Who or what would have tied in any category?

For the tragically uninformed around here, what was the rule change exactly?

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For the tragically uninformed around here, what was the rule change exactly?

Sorry, maybe I should have posted that.

From Wikipedia: There has only been one tie in the history of this category, and it wasn't an exact tie. In 1932, Fredric March received one more vote than Wallace Beery. Academy rules at that time considered such a close margin to be a tie, so both March and Beery received the award. Under the current Academy rules, however, dual awards are only given for exact ties. While that has never happened for the Best Actor award, it did happen for the Best Actress award in 1969.

And example answer to the question would be Cotillard and Christie. Basically, in your opinion, what two performers had the highest and closest amount of votes and why do you presume this?

You know, while I never said anything here on the forums about it, I was in an odd sort of way anticipating a Penn-Rourke tie. It really was between the two of them, and each one had viable reasons why they should win. In fact, its the first time that I had no favorite and would have been happy for either of them.

I'm thinking the Penn-Rourke match up will also be a tie if they didn't require a close tie up.

As always, acting comprises only 4 of the 27 or so categories, so ties are possible elsewhere as well.

I wouuld think that Cabaret with its 8 Oscars came very, very close to The Godfather in 1972 (which had won at that point only 2).

Would love to know the margin between Sean Penn and Bill Murray.

I would have loved to know the margin between Halle Berry and Sissy Spacek, Kim Basinger and Gloria Stuart, and Marisa Tomei and any of the other four (Davis, Plowright, Redgrave, and Richardson).