The institution has announced that any person indicted or guilty of such facts cannot be invited or be represented at the evening of rewards.
MO12345LEMONDE with AFP
Enlightened by controversies in recent years, the Academy of Césars has been trying to restore its image. The institution of French cinema decided on Monday January 2 on Monday, to withdraw, for its next ceremony, the people implicated “for acts of violence”.
This decision follows the Sofiane Bennacer affair, a young actor revealed in the almond trees and indicted for rape, and occurs three years after the consecration of the Roman director Polanski, who had been controversial. “Out of respect for the victims (even presumed in the event of indictment or non -final conviction), it was decided not to highlight people who would be implicated by justice for acts of violence,” said Affirmed the Academy of Césars on Monday, in a press release.
Thus, if one of the names is indicted for acts of violence, for example sexual or sexist, or condemned, he cannot be invited to the ceremony of February 24, nor to any of the events that are associated. “This background will also exclude any speaking” in the name of this person “during these same events – including if a César should be awarded to him after the second round”, continues the Academy.
Memories of other rekindled cases
This decision was made for the 2023 ceremony, following the indictment, at the end of November, for rape and violence on the spouse of actor Sofiane Bennacer. The one who held, with the almond trees, from Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, his first big role on the screen had been retained in the list of thirty revelations from the Césars, before being emergency, when the legal proceedings at Its undergoing was made public.
The Academy of Césars had in the wake planned to modify its regulations. Work will take place in this sense in the first semester, “faced with the magnitude and complexity of these questions, from a moral and legal point of view”.
For professionals of the 7 e art, the accusations against Sofiane Bennacer had recalled the memory of Roman Polanski, regularly caught up in accusations of sexual abuse, and the indictments of actors Like Gérard Depardieu and Ary Abittan for accusations of rape, which they dispute.