• Lesley Paterson stated that she once worked as a waiter at the Academy Awards.
• “I actually waited tables 18 years ago,” she told BBC.
• “I remember it being very overwhelming so goodness knows what it will be like on Sunday.”

Lesley Paterson, the screenwriter of All Quiet on the Western Front, stated that she once worked as a waiter at the Academy Awards.

“I actually waited tables 18 years ago,” she told BBC.

“It was all very exciting at the time. I remember having to go through all the security checks, then wondering who I would get on my table.

I had Judi Dench and Jennifer Lopez. I remember it being very overwhelming so goodness knows what it will be like on Sunday.”

The 42-year-old comments on the Oscars address following the Bafta incident when her statement was omitted.

“It’s so tough because you only get 45 seconds and there are three of us and we’ve been notified on a number of occasions that only one of us is allowed to speak and so obviously our director and co-writer Edward Berger will be the guy to speak,” she added.

“So the answer is, I really don’t know. I’d love to say a couple of sentences but we’ll just have to see how it pans out, if we should be so lucky.”

The WW2 anti-war drama, which Netflix produced, was nominated in nine categories.

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