Harvey Weinstein was born on March 19, 1952 in Flushing, Queens, New York City, New York, USA. He is a film producer, known for _Pulp Fiction and was previously married to Eve Chilton Weinstein.
His is the older brother of Bob Weinstein.
He is the co-founder, with Bob Weinstein , of Miramax Films.
He named his company Miramax after his mother, Miriam, and his father, Max.
He is the son of Miriam Weinstein and Max Weinstein.
At six feet tall, he has weighed over 300 pounds for several years.
He is a member of the Democratic Party and financially supported candidates, including Hillary Clinton.
He had a heart attack in August 2000.
He is an alumnus of the State University of New York at Buffalo.
His father, Max Weinstein, died from a heart attack at age 52.
He started The Weinstein Company with brother Bob Weinstein.
He expressed interest in producing a remake of the movie C.H.U.D. .
He was made a Fellow of the British Film Institute in recognition of his outstanding contribution to film culture. It was removed in October 2017 following accusations of sexual misconduct made against him by many women.
His daughter, India Pearl Weinstein, born 29 August 2010 in New York City, with wife, Georgina Chapman.
He named his favorite films as They Were Expendable , How Green Was My Valley , City Lights , His Girl Friday , Two for the Road and Toute une vie .
He was awarded the French Legion of Honor on March 7, 2012 for his services and contributions to the film industry.
He was awarded the honorary CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2004 Queens Honours List for his services to the film industry.
In 2012, he was listed as one of Time Magazines "100 Most Influential People in the World".
He and wife Georgina Chapman welcomed a baby boy, their second child, Dashiell Max Robert Weinstein, on April 11, 2013.
He has three daughters, Lily Weinstein (born February 20, 1995), Emma Weinstein (born February 2, 1998) and Ruth Weinstein (born October 31, 2002), with first wife Eve Chilton.
A huge supporter of homosexuality, he publicly supported efforts to have pardoned the men who were prosecuted under the sodomy laws that existed in the UK and USA in recent history, which included a petition which was also supported by Benedict Cumberbatch.
As of 2017, he was involved with the production of 20 films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Pulp Fiction , The English Patient , Good Will Hunting , Shakespeare in Love , The Cider House Rules , Chocolat , The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring , Chicago , Gangs of New York , The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers , The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King , Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World , The Aviator , The Reader , Inglourious Basterds , The Fighter , The Kings Speech , Silver Linings Playbook , Django Unchained and Lion . Of those, The English Patient , Shakespeare in Love , Chicago , The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King and The Kings Speech are winners in the category.
The character Harvey in Steven Soderbergh s Hollywood satire Full Frontal is clearly based on Harvey Weinstein , who was also an executive producer on the film. Played by Jeff Garlin , the character is over-weight and drinks a lot of diet coke, just like Weinstein in real-life. Another character in the movie is a film producer, who gets sexually aroused by massages, which might have been an insider reference to Weinstein, too.
He was fired from The Weinstein Company on October 2017 following several allegations of his sexual misconduct that broke out in The New York Times early that same month.
Meryl Streep once called him "God".
The "Joozians" characters from "South Park" were based on Harvey and his brother Bob Weinstein. The characters appear on "Cancelled", season 7, episode 1.
According to Time magazine, Harvey Weinstein s net worth has been estimated to be between $240 million and $300 million dollars. [2017].
On October 14th 2017, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences expelled Harvey Weinstein from its ranks. On that day The Academys 54-member board of governors held an emergency meeting at the organizations Beverly Hills headquarters and voted to strip away Weinsteins lifetime membership. Following the meeting, the Academy issued a statement saying the board had voted "to immediately expel him from the Academy. We do so not simply to separate ourselves from someone who does not merit the respect of his colleagues but also to send a message that the era of willful ignorance and shameful complicity in sexually predatory behavior and workplace harassment in our industry is over.".
On October 18, 2017, Harvard University announced they will rescind Weinsteins W.E.B. Du Bois medal, following a unanimous vote the previous night. "We have voted unanimously to rescind the Du Bois Medal awarded to Mr. Weinstein in 2014. We stand with the women who have courageously come forward to fight for themselves and indeed for all of those who have experienced similar abuse," the group said in a statement to the Harvard Crimson.
On October 16, 2017, the national board of directors of the Producers Guild of America voted unanimously to expel Weinstein. The vote came two days after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences also voted to expel Weinstein.
In October 2017, BAFTA (the British Academy of Film and Television Arts) joined the chorus of disapproval against Weinsteins alleged behavior by suspending his membership.
In October 2017, Tom Hanks told the BBC that Weinsteins name will become "a noun and a verb. It will become an identifying moniker for a state of being for which there was a before and an after".
He stopped the casting of Robert Lindsay in Shakespeare in Love due to a confrontation between the two men over Weinsteins behavior on Strike It Rich . Lindsay described Weinstein as a "monster".
With the revocation of his AMPAS lifetime membership (Oct. 2017), Weinstein became the second only member after Carmine Caridi to be expelled from the academy in its history. Caridi had been expelled in 2004.
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A man can dream is all I can say.
The secret of making movies is having the strongest possible script.
I wanted to do something inspirational for my children.
There are two things that come very easily to me: rooting for New York sports teams and making mistakes.
I learned what I really love is making films, not the film business. I want to be on the set, meeting with writers, I want that freedom. I love it now.
