By Gemma Peplow, tradition and leisure reporter
We had a giant shock earlier when a tie was introduced – The Singers and Two People Exchanging Saliva have shared the award for best live-action quick movie.
In the 98-year historical past of the Academy Awards, this has solely occurred six instances earlier than.
The first was in 1932, when Fredric March (Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde) and Wallace Beery (The Champ) had been deemed to have tied for best actor.
However, the Oscars says this wasn’t a real tie as March really had yet another vote, however guidelines on the time acknowledged that if a second-place nominee got here inside three votes of the winner, they’d each win.
The guidelines have since been modified to honour solely a precise match.
So the first true tie got here in 1949, when A Chance To Live and So Much For So Little tied within the documentary quick class.
There has solely ever been one true within the performing classes – in 1968, when Katharine Hepburn (The Lion In The Winter) and Barbra Streisand (Funny Girl) shared the gong for best actress.
In 1986, there was a tie between documentaries Artie Shaw: Time Is All You’ve Got and Down And Out In America, and the following one got here in 1994, when Franz Kafka’s It’s a Wonderful Life and Trevor tied within the reside motion quick class.
Before tonight’s tie, the newest was in 2012, when Skyfall and Zero Dark Thirty had been each recognised for sound modifying.
