India, March 16 -- In the 98 years that the Academy Awards have been given out, over 2000 awards have been accepted and presented. Just how rare a tie is can be gauged by the fact that only six of these were ties. That was before this year's edition. When presenter Kumail Nanjiani said, "It's a tie," many in the audience were left confused. Nobody knew if that was even possible. But it did. The Best Live-Action Short Film category saw two winners, the first incident of a tie since 2012 and only the seventh since the awards began almost a century ago.

The Best Live-Action Short Film category isn't one that is expected to dominate headlines at the Academy Awards, but this year, it will be the one talked about the most (provided the rest of...