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Top nominee Polanski to skip French Oscars after rape claim

by Associated Press
| February 27, 2020 5:05 AM

PARIS (AP) — Filmmaker Roman Polanski is skipping the awards ceremony for France's equivalent of the Oscars — where his latest movie leads this year's nominations — because of protests prompted by a new rape accusation against him.

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