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.
Gwyneth Paltrow says 'rough boss' Harvey Weinstein 'took the shine off acting'
mirror.co.ukGwyneth Paltrow has revealed that working with shamed mogul Harvey Weinstein "took the shine off" acting for her. Calling the former Miramax president a "really rough boss", she explained she was only in her mid-twenties when she realised she didn't "love acting that much as it turns out." At the time Gwyneth, who is among multiple women to accuse Weinstein of sexual harassment, had just won a Best Actress Oscar for her role in Shakespeare In Love. "I sort of felt like, well, now who am I supposed to be?" she said in a new interview on SiriusXM. "What am I driving towards?" Gwyneth said part of the problem was the "intense public scrutiny" of stardom. "Being a kid who's living every breakup on every headline, like being criticised for
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