Decision comes two weeks before award ceremony; director fugitive from US for 4 decades over rape conviction

Head of France's film academy says it 'should not take moral positions' when evaluating movies, prompting outcry that award could go to director wanted in US for statutory rape

Jewish director accused of rape was set to speak at Lodz institute, which had rejected online calls to withdraw invitation

Defying calls for boycott of 'An Officer and a Spy,' hundreds of thousands flock to see movie about anti-Semitic persecution of French Jewish army officer Alfred Dreyfus

As viewers flock to celebrated film 'An Officer and a Spy,' about the anti-Semitism case, some say director's talent doesn't exonerate him

Interviews to promote his new film have been either canceled or pulled since a French photographer claimed the director attacked her in 1975

Attorneys for French-Polish-Jewish movie mogul could take action against Le Parisien; France's guild of authors and directors may soon meet to exclude him from organization

Valentine Monnier says director, whose film on Alfred Dreyfus premieres next week, assaulted her at Swiss ski resort in 1975

Film about persecuted French Jewish army officer claims second place despite fierce controversy surrounding its director for rape conviction

Film about persecuted French Jewish army officer claims critics' prize, despite controversy surrounding director in #MeToo era