Results: Love The Art, Hate The Artist

France's equivalent of the Oscars -- the Cesars -- was thrown into turmoil Friday after director Roman Polanski won top awards, prompting walkouts from actresses and protests outside the venue. The 86-year-old Franco-Polish director's film, "An Officer and a Spy," won for best director and best adapted screenplay, a deeply controversial choice for the French film industry in the #MeToo era. Polanski, who was absent from the ceremony, pleaded guilty to having sex with a 13-year-old girl in the US in 1977 but fled before sentencing. He has been a fugitive from justice ever since. His win prompted French actress Adele Haenel, who last year said she had been sexually abused as a child by another director, to walk out, exclaiming: "Shame!" Host of the ceremony, Florence Foresti, later posted an Instagram story with a black screen and the word: "Disgusted." Foresti took several jabs at the film during the ceremony, asking the audience not to applaud when she listed its nomination. As the ceremony unfolded, protesters outside clashed with police as they tried to enter the building. The police used pepper spray on the protesters, who held placards reading: "No Cesar for rapist." Do you feel that in this case, can you appreciate the film, without liking the director responsible for it?

Polanski's film was nominated for 12 awards. It tells the true story of a French army captain, Alfred Dreyfus, a Jew, who was falsely accused -- and convicted -- of treason in 1894. It is considered one of the most infamous wrongful convictions in French history and Dreyfus was eventually exonerated. Do you think that Polanski took on this project in part because he feels he too was "wrongfully convicted" in 1977?

The fact that Polanski still has a career -- and his movie actually did quite well at the box office -- with his infamous past, is not always the norm in an industry that relies on their fans' opinions of them. When a celebrity makes questionable decisions in their personal life (often terrible ones) the public court of opinion can quickly end their careers. Are you familiar with any of these whose careers suffered due to their personal mistakes?

And with the #MeToo movement, many actors, directors and entertainment industry people are seeing their careers screech to a halt with allegations of sexual abuse and assault. Which of these (just a few) are you familiar with?

I remember years ago, my mother loved an actor (do not recall who) that had a well-publicized affair, devastating his wife of several decades. After the affair became public knowledge, my mother refused to watch any of his movies. She, clearly, could not separate the artist from the art -- even though his acting didn't suffer -- his reputation did (at least for my mother). Can you separate the artist from the art?