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Article: Fugitive Filmmaker Polanski Wins Oscar
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- March 24, 2003
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Dateline: LOS ANGELES
Roman Polanski, who's been a fugitive for the past quarter century
after pleading guilty to having sex with an underage girl, won the
best-director Oscar Sunday for "The Pianist."
But Polanski, who lives in France, couldn't attend the ceremony to
accept his first Academy Award because he faces arrest if he returns
to the United States.
There was no explanation for his absence; Harrison Ford, who announced
Polanski's victory, gave the standard line when a winner is absent:
"The Academy congratulates Roman Polanski and accepts this award on
his behalf."
Now 69, Polanski was charged with rape and five other felonies in
1977 ...