Leadership of `French Oscars` resigns amid Polanski controversy
(The Guardian Culture News)

The French film academy says unanimous resignation was to honour the film-makers and `regain calm´ of the festivalThe entire board of the César awards, France´s equivalent of the Oscars, has resigned two weeks before its gala ceremony amid growing controversy over the director Roman Polanski, whose film An Officer and a Spy leads the 2020 nominations.More than 400 actors, producers, directors and film personalities had earlier demanded the `profound reform` of the César academy, denouncing its dysfunction and the opaqueness of its processes, in an open letter published on Wednesday. Continue reading...