[Captain.Remy]

I watched the ceremony last night because it was going to be messy and French media were talking about it non stop for a week. And indeed it was...bad.
Protesters outside, people were uncomfortable in the audience, the host (a very popular stand-up comedian) made several shady hidden remarks towards Polanski, Adele and several women walking away, the whole board of the film academy quitting a week before the ceremony. A whole mess.

Overall, France being this "popular" and "glamour" film scene in the world, the question of whether to split the man from the artist has been debated so many times over the last years since the #metoo movement. Adele was sexually assaulted when she was younger by a famous film director, a write recently wrote a book about another very famous writer abusing her when she was a teenager etc etc And now Polanski (who didn't attend for obvious reasons) has been rewarded. A lot of cases will be judged in due time.
If you read online comments, people are going insane over this question, whether to seperate the man from his work or not.