Director Roman Polanski won best director honors at the Berlin International Film Festival for his new film The Ghost Writer, starring Pierce Brosnan. Polanski was unable to attend the ceremony because he remains under house arrest in Switzerland pending extradition stemming from a 1977 U.S. conviction for having sex with a minor.
Feb 21
2010
01:15 PM ET
Roman Polanski wins best director at Berlin
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But he’s such a monster!! blah blah blah
So I guess in Berlin they are ok with guys raping 13 year old little girls. You go Berlin.
They probably have a complex since he is a Holocaust survivor and everything. They owe him HUGE.
What a despicable human being. But I suppose that shouldn’t matter, if he did the best directorial job then that’s all that should matter.
U morons, they honor artistic merit and Mr Polanski is a true artist. Give him a break at least artistically speaking. Truly a wonderful filmmaker!