Rapist Roman Polanski wins Best Director at the César Awards (French film awards); Audience members leave the theatre

Rouk' · Feb 28, 2020

This is fucking disgusting

Polanski himself was not present out of fear of a "public lynching"

The first person leaving is Adèle Heanel (who plays in Portrait of a Lady on Fire), she can be heard saying "La honte!" ("Shameful!")

Florence Foresti, the host, refused to stay for the rest of the ceremony, saying she was feeling "sickened" ("écoeurée")

PanSexual_Peacock · Feb 28, 2020

I don't understand why France stays stanning for this creep.

xxracerxx · Feb 28, 2020

Good on them all.

hordak · Feb 28, 2020

Fuck that dude. The fact that he is not rotting in prison for drugging and anally raping a thirteen year old girl is beyond comprehension. It's like rich white guy privilege times a million. How he still gets support from production companies, crew members and artists I will never know.

Deleted member 31817 · Feb 28, 2020

Gross. Good on the people who walked out.

Deleted member 21709 · Feb 28, 2020

hordak said:
Fuck that dude. The fact that he is not rotting in prison for drugging and anally raping a thirteen year old girl is beyond comprehension. It's like rich white guy privilege times a million. How he still gets support from production companies, crew members and artists I will never know.

tHe TiMeS wErE dIfFeReNt

Era Uma Vez · Feb 28, 2020

Never forget when all those Hollywood cunts gave a standing ovation to that piece of shit:

Also, the balls on these fuckers to still have this video up, from the official Oscars youtube channel, jesus christ.

Furisu · Feb 28, 2020

Just disgraceful. It's a real shame that there are still a lot of (prominent) actors who are willing to work with him.

Alderade · Feb 28, 2020

I'm ashamed to be french today.

Nikus · Feb 28, 2020

Ah, I was about to make a thread.
Yeah, fucking shameful.

More about it: https://www.theguardian.com/film/20...rs-cesars-row-over-roman-polanski-nominations
Quote from Adèle Haenel, who was the first to leave:

Adèle Haenel, the star of Portrait de la Jeune Fille en Feu (Portrait of a Lady on Fire), which has also been nominated for a César, warned she would boycott the event if Polanski attended. She has accused another French director, Christophe Ruggia, of sexually harassing her when she was 12.

"Distinguishing Polanski is spitting in the face of all victims," Haenel told the New York Times, adding that nominating him "means raping women isn't that bad".

Messofanego · Feb 28, 2020

Props for Adele Hainel and the rest for leaving. She was amazing in Portrait, glad to see she won't stand for this. It is indeed shameful of the French film industry.

Yams · Feb 28, 2020

Good job on that walk out

Flaurehn · Feb 28, 2020

hordak said:
Fuck that dude. The fact that he is not rotting in prison for drugging and anally raping a thirteen year old girl is beyond comprehension. It's like rich white guy privilege times a million. How he still gets support from production companies, crew members and artists I will never know.

"I worked with him and he was the nicest person!"

TacomaSCDisaster · Feb 28, 2020

I am still completely baffled as to why so many people in show business hold a known rapist in such high regard. The likes of Weinstein and his abuse of power are one thing, but directors and actors weren't out there signing petitions defending him like they do for Polanski.

Neece · Feb 28, 2020

Rouk' said:
The first person leaving is Adèle Heanel (who plays in Portrait of a Lady on Fire), she can be heard saying "La honte!" ("Shameful!")

Florence Foresti, the host, refused to stay for the rest of the ceremony, saying she was feeling "sickened" ("écoeurée")

Good for them

Gentlemen · Feb 28, 2020

That awkward pause and gesturing after "And the nominees are..." says it all. What a disgrace the board and voters have created.

El Bombastico · Feb 28, 2020

aGuyInaBearSuit said:
I am still completely baffled as to why so many people in show business hold a known rapist in such high regard. The likes of Weinstein and his abuse of power are one thing, but directors and actors weren't out there signing petitions defending him like they do for Polanski.

Weinstein was a jerk who never played ball with the other big shots and made enemies with a lot of people in Hollywood, hence why when he fell, they were ALL TOO HAPPY to make him persona non grata.

Polanski, on the other hand, is friends and has connections with a lot of the big wigs (basically any of the assholes who gave him a standing ovation for his Oscar win).

Rouk' · Feb 28, 2020

Gentlemen said:
That awkward pause and gesturing after "And the nominees are..." says it all. What a disgrace the board and voters have created.

The video is from after he won, so the nominees that were about to be presented were for the Best Picture award, but yeah, you could feel things were awkward

Strider_Blaze · Feb 28, 2020

Era Uma Vez said:
Never forget when all those Hollywood cunts gave a standing ovation to that piece of shit:

Also, the balls on these fuckers to still have this video up, from the official Oscars youtube channel, jesus christ.

Just so I get this straight, this was after Polanski was exposed for rape, right?

Also fuck this shit! Can't believe people will still work for Polanski! Good on the actors and other attendees for walking out.

Sordid Plebeian · Feb 28, 2020

Fuck him, he does not deserve the talent he holds

Wracu · Feb 28, 2020

Era Uma Vez said:
Never forget when all those Hollywood cunts gave a standing ovation to that piece of shit:

Also, the balls on these fuckers to still have this video up, from the official Oscars youtube channel, jesus christ.

Let's especially not forget it happened at Jack Nicholson's house and he's there clapping along. Someone drugged and raped a 13 year old in your house and you're out here cheering for him.

Meows · Feb 28, 2020

Good on them for walking out.

Neece said:

Keep in mind Polanski raped that girl in Jack Nicholson's home... and there he is, applauding and standing up for him.

kmfdmpig · Feb 28, 2020

Good for Adèle. She's right that it is shameful. It's bad enough that that POS is given sanctuary there and treated as if he's more than a sack of shit wrapped in skin. To give him awards is just ridiculous.

Murfield · Feb 28, 2020

Strider_Blaze said:
Just so I get this straight, this was after Polanski was exposed for rape, right?

Also fuck this shit! Can't believe people will still work for Polanski! Good on the actors and other attendees for walking out.

I thought he fled the US years before this, to avoid being arrested. Other people in this thread may know better.

jml · Feb 28, 2020

Strider_Blaze said:
Just so I get this straight, this was after Polanski was exposed for rape, right?

The whole reason he wasn't there to accept his award was because he was hiding away in Europe to avoid his rape charge.

IDreamOfHime · Feb 28, 2020

Strider_Blaze said:
Just so I get this straight, this was after Polanski was exposed for rape, right?

He's been on the run since 1978 and this is from 2002. Everyone in that room knew what he did.

Gentlemen · Feb 28, 2020

aGuyInaBearSuit said:
I am still completely baffled as to why so many people in show business hold a known rapist in such high regard. The likes of Weinstein and his abuse of power are one thing, but directors and actors weren't out there signing petitions defending him like they do for Polanski.

Weinstein's fall came abruptly because partly of its timing (i.e. with an unrepentant serial assaulter and rapist in the white house). Societies tolerate and paper over abuses of power as long as some things are going okay. In times where nothing feels okay the cultural tipping point is much closer. Polanski had his detractors but it took the water rising to its current levels for this degree of reaction to emerge at all. Polanski remains a free and protected man thanks to that significant timing gap.

Hrodulf · Feb 28, 2020

PanSexual_Peacock said:
I don't understand why France stays stanning for this creep.

I mean, a disturbingly large portion of the film industry as a whole does.

Adventureracing · Feb 28, 2020

Disgusting. What else can you say?

Ridley327 · Feb 28, 2020

Murfield said:
I thought he fled the US years before this, to avoid being arrested. Other people in this thread may know better.

He fled back in 1978 when he realized that he was not going to avoid serious jail time. If he sets foot in the US or a country with an extradition treaty with the US, he gets immediately arrested and shipped out back to California to face justice.

Era Uma Vez · Feb 28, 2020

Yes, he won the Oscar in 2003, 25 years after being charged with rape.
And like jml pointed out, he wasn't there to receive his own oscar, that the Academy so happily gave him, cuz if he was, he would've been arrested.

Also, fuck Jack Nicholson. I'm surprised he hasn't gotten "MeTooed", he looks, sounds, and acts like a major creep.

EDIT: Oh, and also fuck everyone who choose to keep working with this rapist cunt, that allowed him to keep making movies, and live a normal life, like he did nothing.

jelly · Feb 28, 2020

Film industry has a dark side, they probably don't have a problem with it because imagine the shit they get up to at parties.

SolidSnakex · Feb 28, 2020

Strider_Blaze said:
Just so I get this straight, this was after Polanski was exposed for rape, right?

Also fuck this shit! Can't believe people will still work for Polanski! Good on the actors and other attendees for walking out.

Oh, it's way after that. He was convicted in '78 and that Oscars took place in 2003.

PancakeBurglar · Feb 28, 2020

It's a shame such a talented director is such a piece of shit. Good on the people who walked out.

OneEyedKing · Feb 28, 2020

Adèle Haenel is wonderful, proud of her and everyone else for doing this.

Richietto · Feb 28, 2020

I don't know much about the people in the films industry but he did whaaaaaaaat??? And got away with it and most people just don't care??? Why would anyone applaud a known child rapist? Thats fuckin' disgusting.

Strider_Blaze · Feb 28, 2020

Murfield said:
I thought he fled the US years before this, to avoid being arrested. Other people in this thread may know better.

jml said:
The whole reason he wasn't there to accept his award was because he was hiding away in Europe to avoid his rape charge.

IDreamOfHime said:
He's been on the run since 1978 and this is from 2002. Everyone in that room knew what he did.

SolidSnakex said:
Oh, it's way after that. He was convicted in '78 and that Oscars took place in 2003.

Well holy shit!

*groans in frustration*

Z-Beat · Feb 28, 2020

That audience filing out

Z-Beat · Feb 28, 2020

Green Slime King said:
I don't know much about the people in the films industry but he did whaaaaaaaat??? And got away with it and most people just don't care??? Why would anyone applaud a known child rapist? Thats fuckin' disgusting.

That's Hollywood. LA Noire wasn't exaggerating with how fucked showbiz is. They get away with a LOT

Deleted member 9241 · Feb 28, 2020

PancakeBurglar said:
It's a shame such a talented director is such a piece of shit. Good on the people who walked out.

Yup. Ninth Gate is a personal favorite of mine.

Richietto · Feb 28, 2020

Z-Beat said:
That's Hollywood. LA Noire wasn't exaggerating with how fucked showbiz is. They get away with a LOT

The fact that people stayed is just... Fucked....

Ridley327 · Feb 28, 2020

Green Slime King said:
I don't know much about the people in the films industry but he did whaaaaaaaat??? And got away with it and most people just don't care??? Why would anyone applaud a known child rapist? Thats fuckin' disgusting.

Some of it, even a lot of it, is because of his sympathetic life story, from being a Holocaust survivor (he survived and escaped the emptying of the Krakow ghetto that should be very familiar to anyone that's seen Schindler's List) and the shocking death of his wife Sharon Tate and their unborn child at the hands of the Manson Family. That he also happens to be one of the most influential filmmakers the medium has ever seen also doesn't hurt his rep, as even before the rape case, actors were beating each other with sticks for a chance to work with him.

Deleted member 36054 · Feb 28, 2020

Why do people continue to work with him???

SolidSnakex · Feb 28, 2020

Strider_Blaze said:
Well holy shit!

*groans in frustration*

If you want to be even more frustrated, in 2008 he was arrested in Switzerland over the case. In response 100's of celebrities signed a petition asking for his release. Here's some notable names on it

Woody Allen
Wes Anderson
Asia Argento
Darren Aronofsky
Monica Bellucci
Terry Gilliam
Wong Kar Waï
John Landis
David Lynch
Michael Mann
Martin Scorcese
Tilda Swinton

But the kicker to it all was the person that distributed the petition, Harvey Weinstein.

Dizzy Ukulele · Feb 28, 2020

Neece said:
Good for them

And there's Martin Scorsese clapping a rapist alongside Harvey Weinstein. It's not a great look.

Ridley327 · Feb 28, 2020

Dizzy Ukulele said:
And there's Martin Scorsese clapping a rapist alongside Harvey Weinstein. It's not a great look.

Gangs of New York was up for a lot of awards that year (winning none of them), so it's not unusual that director and producer would sit near one another at the Oscars, even as we do know that things got heated between the two all throughout the production.

That being said, Scorsese has long been a true blue supporter of Polanski, so he'd be running up and down the aisles with or without a film competing against Polanski. Hell, he's probably happy at the fact that he got to lose to Polanski in his lifetime.

PanSexual_Peacock · Feb 28, 2020

Hrodulf said:
I mean, a disturbingly large portion of the film industry as a whole does.

That's true. What i really meant is why they keep honoring him with awards.

Deleted member 29660 · Feb 28, 2020

It's a pity someone can't go up to him, punch him and fly him back on a private plane to get the raping piece of shit charged.

DiipuSurotu · Feb 28, 2020

PanSexual_Peacock said:
That's true. What i really meant is why they keep honoring him with awards.

Basically they use the fact that Polanski's victim Samantha Geimer forgave him to say that we should let it go, or whatever.

Judge the Movie, Not the Man

Roman Polanski's 25-year-old crimes should not damage his chances for an Oscar, his victim says

www.latimes.com

fertygo · Feb 28, 2020

He still making film!?
Why he win this.

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