Roman Polanski Returns To Zurich, Director To Receive Lifetime Achievement Award

In 2009, the controversial director Roman Polanski left France and hopped aboard a plane to Switzerland, where he was to receive a lifetime achievement award.

But things did not go according to plan.

Despite being greeted by Swiss police and spending months under house arrest, the director will, again, make that same pilgrimage at the end of September.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Polanski will be traveling to Zurich to receive - and take home - the prestigious award. Though the trip may stir up unpleasant memories, because the Swiss courts released him two years ago, there should be no reason history will be repeating itself.

After the Oscar-winner's ceremony, the Zurich festival will host the world premiere of Polanski's rather hush-hush non-fiction film; the title will not be revealed until the night of the screening.

In the meantime, the director's star-studded 'Carnage,' featuring Kate Winslet, Jodie Foster, Christoph Waltz and John C. Reilly has been making a splash at the Venice Film Festival.

Even Winslet's kids loved it!

For more, click over to The Hollywood Reporter.

Comments

[Wake Up Call]

05:41 AM on 09/28/2011

It happened 40 years ago, and even the "victim" just wants everyone to forget about it. Move on.

[LoLo72]

08:28 AM on 09/16/2011

Drug & rape a child get a lifetime achievement award.

[LDW]

03:49 PM on 09/16/2011

Calvin Trillin said it best in his poem from The Nation, October 2009

"What Whoopi Goldberg (‘Not a Rape-Rape’), Harvey Weinstein (‘So-Called Crime’) et al. Are Saying in Their Outrage Over the Arrest of Roman Polanski

A youthful error? Yes, perhaps.
But he's been punished for this lapse--
For decades exiled from LA
He knows, as he wakes up each day,
He'll miss the movers and the shakers.
He'll never get to see the Lakers.
For just one old and small mischance,
He has to live in Paris, France.
He's suffered slurs and other stuff.
Has he not suffered quite enough?
How can these people get so riled?
He only raped a single child.

Why make him into some Darth Vader
For sodomizing one eighth grader?
This man is brilliant, that's for sure--
Authentically, a film auteur.
He gets awards that are his due.
He knows important people, too--
Important people just like us.
And we know how to make a fuss.
Celebrities would just be fools
To play by little people's rules.
So Roman's banner we unfurl.
He only raped one little girl."

[Kaleidoscope1]

08:50 PM on 09/15/2011

Barf.

[Helena Williamstom]

05:25 PM on 09/15/2011

It's too bad this talented director has a murky history. It will forever taint his golden glow.

[Jazz88105]

05:13 PM on 09/15/2011

When they said 'repeating history' I thought they meant raping another child.

[inapickle]

05:46 PM on 09/15/2011

That's what I was afraid of too. Lousy headlines are too common here.

[TaxpayingVoter]

01:52 AM on 09/16/2011

Actually, if you look at it from the perspective of what a headline is supposed to do, attract attention, then they aren't so lousy.

They do the job nicely....lol

[amd02148]

08:16 PM on 09/15/2011

Fanned/faved Jazz that's what I thought as well. I mean what else would you believe?

[Max Shaw]

02:55 PM on 09/15/2011

Poor headline work once again guys...

[Aitch5]

04:34 PM on 09/15/2011

I know, aren't they just the worst here?

[TheLibraryOfCodex]

02:41 PM on 09/15/2011

***Roman Polanski Repeats History***

He raped another kid?

[jadeaic]

04:09 PM on 09/15/2011

That's exactly what I thought! Boy they sure wrote that horribly,

[LoLo72]

08:27 AM on 09/16/2011

I swear that is what I thought the story was going to be about too.

[proudloudlib]

01:17 PM on 09/15/2011

This takes the cake for misleading headlines.

[gneep]

12:45 PM on 09/15/2011

here we go again.......zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[MsMassachusetts]

10:31 AM on 09/15/2011

Award for what, most infamous rapist living the high life?

[youvebeenflagged]

10:01 AM on 09/15/2011

He gave quaaludes and champaign to a 13 year old, a n a l l y r ap e d her while she pleaded no, admitted the whole thing and then fled the country to avoid prosecution and he is being celebrated? Only in the movie biz - or the republican party

[inapickle]

05:47 PM on 09/15/2011

Yup. I can't watch his movies and it makes me shudder everytime I hear someone talking about how wonderful he is.

[am10]

09:44 AM on 09/15/2011

Boy did I jump to conclusions on that headline. BTW, it's great he can just flaunt his criminal past and privilege in order to beat that rap.

[agness nutter]

09:42 AM on 09/15/2011

HP - you should be ashamed of this type of gutter journalism. I have little regard for Polanski, but that headline borders on calumny.

[enigma2]

10:36 AM on 09/15/2011

The headline leads the reader to believe that Polanski drugged and raped another teenaged girl. Just another got'cha headline.

[gneep]

12:47 PM on 09/15/2011

don't you just love the way the media keeps this story alive for years on end.

[HorseChoker]

09:39 AM on 09/15/2011

rape a kid and then skip town when you're about to get punished for it, but that's okay as long as you've made some pretty good movies... you stay classy movie industry

[redsongia]

10:23 AM on 09/15/2011

Hollywood still reveres him. They all sort of accept rape by famous directors as one of the nuissances of fame, so I'm sure they have a hard time understanding why others can't let it go.

[boscobear]

09:27 AM on 09/15/2011

So they are honoring a child monester. Who next to honor? Perhaps it'll be Hitler because he made the trains run on time?

[NiccoloM]

09:53 AM on 09/15/2011

That was Mussolini's slogan, not Hitler.