Actresses walked out of the Cesars award ceremony in France Friday night after Roman Polanski was announced the winner of top awards, according to CNN.
Polanski's film "An Officer and a Spy" won him best director and best adapted screenplay, which prompted actresses to leave in protest of his win.
CNN reports the 86-year-old director, who was absent from the ceremony, plead guilty to having sex with a 13-year-old girl in the US in 1977, but fled before sentencing. Polanski has been a fugitive in France for the last half of his life.
Actress Adèle Haenel, who has said she was sexually abused as a child by another director, was one of the women who walked out of the ceremony after Polanski's win was announced, according to BBC.
Florence Foresti, the host of the ceremony, posted an Instagram story with a black screen and the word "digusted" after the awards.
Before the ceremony, France's Culture Minister Franck Riester said it would be "symbolically bad" if Polanski were to win the prize for best director, "given the stance we must take against sexual and sexist violence," BBC reported.
According to CNN, protesters also gathered outside of the venue ahead of the awards.
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