During the 98th Oscars on March 15, the Academy announced a rare two-way split with both “Two People Exchanging Saliva” and “The Singers” taking home the prize for the best live action short film.
Only the seventh tie in Oscar history, the result was a surprise to the audience in the room, presenter Kumail Nanjiani and many watching at home — except for a group of film festival programmers over 600 miles away in Provo, Utah.
Founded in 2014 by Jonathan Martin, the annual genre festival FilmQuest covers fantasy, sci-fi and horror and received over 2,300 submissions in 2025, according to Martin. Among those were “The Singers,” which
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