{"id":132071,"date":"2020-02-14T01:29:55","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T00:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/02\/14\/leadership-of-french-oscars-resigns-amid-polanski-controversy\/"},"modified":"2020-02-14T01:29:55","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T00:29:55","slug":"leadership-of-french-oscars-resigns-amid-polanski-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=132071","title":{"rendered":"Leadership of &#039;French Oscars&#039; resigns amid Polanski controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The French film academy says their unanimous resignation was to honour the filmmakers and \u2018regain serenity\u2019 of the festivalThe management of the \u201cFrench Oscars\u201d resigned en masse on Thursday after weeks of controversy centred on director Roman Polanski, whose latest film An Officer and a Spy leads nominations ahead of the 2020 awards ceremony.The resignations come just two weeks before the Cesar Awards, France\u2019s equivalent of the Oscars, which featured 12 nominations for Polanski\u2019s movie about Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish French officer unfairly accused of spying for Germany in the 1890s. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2020\/feb\/14\/leadership-of-french-oscars-resigns-amid-polanski-controversy\" target=\"_blank\">Leadership of &#039;French Oscars&#039; resigns amid Polanski controversy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The French film academy says their unanimous resignation was to honour the filmmakers and \u2018regain serenity\u2019 of the festivalThe management of the \u201cFrench Oscars\u201d resigned en masse on Thursday after weeks of controversy centred on director Roman Polanski, whose latest film An Officer and a Spy leads nominations ahead of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}