Latest Oscar winner Sarah Polley has revealed her big shock on Saturday morning at receiving a letter saying she had gained her award in error, and she or he wanted to mail it again to the Academy.
The Canadian filmmaker, who gained greatest tailored screenplay for Women Talking final month, was instructed:
“We are saying this to you with the deepest regrets: the Oscar you acquired was given by mistake.”
The letter requested her to “mail it again” to California, saying she may hold the award for another week so she may “take pleasure in its presence” in her house, earlier than it went to the “rightful winner All Quiet on the Western Entrance.”
The letter acknowledged that organisers had realised their error on the evening, however had been eager to keep away from one other La La Land/Moonlight blunder in entrance of the cameras.
After which… Polley found that the letter had not come from the Academy, however from her 11-year-old youngster, in a particularly efficient April Idiot’s prank.
As Polley stated within the letter she shared on Twitter yesterday, her youngster “swung lengthy” this 12 months…
