How A (Kinda) Twilight Zone Episode Won an Oscar

SyFy shares how “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” won an Academy Award for Best Live-Action Short Subject in 1964.

The Twilight Zone (which regularly airs on SYFY) is one of the most celebrated and influential pieces of genre television ever produced, a landmark of the medium that inspired virtually every science fiction and suspense series that came after it in one way or another. Over the course of its run, the show won two Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe for its creator and host, Rod Serling, cementing its place as a television hit. Then, somehow, as its final season was still airing, The Twilight Zone also made its way to the Oscars stage… sort of.

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