{"id":5730,"date":"2026-03-16T04:40:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T04:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/5730\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T04:40:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T04:40:06","slug":"oscars-shock-as-category-ends-in-tie-for-first-time-in-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/5730\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscars Shock as Category Ends in Tie for First Time in Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe 2026 Oscar<\/a> for best live-action short film resulted in expectedly big drama Sunday night when the category resulted in a tie.<\/p>\n

\n\tA stunned looking Kumail Nanjiani<\/a>, who presented the category, deftly handled the nearly unprecedented situation when he opened the envelope and declared, \u201cIt\u2019s a tie. I\u2019m not joking. It\u2019s actually a tie. So everyone calm down. We\u2019re gonna get through this. Focus up.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAmid surprised murmurs in the crowd, Nanjiani explained he was going to announce one winner, and they would come up on stage and accept their award, and then he would name a second winner. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe winners were: The Singers\u00a0(Netflix); Sam A. Davis and Jack Piatt and Two People Exchanging Saliva\u00a0(Canal+\/The New Yorker); Alexandre Singh and Natalie Musteata. \u201cThank you to the Academy for supporting a film that is weird and queer and made by a majority of women,\u201d Musteata said.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn between the awards, Nanjiani managed to beat host Conan O\u2019Brien<\/a> to the best (if obvious) joke:
\u201cIronically, the award for short film will take twice as long.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter both awards were presented, O\u2019Brien came back with his own jab: \u201cI just want to say congratulations to both winners \u2014 you just ruined 22 million Oscar pools.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tNanjiani did, however, get some grief on social media for a scripted joke he made just before presenting the category. After setting up the idea that many feature films would be better as short films, he cracked that One Battle After Another could be \u201cOne Battle,\u201d and Schindler\u2019s List could have been \u201cSchindler\u2019s Post It.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tTies have happened six times previously in Oscar history, the most recent being for best sound editing in 2012. It has also happened in the live-action short film category before, back in 1995. Many decades ago, a tie occurred in the best actress (1969) and best actor (1932) categories. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe Singers is about strangers in a bar making a bet about who can sing. While Two People Exchanging Saliva\u00a0is set in a dystopian world where you\u2019re not allowed to kiss and payments are given in slaps. <\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to the BBC<\/a> citing an Academy librarian, here are the previous Oscar ties: 2012: Best sound editing for Skyfall and Zero Dark Thirty. 1994: Best short film (live action) for Frank Kafka\u2019s It\u2019s a Wonderful Life and Trevor. 1986: Best feature documentary for Artie Shaw: Time is All You\u2019ve Got and Down and Out in America. 1968: Best actress for Katherine Hepburn and Barbara Streisand. 1949: Best documentary for both A Chance to Live and So Much for So Little. 1932: Best actor went to Wallace Beery (The Champ) and Fredric March (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde).<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 98th edition of the\u00a0awards<\/a>, hosted by O\u2019Brien for the second year in a row, aired live on ABC and Hulu from the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Here is a complete list of this year\u2019s winners<\/a> and the\u00a0star-studded Oscars red carpet 2026 arrivals<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 Oscar for best live-action short film resulted in expectedly big drama Sunday night when the category…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3970,4554,8,4555,9,3296,3297,7],"class_list":{"0":"post-5730","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-stories","8":"tag-academy-awards","9":"tag-academy-awards-2026","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-kumail-nanjiani","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-oscars","14":"tag-oscars-2026","15":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@news\/116237016901318378","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}