Casey Affleck won't present Best Actress award at Oscars

Casey Affleck.
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Bucking tradition, Casey Affleck won't appear at this year's Academy Awards to present the Best Actress award.

Affleck won the Best Actor Oscar in 2017 for his performance in Manchester by the Sea, and typically, the previous year's Best Actor winner presents the current year's Best Actress award. Controversy has surrounded Affleck since his win last year, though, when it resurfaced that in 2010, he was accused by two women of sexual harassment; he denied the charges, and their cases were settled out of court and dismissed.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.