Polanski gets best director at the Berlin Film Festival

Either you love or hate Roman Polanski, there never really is an in-between especially nowadays with all of the public what-not over his arrest last year. Apparently that did not really matter too much as this year’s Berlin Film Festival awarded him with Best Director for his work on The Ghost Writer, reports HitFix.

The feature, released already in limited theaters until it gets a wider release on March 5th, stars Ewan McGregor as The Ghost, sensing something’s not right from the minute he gets the lucrative assignment to complete Adam Lang’s (Pierce Brosnan) autobiography. For starters, the previous ghostwriter, a longtime aide to the ex-Prime Minister, is dead—an apparent suicide victim. As Lang becomes engulfed in a scandal over his administration’s harsh counterterrorism tactics, The Ghost digs into the charismatic politician’s past, discovering clues that he may be hiding something far more shocking than the current allegations against him.

The famed and controversial director could not go to the ceremony to receive the award due to the current house arrest he is handling at the moment. If you want to dive into the gossip aspect of his life, it still remains up in the air as to whether or not he will be extradited to the U.S. to face further charging over the case that’s been going on for decades.