Every vote counts

April 14, 1969
During the live broadcast of the 41st annual Academy Awards Ceremony, (the first Oscar ceremony to be televised worldwide,) it was announced that Katherine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand tied for the Best Actress Oscar on this date.

Both Streisand and Hepburn received 3,030 votes each; it was the first exact tie in a principal Oscar category. It has been noted that had Streisand not (presumably) cast her ballot for herself, Hepburn would have won the Oscar. By one vote.

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