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.
Woody Allen on why he could have never worked with Harvey Weinstein
nme.com"He was a hands-on producer who changed and recut a director’s movie" Woody Allen has shared why he would have never worked with Harvey Weinstein throughout his career.
The Annie Hall director wrote on the past decision in his new memoir Apropos of Nothing, which was released this week after being dropped by publisher Hachette when staff protested following the sexual assault allegations against Allen (which he has denied). “Despite what was printed in the newspapers, Harvey never produced any movies of mine.
Never backed me,” Allen begins. “He only distributed a few already completed films and distributed them well. In addition to Harvey’s skill at distributing, he had an eye for offbeat, artsy movies and presented a number of them.” The
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