PARIS - The entire board of the Cesar Academy, France's equivalent of the Oscars, resigned on Thursday just two weeks ahead of its gala award night after more than 200 actors, producers, directors and movie personalities demanded"profound reform".
"To honour those men and women who made cinema happen in 2019, to find calm and ensure that the festival of film remains just that, a festival, the board... has unanimously decided to resign," the academy said in a statement.A general meeting will be held after the upcoming awards ceremony to elect a new board and management which will work on implementing reforms and modernisation, it said.
The academy's board in response said it would ask the National Centre for Cinema, a culture ministry agency, to appoint a mediator to oversee"deep reform" of its statutes and governance.
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