Entertainers Who Turned Down Major Awards

Roman Polanski Couldn’t Accept This Award

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Roman Polanski is a polarizing figure in Hollywood. He’s won numerous awards for his work including a Golden Globe for Chinatown and an Academy Award for The Pianist. It appears like Hollywood has more or less ignored his actual crimes.

Polanski has a sordid history marred by child sexual assault charges stemming all the way back to 1977. He even once admitted that “everyone wants to [expletive] young girls” in an interview that became even more disturbing once you factor in his fifth, most recent, sexual abuse allegation. It was these very allegations that led him to reject his Academy Award in 2003.