Les Misérables
' Alexis Manenti, who plays a racist cop, picked up the best male newcomer César, while the pic also received the public Cesar, voted on by the French film-going audience, and the best editing honor for Flora Volpelière. But the French Film Academy ignored a street full of protesters and a furious army of online critics to give Polanski its top directing honor.
A scandal of another sort, concerning the award's operating model and corporate leadership, led to an industry-wide revolt last year that resulted in the resignation of long-time César Academy president Alain Terzian, along with the rest of the 21-member board of governors. This year's ceremony is the first Césars since the overhaul. One of the new management's greatest accomplishments has been to achieve gender parity within the administration board of the Association for the Promotion of Cinema , the organization that oversees the Cesar Academy.
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