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.
Megan Ellison Condemns Scott Rudin as ‘Abusive, Racist and Sexist’ After Exposé
thewrap.comtweet Wednesday for his “abusive, racist and sexist” behavior following an exposé that detailed some of the producer’s alleged treatment of his assistants and staff.Ellison, who worked with Rudin as an executive producer on the 2010 film “True Grit,” said the piece published in THR on Wednesday “barely scratches the surface” of his behavior.
She also compared the hesitation of people to speak out against Rudin to the Harvey Weinstein situation that kicked off the #MeToo movement.“This piece barely scratches the surface of Scott Rudin’s abusive, racist, and sexist behavior.
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