'Shame': Walkouts at French Oscars as Roman Polanski wins best director

📆 29/02/2020 16:02:00
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Actor Adele Haenel led the walk-out after the 86-year-old director’s win at the César Awards.

Image: ABACA/PA Images Image: ABACA/PA Images ROMAN POLANSKI WON best director for “An Officer and a Spy” at a fractious ceremony for the French Oscars, the Césars, that ended in walkouts and recrimination in Paris.

And France’s Culture Minister Franck Riester had warned that giving the maker of “Rosemary’s Baby” a César would be “symbolically bad given the stance we must take against sexual and sexist violence”. Related Read 29.12.19 What it was like to set up a rape crisis centre in an Ireland that was 'so punishing of women'

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