Accusations against Polanski pre-date the sexual harassment scandal that embroiled Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein in 2017.
Polanski was expelled from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2018.
The French-Polish director fled the US after pleading guilty in 1977 to having unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl in Los Angeles.
The management of the “French Oscars” resigned en masse on Thursday after weeks of controversy centred on director Roman Polanski, whose latest film An Officer and a Spy leads nominations ahead of the 2020 awards ceremony.