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Dude, he won an Oscar in 2003. Best Director. Calling this "decent" career is extremely disingenuous. He worked with Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz, Ewan McGregor and Johnny Depp. All at the top of their careers, very much able to decide who they want to work with and they worked with him. He is still well respected in Poland and France and many different governments protected him from prosecution. When US tried to detain him Polish government ignored the laws to shield him.
With Woody Allen I'm taking about him marrying his step daughter, not the unconfirmed allegations.
Yeah, he won an Oscar, and it was incredibly controversial, and it was one of the things that started the conversation that eventually led to the Me Too movement. For the first time, Hollywood women let their outrage be seen and heard, and that kind of mysogyny in Hollywood began to meet resistance.
Again, I would not say that Polanski has had "no issues" in his career. I don't see Speilberg or Scorcese having to defend 50+ year old scandals literally every time their names are mentioned.
Me Too movement started after Harvey Weinstein scandal, over a decade after Polanski got his Oscar. I don't remember any controversies around The Pianist. The wiki doesn't mention anything. It got great reviews and got a lot of awards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accolades_received_by_The_Pianist
You're either making stuff up now or just misremembering it. Polanski is an admitted rapist. Of course he didn't have same career as Spielberg or Scorsese but he wasn't a pariah either. He worked all his life and was well respected in the industry. I don't know, maybe you just want to believe that Polanski faced some consequences. He didn't. He wasn't punished. There was no justice there. He raped a child and lived a happy life after that.
I know people who are plugged into film studies, academia, etc., and there is definitely a bias against him, and his legacy will be stained. You can point to as many stars as you want, but you will never know how many turned him down.
She wasn't his step-daughter. He wasn't married to Mia Farrow, and she wasn't a biological daughter to Mia, either. Still gross, but technically, y'know?
I'm just saying that many directors would kill to have a career like him and he admitted to rape. Could he achieve more if he didn't rape a child and was allowed entry into US? Maybe but it's really hard to argue he was punished by the industry.
Both him and Woddy simply show that some people can get away with things others can't. Depends on the factors I mentioned.
There is no doubt that his fame and talent bought him a LOT of sanctuary, but it definitely indelibly stained his legacy. We'll never know how much more he could have achieved, but looking back, he would have been better off serving the couple of years in jail, and moved on with his life. He'd still have that old stain, but it would be mostly forgiven as a youthful slip, blame it on drugs, and the times, and it would be overlooked for the most part. But he would have been welcomed back to Hollywood, and would have have had full access to the Hollywood system.