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Former Academy president Gregory Peck made a controversial decision back in 1968. He allowed Barbra Streisand to become a voting member of the Academy without the usual two-year wait period following a first film release.
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She then voted for herself in the 1968 Best Actress race, causing a tie. Katharine Hepburn in The Lion in Winter and Streisand in Funny Girl were the first ever exact tie winners.
1 comments:
Whoa. How would it feel to know you only won your Oscar (in a tie, no less) because someone bended the rules for you and you voted for yourself??
Somehow I feel like that would take a little of the joy out of it.
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