Thrones.'

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While on the Oscars red carpet, actress Sophie Turner dropped a pretty big spoiler for this season's Game of Thrones. Turner, who plays Sansa Stark in the acclaimed HBO series, revealed that her character will not meet her doom on season 6, but a couple of unnamed characters will.

Things are already looking great for Sansa, who, thank the old gods, escaped from her sinister husband Ramsay in season 5. But when Turner spoke with E! correspondent Giuliana Rancic, she gave fans even more good news. Turner said that she was reading through the scripts for season 6, and “flicking through, I’m like death, death, death — OK I’m good for this season.” The directors of the show were probably shaking their heads after Turner's reveal, but hey! Sansa Stark doesn't die.

https://vine.co/v/igaAi30I7ap

It's sort of unsurprising that Turner let the secret slip, considering that she is a celebrity who sometimes forgets she's a celebrity.

Middlebury College banned energy drinks. Their reason ensures students will drink way more.

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Middlebury College in Vermont has banned sales of energy drinks on campus, not because they cause heart problems but because they cause "problematic behavior" like "high-risk sexual activity." So, if you run a convenience store near Middlebury, prepare to sell a lot of gross taurine-laced beverages. Sure, adults know that high-risk sexual activity has serious real-world consequences, but when you're in college it sounds like a champagne problem you'd be almost lucky to have. However ignorant the latter stance on dangerous sex is, students contend it's even more ridiculous to ban drinks like Red Bull and 5-hour Energy for allegedly making 19-year-olds even hornier than usual.

School administrators explained the policy in a campus flyer recently (see below), and it's already caused some backlash. One 22-year-old senior who works at an on-campus café registered his dissenting opinion on the buzzkill policy, telling NBC, "There are more important things for them to address. And what do energy drinks have to do with sexual activity?"

"A lot, hopefully," thought a hypothetical hoard of Middlebury students who just sprinted off-campus to stock up. 

In banning the drink, officials did not use this tweet as evidence:

https://twitter.com/jane_bot/status/702927396979101696

Middlebury's own campus news outlet reported on the actual flyer circulating campus in advance of the ban, which goes into effect March 7:

The flyer mentions scientific literature revealing a connection between energy drinks and unsafe behavior in young people, including 'increased alcohol consumption, increased likelihood to drive while intoxicated, increased probability of use of other intoxicating substance and increased participation in high-risk sexual activity.'

Not all Middlebury students oppose the ban. In fact, it was a student intern at the school's Dining Services who apparently raised the issue in a Community Council meeting consisting of administration, faculty, staff, and students. Another student told The Middlebury Campus, "The school has a responsibility to direct students to healthy choices through what they provide."

Indeed, reports of "aggressive behaviors including unprotected sex, substance abuse and violence," appear in a New York Times article from 2008 called "Energy drinks linked to risky behavior among teenagers." But as the Huffington Post points out, the students and administrators behind the Middlebury ban might be "confusing causation with correlation." Perhaps the type of person who enjoys energy drinks is the same type of person who engages in the above behaviors, with or without the beverage.

As the old saying goes, the student makes the drink—not the other way around. Okay fine, no one says that. But if you've had enough caffeine, it almost makes sense.


A wombat and a labrador retriever teamed up to scratch itches and lick faces.

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Sleepy Burrows, a wombat sanctuary in Australia, has gifted the world with the best new odd couple. This wombat and its guard dog (because apparently wombats have guard dogs) are basically like an animal Annie Hall. Enjoy the 43 seconds of cuteness. You won't just love it, you'll lurve it.  

 
Wombat joey Yhi and wombat guardian dog Stella

Wombat joey Yhi assisting Stella with her grooming .....sort of (watch when Yhi gets her tongue:)). Remember, Stella guards the wombats, that is what she is bred to do so she is with them from a very young age, protecting and looking after them.

Posted by Sleepy Burrows Wombat Sanctuary on Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Leonardo DiCaprio gave the entire world the finger during his acceptance speech.

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Leonardo DiCaprio won an acting Oscar last night. Finally, a handsome white man made something of himself! And, as if sticking it to the haters, he very subtly appeared to give the world the finger last night. With the hand he used to hold the envelope announcing him as the winner, no less! Throughout much of his acceptance speech!

Look at that smug bastard.

It was probably an accident, but it also happens to be a perfect picture of triumph from a man who probably still thinks he should have won for What's Eating Gilbert Grape. And if it was on purpose, people know exactly what it's directed at:

https://twitter.com/loganIermam/status/704172993195290624

Leonardo DiCaprio made Oscar history with a cameo in 'Room' you probably missed.

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A24, the distributor behind Room, pointed out that the at-long-last Best Actor winner Leonardo DiCaprio had a DiCameo (sorry) in the movie that won Brie Larson her Best Actress statuette. This is the first time since 1998 that the Best Actress and Best Actor have appeared in the same movie, after Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt both won for As Good As It Gets.

Of course, DiCaprio didn't actually act in Room; he was a poster on the wall.

https://twitter.com/A24/status/704170970198585344

It's really funny until you remember that poster of young Leo was there because (spoiler alert) Larson's character was kidnapped at the height of Leomania and held captive for seven years, leaving her childhood bedroom's posters unchanged.

That must be what they're laughing about.

Netflix wants to pay 'Grammasters' $4,000 for the hard job of Instagramming and hanging out on set.

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Netflix is looking for hire four people for a job that could only exist in this time period: on-set Instagrammers. Business Insider reported that, for the third time, Netflix is searching for "Grammasters." The Grammasters visit undisclosed set locations in Europe and the Middle East where they get to hang out and gram what happening, but sadly for only two weeks.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BCJDcMJpS7Y/?taken-by=netflix

In return for Instagramming and "visiting the sets of popular shows, films, and even Netflix originals," the Grammasters will get $4,000. Sounds like one of the better ways to make cash. To apply, you have to follow Netflix on Instagram and tag three photos with the hashtag #grammasters3 by March 6. If only hashtags could replace all résumés and cover letters.

Tear-stricken kid refuses to eat his dinner because it's 'too cute to eat.'

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Children are both bizarre little people and the lifeblood of America's Funniest Home Videos, who've released another comedic gem featuring an emotionally distraught little boy weeping over a hot dog and condiments arranged to look like a smiley face. You have to feel for this kid's mom. It can be impossible to get your child to eat food that isn't shaped like a dinosaur or packing enough sugar to drop a mule, and now this? Come on, kid, give your mom a break!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy9ZV8evgDo

Actually, it's pretty cute, he gets a pass.

But just imagine how he'll react once he finds out how that hot dog is made.

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