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.
Lea Seydoux claims ‘hypocritical’ #MeToo has ‘scared’ men on movie sets
metro.co.ukActress Lea Seydoux admits to having reservations about #MeToo and believes there is ‘a lot of hypocrisy’ surrounding the movement. The No Time To Die actress feels that some women have ‘taken advantage’ of the highly-publicised campaign against sexual misconduct in the Hollywood movie industry.
It gathered momentum in 2017 when a large number of women came forward to accuse movie producer Harvey Weinstein of inappropriate behaviour.
Weinstein, 67, was found guilty of two counts of sex crimes, including rape in the third degree, last month following a lengthy trial.
Over the past three years, several high-profile actors have been accused of sexual misconduct against women, many of whom are actresses.
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