Oscars 2026 just had a tie for best live action short film — has that ever happened before?

The 2026 Oscars had a shocking moment during the ceremony, when the Academy Award for best live-action short film ended in a tie — but an Oscars tie has actually happened multiple times in past years.

Kumail Nanjiani presented the award Sunday, which ended up going to both “The Singers” and “Two People Exchanging Saliva.”

The shock was evident from the start when Nanjiani asked the audience not to panic when he opened up the envelope and saw it was a tie.

 “It’s a tie,” he announced as the audience audibly reacted in surprise. “I’m not joking. It’s actually a tie. We’re going to get through this.”

He then invited the team for “The Singers” to accept the award first, before the team for “Two People Exchanging Saliva” accepted second.

Despite the shock, there has actually been six prior ties in the history of the Oscars.

The first tie happened in 1932 in the best actor category. Fredric March, who was nominated for “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” and Wallace Beery, who was nominated for “The Champ,” both won. Although March actually got one more vote than Berry, the rule at the time was that anyone who came within three votes of the winner would also get the prize.

The rules subsequently changed after that, with only the exact number of votes being counted to produce the true winner.

In 1950, another tie occurred in the the best documentary short category, which saw both “So Much for So Little” and “A Chance to Live” winning.

But by far, the most famous tie occurred in 1969, when both Katharine Hepburn — who was nominated for “The Lion in Winter” — and Barbra Streisand — who was nominated for “Funny Girl” — won.

The tie caused outrage at the time since Streisand was actually controversially invited to join the Academy early that year by then-president Gregory Peck.

“Funny Girl” was Streisand’s first movie ever, and the usual criteria at the time was for Academy members to have three major films, though an exception was made for Streisand.

Streisand’s vote for herself presumably resulted in a tie, and both her and Hepburn took home an Oscar that year.

Peck defended himself in a 1969 interview with the Hollywood Reporter, noting of Streisand, “She was a great star of the Broadway stage. She was acknowledged universally to be one of the outstanding talents of recent years. There was no question about her ability. It was within the discretion of the actors’ branch to accept her, and we had the privilege of doing that.”

The fourth tie to occur at the Oscars was in 1987, when both “Artie Shaw: Time Is All You’ve Got” and “Down and Out in America” both took home the best documentary (feature) prize.

Interestingly enough, another tie occurred in the best live-action short film category in 1995, when both “Trevor “and “Franz Kafka’s It’s a Wonderful Life” won.

The sixth tie to occur went down in 2013, when “Zero Dark Thirty” and “Skyfall” won the sound editing category.