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Canadian film-maker Sarah Polley has shared a \u201ccruel\u201d April Fools\u2019 joke played on her by none other than her 11-year-old child.<\/p>\n
A letter turned up on Saturday morning, reading \u201cWe say this to you with the deepest regrets: the Oscar you received was given by mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n
Polley won the best-adapted screenplay for Women Talking at the 95th Academy Awards in Los Angeles last month.<\/p>\n
The letter, posted on Twitter, asked her to \u201cmail it back\u201d to California.<\/p>\n
It said she could keep the award for one more week so she could \u201cenjoy its presence\u201d in her home.<\/p>\n
But ultimately, it needed to be returned so it could go to the \u201crightful\u201d winner: All Quiet on the Western Front.<\/p>\nSarah Polley won the Best Adapted Screenplay award for Women Talking<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\u201cWe are sorry for your loss, but it is only fair that the play with the\u00a0real<\/em>\u00a0best-adapted screenplay gets the Oscar.\u201d<\/p>\n
Polley\u2019s child went on to joke that Oscar bosses had realised their error on the day the award was given \u2013 but wanted to avoid another blunder like\u00a0La La Land being named winner of Best Picture in 2017 instead of Moonlight.<\/p>\n
The filmmaker behind All Quiet on the Western Front, Edward Berger, got in on the joke.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo save on mailing costs as I live overseas the Academy has asked me to provide you with my address so you can ship the Oscar directly,\u201d he tweeted to Polley.<\/p>\n
\u201cI will follow up shortly. Ok with you?\u201d<\/p>\n
Polley, who shot to fame as an actor in the 1990s, swiftly realised the letter was not written by the Academy, but by her child as an April Fools\u2019 Day prank.<\/p>\n
But she made it clear she wasn\u2019t impressed \u2013 saying her 11-year-old \u201cswung low\u201d for April Fools\u2019 Day.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe feel it is wrong you get this on 1 April as you will probably think it is a joke, and we feel that is wrong, so another letter will be sent assuring you that this is not a joke,\u201d the letter said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is much too cruel to be a joke, ergo we deeply apologise for any inconvenience we may have caused you.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Canadian film-maker Sarah Polley has shared a \u201ccruel\u201d April Fools\u2019 joke played on her by none other than her 11-year-old child. A letter turned up on Saturday morning, reading \u201cWe say this to you with the deepest regrets: the Oscar you received was given by mistake.\u201d Polley won the best-adapted screenplay for Women Talking at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"yoast_head":"\n
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