Message received. The management of the Cesars announced Thursday evening his "collective resignation", 15 days before the next annual ceremony, against a background of crisis, between denunciation of the opacity of the management of the Academy and the Polanski controversy.
"To honor those who made cinema in 2019, to regain serenity and make the cinema festival a celebration, the board of directors of the Association for the Promotion of Cinema (Academy of Arts and Technology of Cinema) took the unanimous decision to resign. This collective resignation will make it possible to proceed to the complete renewal of the direction ”, indicates the Academy chaired since 2003 by the producer Alain Terzian.
Two hundred personalities from French cinema, including Omar Sy, Bertrand Tavernier, Céline Sciamma and Agnès Jaoui had called for a "thorough reform" of the Académie des César, in a column published on Monday evening on the Le Monde website.
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