It was a big week for awards ceremonies, what with the Oscars and all, but you may have missed the Czech Film and Television Academy amongst all that excitement. 

One man who never misses that ceremony, a date which we presume he has circled in his calendar every year, is Jim Carrey, who was paying close attention to it this year, because apparently he was there, unbeknownst to himself. 

As it turns out, it was actually a man pretending to be Jim Carrey, who managed to fool the organisers of the awards by showing up with a translator and a team of bodyguards to make it look legit. Hari Zinhasovic is the name of the man involved, and it seems that they really did believe he was Jim himself, even giving him a confetti gun to celebrate...um, himself or something? We're not really clear why he had that on stage if we're honest. 

Speaking to the Prague-based daily paper Blesk the day after the ceremony took place, awards host Lucie Vyborn was confident that the man later revealed to be Hari was the real deal, saying "Of course the real Jim Carrey was on the stage. I knew that he would come but I did not know what he would do there." 

The organisers did eventually review the footage and issued a statement admitting that they had been the victims of an elaborate hoax after all. Who could possibly have known? In all fairness, they're the spitting image of one another, provided that you squint in the dark and stand at least 250 metres away. 

Anyway, Jim himself got wind of the news and tweeted about it, so maybe the Czech Film and Television Academy will be able to get in touch with him for next year's awards...

Via Mashable