Sarah Polley Instructed To Return Her Oscar In ‘Cruel’ April Fool’s Day Prank From Her 11-Year-Old Daughter

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Sarah Polley won her first Academy Award this year, taking home the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for “Women Talking” — which led to an epic April Fool’s Day prank courtesy of her 11-year-old daughter.

The Canadian actor-turned-director took to social media on Saturday, April 1 to reveal that she received an official-looking letter demanding she return the statue because there had been an error, with the Oscar supposed to have gone to “All Quiet on the Western Front”. “We are giving you one more week to enjoy its presence in your home, but after that period of time you must mail it back to LA, where we will give it to the rightful best adapted screenplay: ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’.

We are sorry for your loss, but it is only fair that the play with the real best adapted screenplay gets the Oscar,” reads the letter, which she posted on Twitter. READ MORE: Sarah Polley Reveals Why Seth Rogen Was ‘Laughing So Hard At Me’ After She Won An Oscar “In hindsight, we should have told you when we realized it, on the night on which the Oscar was given, but you must understand we did not want another ‘Year of the Moonlight’, and we also did not want it to get all over your local news, as the citizens of Toronto would probably be quite irritated, and we do not want this news getting out,” continued the letter, which included the forged signature of Academy president David Rubin. “We 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,” the letter added. “This is much too cruel to be a joke, ergo we deeply apologize for any inconvenience we may have caused you.” Polley captioned the post, “My