Oscars Tie, Best Sound Editing Winners 'Skyfall' and 'Zero Dark Thirty'
For the sixth time in Academy Awards history there was a tie in the sound editing category, with the Oscar going to both Skyfall and Zero Dark Thirty.
Mark Wahlberg and his teddy bear costar Ted presented the award and the announcement was so unexpected that Wahlberg added "No B.S." so the audience would not think he was joking. The winners were Paul N.J. Ottosson for Zero Dark Thirty, and Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers for Skyfall.
After accepting his award, Ottosson told reporters backstage he expected a tie to occur.
"Just before our category came up another fellow nominee sat next to me and I said, 'What if there's a tie, what would they do?' and then we got a tie," Ottosson said. "It's quite extraordinary."
However, he did not sound upset about the incident, as he spoke about making Academy Award history.
"Any time that you get involved in some kind of history making, that would be good," he said. "Paul is also a very good friend of ours. ... We could have shared this with any one of them it would have felt quite right."
Landers added, "Any time you win an Oscar it feels good, no matter how you win it."
In 1968, Katherine Hepburn for A Lion in Winter and Barbara Streisand for Funny Girl shared the Best Actress award. The first Academy tie was in 1932, when Wallace Beery and Frederic March both won Best Actor for The Champ and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Other nominees in the category of sound editing were those who worked on Argo, Django Unchained and Life of Pi.
