Photoforward | The Lucie Awards Recap: International Photographer of the Year Has a Tie, and Presentations by Ann Curry, Graham Nash and Fran Drescher

The 13th annual Lucie Awards (known in the industry as the “Oscars of Photography”) was held last night, October 27, in New York City’s Carnegie Hall, and got underway with “a first,” according to Susan Baraz, the Lucie’s co-chair and head of judging at the International Photography Awards: as she tore open the first envelope of the evening containing the winner of the International Photographer of the Year, Baraz let out a gasp—”There’s a tie!”