Is it possible to tie the Oscars? Remember what happened in rare cases

In 2024, Emma Stonein Poor CreaturesIt is Lily Gladstonein Flower Moon Assassinscompete, head to head, to win the category of Best Actress in the 96th edition of Oscar. One way to resolve the fierce competition would be to reward both. But is it possible for a tie to happen at the biggest film awards?

In fact, not only can Oscar voting end in a tie, it has happened a few times in the award’s almost 100 years of existence. As the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, responsible for organizing the Oscars, has a voting body of more than nine thousand people, the event is very rare, but not impossible.

And the solution to the “problem” is quite simple: when two nominees finish voting in each category with the same number of votes, both are awarded. In the history of the Oscars, this has happened six times, and then the Rolling Stone Brazil remember these historic ties:

The most recently

The most recent case of a tie occurred in 2013, when the films The darkest hour (2012) and 007: Operation Skyfall (2012) tied in the Best Sound Editing category – which was later unified with Best Sound Mixing and became Best Sound, still in effect today.

On that occasion, the actor Mark Wahlberg He read the result on the envelope and seemed confused: “And the Oscar goes to… We have a tie! I’m not kidding: we actually have a draw”, he declared. Paul NJ Ottossonthe sound editor of The darkest hourgave the first speech, followed by Per Hallberg It is Karen Baker Landersin 007: Operation Skyfall.

The most famous

The most famous Oscar tie came in 1969, when Katharine Hepburn It is Barbra Streisand they shared the Best Actress award after receiving 3030 votes each. Hepburn was awarded for her performance as the Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine in historical drama The Lion in Winter (1968). However, as was the actress’ custom, she did not attend the ceremony.

Now the singer Barbra Streisand debuted in theaters, winning an Oscar for her performance as the protagonist Fanny Brice in the musical Funny Girl: A Genius Girl (1968). Unlike her colleague, the artist attended the ceremony to receive her golden statuette.

Other draws

In 1932, during the 5th Oscar ceremony in history, a tie occurred in the Best Actor category: Fredric Marchper The Doctor and the Monster (1931), and Wallace Berryper The champion (1931), shared the prize.

In 1950, So Much for So Little (1949) and A Chance to Live (1949) won the award for Best Documentary Short Film; in 1987, Artie Shaw: Time Is All You’ve Got (1985) It is Down and Out in America (1985) shared the statuette for Best Documentary; and, in 1995, Trevor (1994) and Franz Kafka’s: It’s a Wonderful Life (1993) shared the trophy for Best Short Film.

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