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The Oscars just had their seventh tie in the history of the Academy Awards, for Best Live Action Short Film. The winners are the French-language drama Two People Exchanging Saliva and the musical-comedy The Singers.
Kumail Nanjiani presented the award, looking genuinely shocked when he opened the envelope.
Both winners walked up on stage, with Natalie Musteata, one of the directors and writers of Two People Exchanging Saliva, thanking the Academy for “supporting a film that is weird and queer and made by a majority of women.”
Between the speeches, Nanjiani said, “Ironically, the award for short film will take twice as long.”
The last time there was a tie in Oscars 98-year history was in 2013, where Skyfall and Zero Dark Thirty won for Best Sound Design for the 2012 films.
Two People Exchanging Saliva takes place in a dystopian world where the act of kissing is considered a crime – to the point of receiving the death penalty – but two women end up finding attraction with one another and go to seemingly extreme lengths to try and make kissing a reality for them.
The Singers takes place in a bar that decides to hold an improvised singing competition with patrons. The cast includes Mike Young from America’s Got Talent and Judah Kelly from The Voice Australia. The Singers is based on the Russian novelist, Ivan Turgenev’s story published in 1852, titled Singers.
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Jessie Wade is Associate Director of Editorial Programming at IGN. You can find her playing cozy games on her Switch or watching the latest fantasy and drama shows, as well as getting lost in way too many fantasy romance books.