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(14 Feb 2020) FULL BOARD OF FRANCE'S CESAR FILM AWARDS STEPS DOWN
The entire leadership of the Cesar Awards, France's version of the Oscars, has stepped down in a spat over its opaque decision-making process and a dispute involving director Roman Polanski, whose new film leads this year's nominations.
The decision by the academy's influential board to resign came Thursday (13 FEB. 2020) evening, just two weeks before the glitzy 2020 award ceremony.
Multiple nominations for Polanski's "An Officer and a Spy" triggered calls by feminist groups for a boycott. Polanski has rejected allegations by a French woman that he assaulted her in 1975. The scandal over the nominations was the last straw for the academy's board, already roiled by the closed nature of the age-old award's decision-making structure.
Polanski has been a fugitive from the U.S. for more than four decades after pleading guilty in 1977 to unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl. He fled the U.S. in 1978. But in November, French daily Le Parisien reported claims from a French woman that she was assaulted at age 18 in 1975 by Polanski at his chalet in Gstaad, Switzerland.
The awards ceremony is set for Feb. 28.

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