Every year The
Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences distinguishes those, who by vote, excelled
in their fields. Sometimes however, the number of votes match and we end up having
a tie. Here are the only six times in Oscar history one award ended up becoming
two.
6. Best Actor
It's 1932, the fifth
annual Academy Awards are underway, and the rules were significantly different
those currently in place. If a nominee came within three votes of the winner,
he too would receive an award, and that was exactly what happened with actors Fredric
March and Wallace Beery in the Best Actor category. However, that wasn't a true
tie since March had one more vote than his fellow winner.
March won for his
performance in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, while Beery won for The Champ.
The rules have since
been changed, and only an exact match in votes would qualify as a true tie.
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5. Best Documentary Short Subject
By 1950 the rulebook
had changed, but the outcome in race for the Best Documentary Short Subject Oscar
did not. A Tie took place between James L. Shute's 18-minute live-action short
A Chance to Live and Chuck Jones of Bugs Bunny fame and his 10-minute animated
short film So Much for So Little.
A Chance to Live was
part of Time Inc.'s The March of Time newsreel series and centered on Monsignor
John Patrick Carroll-Abbing and his efforts to put together a Boys Home in
Italy, while So Much for So Little focused on the worrying healthcare system in
the United States of America.
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4. Best Actress
In 1969 at the 41st
edition of the Academy Awards, one of the best-known ties in the Academy's history took place.
When presenter Ingrid Bergman opened the envelop announcing the winner of Best
Actress award, shockingly she discovered two names. Newcomer Barbra Streisand and
established thespian Katherine Hepburn had both received 3030 votes for their
turns in Funny Girl (Streisand), and The Lion in Winter (Hepburn).
Funny Girl was
Streisand's big screen debut (and what a debut!), while for Hepburn, The Lion
in Winter was her third Oscar win and eleventh nomination. The actress went on
to receive a twelfth nomination in 1982 for On Golden Pond, for which she won
her fourth Oscar.
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3. Best Documentary Feature
It's 1987 and the
Documentary Feature is making headlines. This time, the Academy
awarded two extremely distinct documentaries with the coveted statue. Oprah,
who just the year prior had received a Best Actress in a Supporting Role nomination
for her work on Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple, presented the statuette to
Brigitte Berman for Artie Shaw: Time is All You've Got and to producers Joseph
Feury and Milton Justice for director Lee Grant's Down and Out in America.
Artie Shaw: Time is
All You've Got chronicles the life and music of clarinetist, actor, bandleader,
and Oscar nominated composer and songwriter Artie Shaw. While Down and Out in
America looks deep into three sectors of American society (Minnesota, Los
Angeles, New York) hit by the recession in the mid-1980s.
This was the first
and only nomination for Berman. While Grant, who herself didn't won for the
documentary, was nominated four times for Best Actress in a Supporting Role,
winning one in 1976 for Shampoo.
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2. Best Short Film Live-Action
Let me paint you a
picture of the 67th edition of the Academy Awards. Tom Hanks wins the Oscar for
Forrest Gump, which would go on to take five additional statues. First time
nominee Quentin Tarantino takes home the award for original screenplay, and
there is yet another tie. This time, the widely opposing films are Peter
Capaldi's (Doctor Who) Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life and Peggy Rajski's Trevor.
Capaldi's 23-minute satirical
comedy stars Richard E. Grant (Downton Abbey) as the prolific Czech writer Kafka,
who amidst a writer's block keeps getting interrupted by the most absurd events.
Are they real or a figment of his imagination? Kafka eventually finds an insect
which provides him inspiration to start writing his acclaimed novel The Metamorphosis.
Trevor meanwhile is a
dramatic film about a 13-year-old gay boy who attempts suicide. Written by
James Lecesne (Vicious), Trevor led the way to the creation of The Trevor Project, a non-profit organization that provides crisis intervention and
suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender boys and
girls ages 13 to 24.
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1. Best Sound Editing
"And the Oscar goes to…We have a tie…No B.S., we have a tie," said Mark Wahlberg at the
85th Academy Awards while presenting the Oscar for Best Sound Editing alongside
his animated co-star Ted.
The first Oscar went
to Zero Dark Thirty's Paul N.J. Ottosson, and the second to Skyfall's Per
Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers.
For Ottosson Zero
Dark Thirty was his fourth nomination and third win. He had been previously
nominated for Spider-Man 2 and The Hurt Locker, another Kathryn Bigelow movie for
which he won two statuettes, one for Achievement in Sound Editing and another
for Sound Mixing.
As for the Skyfall
duo, this wasn't their first time on stage either. Hallberg's Oscar history
included one nomination for Face/Off in 1998, and two other wins. In 1996, Hallberg
won for Braveheart and repeated the feat in 2008 when he and Landers won for The
Bourne Ultimatum, which was Landers first nomination and win.
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