There was a rare tie at the Oscars on Sunday night, with The Singers (Netflix) and Two People Exchanging Saliva (Canal+/The New Yorker) both taking home the award for Best Live-Action Short Film.
Including this year’s, there have only been seven ties in Oscars history, the most recent being in 2013, when Skyfall and Zero Dark Thirty were both honored with Best Sound Editing. It has happened once before, though, in Live-Action Short, with the films Trevor and Franz Kafka’s It’s a Wonderful Life sharing the award a little over three decades ago, in 1995.
Accepting on behalf of The Singers, director Sam A. Davis said, “Wow. I didn’t know that was a thing, a tie. But I’m happy to be up here.”
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Davis went on to thank his parents, “who convinced a kid from Potterville, Michigan that this was
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