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.
Ronan Farrow Earns Grammy Nomination for ‘Catch and Kill’ Audiobook
variety.comJordan Moreau Ronan Farrow’s “Catch and Kill” audiobook, in which details how he broke the Harvey Weinstein story, earned a Grammy nomination for best spoken word album on Tuesday.Farrow won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for public service for his reporting in The New Yorker.
Fellow nominees in the spoken word album category are “Acid for the Children: A Memoir” by Flea, “Alex Trebek – The Answer Is” by Ken Jennings, “Blowout Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth” by Rachel Maddow and “Charlotte’s Web (E.B.
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