Oscars 2026: ‘Best Live Action Short Film’ announced as a rare tie
In an extremely rare occurrence in Oscars history, the winners for ‘Best Live Action Short Film’ have been announced as a tie.
The award was being presented by Kumail Nanjiani, who had to convince the audience that he was not joking when he announced that the winners were both The Singers and Two People Exchanging Saliva.
He joked that it was “ironic that the short film award was taking twice as long”, with the event only having happened six times previously in the awards’ history.
A joint win most famously occurred in 1969 when Barbra Streisand and Katherine Hepburn had to share ‘Best Actress’ for their roles in Funny Girl and The Lion in Winter.
The most recent occurrence took place in 2013 with the award for ‘Best Sound Editing’, where the editors for Zero Dark Thirty and Skyfall had to share the prize.
The creatives for both films were gracious in their acceptance speeches, with the latter’s directors, Natalie Musteata and Alexandre Singh, paying tribute to their The Singers co-winners in their speech.
However, as the two directors talked on, the speech soon became somewhat laborious, with the microphone being lowered away from Singh and the camera cutting back to host Conan O’Brien while he was still speaking.
The director also made a rather overt comment about championing “theatre and ballet” as well as cinema, taking a jibe at Timothée Chalamet as he claimed people were no longer interested in the art forms.
Chalamet has already been the subject of a joke from the host about the comments during his opening monologue, as he said security had been upped due to “concerns about attacks from both the ballet and opera community”.
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