Sarah Polley

The Canadian writer and director says she received a letter purporting to be from the Academy, which described her award for best adapted screenplay as a ...

Would hate for it to get lost." Berger added: "Thank you. All best, Edward." "I will follow up shortly. But the 44-year-old said she received a letter on April Fools' Day purportedly from the academy which described the best adapted screenplay award as a "mistake". The Canadian writer and director says she received a letter purporting to be from the Academy, which described her award for best adapted screenplay as a "mistake", in a prank by her 11-year-old daughter.

The Canadian filmmaker won her Academy Award for Women Talking.

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 winner All Quiet on the Western Front.” The letter stated that organisers had realised their error on the night, but were keen to avoid another La La Land/Moonlight blunder in front of the cameras. [Sarah Polley](https://deadline.com/tag/sarah-polley/) has 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.

Polley won her Academy Award for Women Talking, starring Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Ben Whishaw and Frances McDormand, in Los Angeles last month. The 44-year- ...

He wrote: “Dear Sarah, to 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. The letter said Polley had “one more week to enjoy it” but then she must “mail it back to LA where we will give it to the rightful best adapted screenplay, All Quiet On The Western Front”. The 44-year-old shared on Twitter a letter she received on April Fools Day purportedly from the academy, which read: “We say this to you with the deepest regrets: the Oscar you received was given by mistake, you must return it.”

The Canadian filmmaker was very much swindled by her 11-year-old daughter this year for April Fools' Day!

[April Fools Day](https://www.unilad.com/celebrity/heidi-klum-fake-pregnancy-april-fools-prank-074526-20230402) this year," the actor shared a picture of a letter (supposedly from the Academy) explaining that the Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award she won a few months ago for Women Talking needed to be returned. The letter then stressed how despite it arriving on April 1st, it is absolutely not an April Fools' joke and, as it quotes: "Is much too cruel to be a joke, ergo we deeply apologize for any inconvenience we may have caused you." In perhaps what could be the most heart-dropping April Fools' prank this year, Sarah Polley was well and truly caught out by her daughter with a convincing letter asking her to return her recently won Oscar.