One of the most embarrassing moments in Academy Awards history was the La La Land/Moonlight Best Picture mixup during the 2017 ceremony. Now, according to Sarah Polley’s 11-year-old daughter, on April Fool’s Day, another mixup like that one has tragically happened, and it involves her mom’s Oscar for Women Talking. So the youngster took it upon herself to inform her mother about the news in the most hilariously savage, well-written April Fool’s Day prank, maybe ever.
Last month, Sarah Polley won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for Women Talking. This was such an exciting moment for everyone, especially considering the movie was snubbed in many other categories this year. However, according to Sarah Polley’s daughter (or David Rubin as the letter is “signed”), this was all a mistake, and in actuality, Netflix’s All Quiet on the Western Front was supposed to win the sought-after writing award. The letter goes on to list off the various reasons why Polley needs to return her gold statue, and it is genuinely hilarious. The Women Talking writer posted the note she received from the version of The Academy that’s run by her young child to Instagram for the world to see:
