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Cassandra Kulukundis devoted her Oscar win in what class on Sunday to previous members of her career who “by no means received an opportunity to stand up right here”?
It was a brand-new class.
And by the way in which, do you know that this weekend’s tie between the 2 winners for Finest Reside-Motion Quick is the seventh in Oscars historical past? Probably the most well-known is Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand’s draw for Finest Actress in 1969—however probably the most fascinating is the primary, which wasn’t actually a tie in any respect.
Early Oscars guidelines held that runners-up inside three votes of the particular winner could be declared winners as nicely, and in 1932, Fredric March was just one vote forward of Wallace Beery for Finest Actor. Devastatingly, solely three actors had been nominated within the class, so the actual distinction went to Alfred Lunt: the lone loser.
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