After leaving Miramax, Weinstein and his brother Bob founded The Weinstein Company, a mini-major film studio. 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. 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). Harvey Weinstein ( / ˈ w aɪ n s t iː n/ born March 19, 1952) is an American former film producer and convicted sex offender. Rape, criminal sex act, sexual abuse, and sexual misconduct One count of third-degree rape and one count of criminal sexual assault in the first degree
