The Oscar for live action short film culminated in a rare tie Sunday — only the sixth in the Academy Awards’ 98 years.

Kumail Nanjiani announced the surprising win, in what the audience initially read as a joke, with award going to “The Singers” and “Two People Exchanging Saliva.”

“Ironic that the short film Oscar’s gonna take twice as long,” said the “Big Sick” star and co-writer.

“You just ruined 22 million Oscar pools,” joked host Conan O’Brien. “This thing’s a humdinger, you gotta stay tuned!”

The shocking win was the first tie in more than a dozen years, the most recent of which was when “Skyfall” and “Zero Dark Thirty” shared the award for best sound editing in 2012.

The 1931/32 best actor win of Fredric March and Wallace Beery, for “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” and “The Champ” respectively, was the first tie by Academy standards, as March had just one more vote than Beery. Though “only an exact match” now constitutes a tie, the rules at the time awarded anything within three votes of the winner.

The first-ever true Oscars tie though was for best documentary (short subject) in 1949, shared by “A Chance to Live” and “So Much for So Little.”

There have never been two ties in the same decade. The next occurred nearly 20 years later, when Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand tied for best actress, the former for “The Lion in Winter,” the latter for “Funny Girl.”

In 1986, “Artie Shaw: Time Is All You’ve Got” and “Down and Out in America” shared the Oscar for best documentary (feature).

“Franz Kafka’s It’s a Wonderful Life” and “Trevor” then shared the award for best short film (live action) in 1994.

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