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.
Problems in film industry are much bigger than Harvey Weinstein, director says
breakingnews.ieThe problem of sexual harassment and abuse in the film industry is bigger than “the ‘bad men’ and their bad behaviour,” the director of a new film about a predatory Hollywood executive has said.
Kitty Green’s film The Assistant follows a day in the life of junior assistant to a movie mogul similar to convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein, and Green said the abusive behaviour demonstrated still exists at film production companies and in offices around the world.
Green told the PA news agency: “A lot of the coverage was about the ‘bad men’ and their bad behaviour and this idea that, ‘well if we get rid of these (men, it would all be over).
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