File photo : Best Director Roman Polanski for his movie 'The Pianist' & his wife Emmanuelle Seigner attend the 28th Cesar's Ceremony at Chatelet Theater in Pari, France, February 22, 2003. Film director Roman Polanski has given up a chance to preside over the Cesar awards - France's equivalent of the Oscars, his lawyer said on Thursday after the decision to hand him the role caused outrage among women's groups, who had called for protests. Their anger is caused by the fact Polanski has been wanted in the US for almost four decades for the rape of a 13-year-old girl in Los Angeles in 1977. Photo by Arnal-Nebinger/ABACAPRESS.COM