If you didn’t expect to see a masked man accepting a gold statue at the upcoming Academy Awards, then good – because you won’t. Academy president Tom Sherak and executive director Bruce Davis have ruled that international street artist and Oscar nominee Banksy won’t be allowed to take the stage in costume if his film, Exit Through the Gift Shop, should grab the award for Best Documentary.

The mysterious Banksy waited several months before revealing his association with the street art film, and potentially wanted to accept the award wearing a monkey mask. After much discussion at Monday’s Oscar nominees luncheon, Sherak and Davis decided that they simply could not cope with the idea of such “undignified” proceedings. One of the film’s producers, Jaimie D’Cruz, will be taking the stage on Banksy’s behalf. But, according to Sherak, he was only allowed to do so after the Academy ensured that there was no monkeying around with the paperwork: “We have a signed form and they were able to give us affidavits and enough legal stuff to make us feel comfortable that it really was he who signed it.”