During the 45th ceremony in 2020, Adèle Haenel, a French actress playing the main character in "Portrait of a Lady on Fire" left the room when Roman Polanski's award for best director was announced in protest against the fact that notable sexual abusers in the film industry can receive awards when their victims are reduced to silence. Polanski was convicted of unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old in California in 1978, and has additionally been accused of other incidents of rape.