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...Best Director.” You see, I don’t consider the film’s Oscar triumphs unexpected because The Pianist was a bad movie—it wasn’t. Rather, the controversial nomination and recognition of the film’s director, Roman Polanski, gave me pause. As I read across the box, I remembered the way I felt on Oscar night: it’s too bad that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences chose to honor such a unscrupulous and immoral...
...fair, I didn’t know all that much about Roman Polanski when he won his award. I knew he was recognized for edgy, “brutally honest” type films and I recalled some controversy surrounding his nomination. I was also surprised that an organization as self-conscious as the Academy would concede an award to such a questionable figure. But I did a bit of research on the Oscar winner and found that I should not be surprised at the Academy; I should be disgusted...
...controversial marriage left him stigmatized. The scandal-loving media had a field day. Yet, in the end, he’d done nothing illegal. Sure, judgments of immorality are up to individual inclinations, but you’d think that after committing such a horrible crime against a minor, Polanski would forever be an industry pariah. His actions were inexcusable and disgusting. That we are extolling him for his work is unbelievable...
...same stage? At least Liz and Liza missed only a photo op. Last night three men won Oscars and still couldn't be there: Eminem (best song, from "8 Mile") because he's a shy person, Conrad Hall (cinematography, "Road to Perdition") because he is dead, and Polanski because there is an outstanding warrant for his arrest...
...Polanski, once described by Kenneth Tynan as "the five foot Pole you wouldn't want to touch with a ten-foot pole," was charged with drugging and sodomizing 13-year-old Samantha Gailery 26 years ago this month in the jacuzzi of Jack Nicholson's house. (The transcript of Gaillery's 1977 deposition can be read on thesmokinggun.com.) He fled the country when a plea bargain he'd negotiated was in jeopardy of being overturned. But Hollywood loves to forgive old reprobates; it is a way of congratulating them and its own sense of liberality. In 1972 Oscar welcomed back...