About a year after the AcademyexpelledRoman Polanski, citing “ethical standards,” the Oscar winner has sued the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and is demanding his reinstatement.

In addition to asking the Academy to reverse its decision, according toVariety, Polanski is demanding the organization pay costs incurred by the suit. The suit alleges that the Academy’s decision to expel Polanski—which was announced at the same time asBill Cosby’sexpulsion—“is not supported by findings, and the Academy’s findings are not supported by evidence.”

The Academy’s Board of Governors voted last May todissolve Polanski and Cosby’s memberships, in accordance with the organization’s new standards of conduct. At the time, the organization said it “continues to encourage ethical standards that require members to uphold the Academy’s values of respect for human dignity.”

Shortly after the decision, Polanski’s lawyer toldVanity Fair that his client would attempt to appeal the decision.

“We want due process,”Harland Braun said at the time. “That’s not asking too much of the Academy, is it?” The suit claims the Academy did not follow proper protocol in dismissing him.

In 1977, Polanski pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor and fled the country after serving 42 days, when it seemed as though he could be sent back to prison. Despite this criminal record, Academy voters celebrated Polanski in 2003, when he won an Oscar for directingThe Pianist. The filmmaker earned a standing ovation at the Academy Awards ceremony, which he did not attend.

Last May, shortly after the Academy announced Polanski’s expulsion,Samantha Geimer—the woman Polanski sexually assaulted when she was 13 years old—toldVanity Fair that the decision was “an ugly and cruel action which serves only appearance.” She added, “It does nothing to change the sexist culture in Hollywood today and simply proves that they will eat their own to survive. I say to Roman, good riddance to bad rubbish, the Academy has no true honor, it’s all just P.R.”

Even before the decision was made, Polanskicalled the #MeToo movement a form of “mass hysteria.”

“I think this is the kind of mass hysteria that occurs in society from time to time,” Polanski said in an interview withNewsweek Polska. “Sometimes it’s very dramatic, like the French Revolution or the St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre in France, or sometimes it’s less bloody, like 1968 in Poland or McCarthyism in the U.S.”

“Everyone is trying to back this movement, mainly out of fear,” he added. “I think it’s total hypocrisy.”

This past September, Polanski’s first film project in the #MeToo era wasannounced: a political thriller with the eyebrow-raising titleJ’Accuse. The project, from French producers Légende Films, will starLouis Garrel as Captain Alfred Dreyfus, the real-life French-Jewish soldier wrongly accused of spying for the Germans in the 1890s.The Artist’s Academy Award–winning actorJean Dujardin will star as the counter-espionage officer who vindicated Dreyfus. Polanski has been developing the film for the past six years, with a script from British novelistRobert Harris.

The subject—a man being wrongly accused and proving his innocence decades later—will certainly make for interesting press conversations whenJ’Accuse is released.