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.
Harvey Weinstein 'doing well' after coronavirus diagnosis
torontosun.comHarvey Weinstein is “doing well” in isolation after being diagnosed with coronavirus.Over the weekend, it was reported the former Miramax boss had contracted COVID-19 while being held at the Wende Correctional Facility near Buffalo, N.Y.A source has since told the New York Post’s gossip column Page Six the producer “is breathing on his own” and has shown no symptoms of the bug after the 68-year-old tested positive for the virus on Saturday.It’s believed Weinstein was infected at Rikers Island prison, where he was briefly locked up before being transferred upstate last Wednesday.
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