Harvey Weinstein CBE (born March 19, 1952) is an American former film producer. He and his brother Bob Weinstein co-founded the entertainment company Miramax, which produced several successful independent films, including Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989), The Crying Game (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), Heavenly Creatures (1994), Flirting with Disaster (1996), and Shakespeare in Love (1998).
Weinstein won an Academy Award for producing Shakespeare in Love, and garnered seven Tony Awards for a variety of plays and musicals, including The Producers, Billy Elliot the Musical, and August: Osage County. After leaving Miramax, Weinstein and his brother Bob founded The Weinstein Company, a mini-major film studio. He was co-chairman, alongside Bob, from 2005 to 2017.
How Far Has The Coronavirus Pandemic Set Back The Time's Up Movement?
msn.coma few months after the first allegations of sexual assault against disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein came to light. The allegations catalysed a global mobilisation of women and men who had previously stayed quiet about their experiences of sexual assault and harassment to come forward in their hundreds of thousands, encouraged by the revived #MeToo movement, founded by the activist Tarana Burke.
Over the following two-year period the movement galvanised. To mark the launch of Time's Up, A-listers including Emma Stone, Michelle Williams and Tracee Ellis Ross pledged their allegiance on the 2018 Golden Globes red carpet.
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