PortraitOfALadyOnFire star Adele Haenel was one of many who walked out after Roman Polanski won best director at the CesarAwards
” went on to win a Goya Award, and was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe. The film is inspired by the 2005 French riots and follows three cops who find themselves overrun during the course of an arrest in a project.
Francois Ozon’s “By The Grace of God,” meanwhile, won one Cesar Award for best supporting actor . The Catholic church sexual abuse drama won last year’s Silver Bear at Berlin. The film’s producer Alain Goldman said on Friday that the team would boycott the ceremony due to what he perceived as “an escalation of inappropriate and violent language and behavior.” Goldman referred to the comment made by French culture minister Franck Riester on Thursday that “an award forThe nominations for Polanski’s film — one of his biggest successes with 1.
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