Roman Polanski Will Not Attend Cesar Awards

Roman Polanski will not be taking the stage on Friday when the French film industry hands out its top honors, the Cesar Awards.

Polanski on Thursday announced, via French news service AFP, that he will not be attending the French equivalent of the Oscars this year., leads the nominations this year with 12, including for best director and best film. But Polanski has also been the target of a storm of criticism and controversy due to past allegations of sexual assault. The 86-year-old director and Oscar winner has been a fugitive from U.S. justice since 1978 for the statutory rape of a 13-year-old girl.

Earlier this month, the academy's board of directors abruptly announced their collective resignation, complaining about the lack of diversity among this year's nominees and a general lack of transparency, particularly fiscal transparency, within the organization., signed by some 400 of the country's leading filmmakers, which called the Academy's leadership dysfunctional and "a vestige of an era that we would like to be over, that of an elitist and closed system.

The Academy said it would hold a general assembly of its members after this year's Cesars, which will be held Feb. 28 in Paris, to elect a new board.

GOOD!

William Shatner MURDERED 2 OF HIS WIFES IN A HOT TUB California special surf DEAD PENALTY!!!!!! Why in GODS NAME AREN T THEY ARRESTED CALIFORNIA

Can we finally cancel Roman Pedolanski... it isn't like he tweeted something random and offensive one day.

He deserves it 1000%!!!! Women FORGIVENESS BY GOD!!!!!!!

Seperate the man from the art! Can´t a creep make a good film? What, are we going to burn books again? Hopefully not.

Says a lot when pedophiles and rapists can still work in the movie industry and others are blacklisted simply because of their political views.

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