Recent Oscar winnerSarah Polleyhas revealed her huge shock on Saturday morning at receiving a letter saying she had won her award in error, and she needed to mail it back to the Academy.
The Canadian filmmaker, who won best adapted screenplay forWomen Talkinglast month, was told:
We say this to you with the deepest regrets: the Oscar you received was given by mistake.
The letter asked her to mail it back to California, saying she could keep the award for one more week so she could enjoy its presence in her home, before it went to the rightful winnerAll Quiet on the Western Front.
Sarah Polley winning her Oscar on March 12Kevin Winter/Getty Images
The letter stated that organisers had realised their error on the night, but were keen to avoid anotherLaLa Land/Moonlightblunder in front of the cameras.
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And then… Polley discovered that the letter had not come from the Academy, but from her 11-year-old child, in an extremely effective April Fools prank.
As Polley said in the letter she shared on Twitter yesterday, her child swung low this year…
My eleven-year-old swung low for April Fools Day this year.#AprilFoolsDaypic.twitter.com/WvJxMIRBfL
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