 When accepting his Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film,  director (Fernando Trueba (qv)) said: "I would like to believe in  God in order to thank him for this prize, but I only believe in  (Billy Wilder (qv)), so... Thank you, Mr. Wilder!". Wilder himself  reportedly phoned Trueba a few days later for acknowledgment and  told him: "Hello Fernando, Im God".