{"id":204389,"date":"2026-03-17T07:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T07:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/its-an-oscars-tie-two-films-win-best-live-action-short-film-nbc-news\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T07:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T07:20:11","slug":"its-an-oscars-tie-two-films-win-best-live-action-short-film-nbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/its-an-oscars-tie-two-films-win-best-live-action-short-film-nbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"It's an Oscars tie! Two films win best live-action short film. – NBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In a rare move, two films tied for the best live-action short film Oscar \u2014 something that\u2019s happened only six times before.
\u201cThe Singers,\u201d directed by Sam A. Davis and produced by Jack Piatt, and \u201cTwo People Exchanging Saliva,\u201d by Alexandre Singh and Natalie Musteata, won the coveted Academy Award on Sunday evening.
Kumail Nanjiani, who presented the award, made sure to make it clear that he wasn\u2019t joking when he said there were two winners.
“It\u2019s a tie. I\u2019m not joking. It\u2019s actually a tie,” he said. “So everyone, calm down. We\u2019re going to get through this!\u201d
He then announced each winner individually, creating two awards speeches. Nanjiani joked between speeches, \u201cIronic that the short-film Oscar is going to take twice as long.\u201d
The award was the first Oscar win and nomination for Piatt and the first win and the second nomination for Davis.
The \u201cTwo People Exchanging Saliva\u201d team accepted their award second, with Musteata saying: \u201cWe are so happy to be sharing this Oscar with \u2018The Singers.\u2019 We love all of our fellow nominees.\u201d
The award was Musteata and Singh\u2019s first Oscar nomination and win.
Singh in his acceptance speech highlighted the diverse team that made the film and stressed that art can \u201cchange people\u2019s souls.\u201d
\u201cMaybe it takes 10 years\u2019 time, but we can change society through art, through creativity, through theater and ballet and also cinema,\u201d he said to raucous laughter in the crowd. His line poked fun at Oscar nominee Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet for his comments this month when he said \u201cno one cares\u201d about ballet and opera<\/a>.
After their speeches, host Conan O\u2019Brien joked: \u201cI just want to say congratulations to both winners. You just ruined 22 million Oscar pools.\u201d
Tonight marks the seventh tie in the Academy Award\u2019s 98-year history.
The first was in 1932, when the match-up between Fredric March and Wallace Beery was deemed a tie for best actor. In 1968, Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand tied for best actress.
Before tonight\u2019s tie in the live-action short race, the most recent was in 2012, when \u201cSkyfall\u201d and \u201cZero Dark Thirty\u201d were both recognized for sound editing.
Marlene Lenthang is a breaking news reporter for NBC News Digital.
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news AlertsThere are no new alerts at this timeIn a rare move, two films tied for the best live-action short film Oscar \u2014 something that\u2019s happened only six times before.\u201cThe Singers,\u201d directed by Sam A. Davis and produced by Jack Piatt, and \u201cTwo People Exchanging Saliva,\u201d by Alexandre Singh and Natalie Musteata, won the coveted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":204390,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-204389","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-us","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}