French awards off the rails

The bosses of the Cesar Awards, France’s version of the Oscars, are to resign en masse after protests against leading nominee Roman Polanski threatened to derail the Feb. 20 event, Variety reports. Board director Alain Terzian and at least four other members are to quit after the ceremony. The academy has also vowed to overhaul its operations. Feminists and others protested when Polanski’s Officer and a Spy earned the most nominations even though the director recently faced another accusation of rape dating from time he fled a separate U.S. rape case in 1978.