And the Honorary Cesar is awarded to… no one. Friday, during the 45th Cesar ceremony - which will be broadcast live from 9 p.m. live and in the clear on Canal + -, no statuette of honor will be awarded ... A first since the ceremony was created in 1976. The recent storm that rocked the Academy of Caesars until the resignation of all of its management on February 13 was right in the desire of the president (outgoing) Alain Terzian to seek a winner for this award.
The quest for an honorary "Caesarean" for 2020 had nevertheless started under excellent auspices. According to our information, Brad Pitt had been approached long weeks ago ... And had accepted the offer of the Academy, before finally retracting. The office of Caesar then offered the statuette to other American stars, but negotiations were unsuccessful. Caught in the turmoil of the past few weeks, Alain Terzian did not have time to find a successor to Robert Redford, who came last year to seek a statuette for his entire long career.
A decidedly cursed 2020 edition
Certainly, this 2020 edition seems cursed. Wednesday morning, the Academy of Caesar woke up with new decorations. "Collages feminicides", a feminist collective, stuck up signs on the night of February 25 to 26 on which were written "Violanski the Caesar of shame" or "Violanski: do you really want to live in a world where a pedophile criminal is nominated 12 times for César awards? "
While the twelve nominations collected by "J'accuse", the latest film by Roman Polanski, are controversial after a new accusation of rape, the director of Polish origin said that he would stay at home Friday evening.
Monday, in an interview with the "New York Times", actress Adèle Haenel estimated that France had "completely missed the boat" of #MeToo. “To distinguish Polanski is to spit in the faces of all the victims. It means: it is not so serious to rape women ", declared the one who accused director Christophe Ruggia in November of" repeated touching "... She is also named this year in the category" best actress "for his interpretation in "Portrait of the young girl on fire" by Céline Sciamma.
