Harvey Weinstein is an American former film producer and convicted sex offender. In 1979, Weinstein 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 also won seven Tony Awards for 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 (TWC), a mini-major film studio. He was co-chairman, alongside Bob, from 2005 to 2017.