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.
Judge Denies Roman Polanski’s Request To Restore Academy Membership
etcanada.comRoman Polanski is the acclaimed director of such Oscar-winning films as “Rosemary’s Baby” and “The Pianist”, but he’s also a fugitive from justice after fleeing the U.S.
in 1978 rather than face a possible prison sentence for charges of sexually assaulting 13-year-old girl. Following the Harvey Weinstein scandal, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences — the organization that hosts the Oscar — expelled Polanski, along with Weinstein and Bill Cosby, for violating the Academy’s standards of conduct.
In May 2018, the 85-year-old director said he was going to sue the Academy in order to be reinstated, and he’s finally lived up to his promise by launching a lawsuit in April 2019.
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