Harvey Weinstein
Country:
USA
Company:
Entertainment
His paternal grandmother Pauline Fischman (Weinstein) was born in Noua Sulita, Bessarabia. Weinsteins slowly built upon this success throughout the 19805 with arthouse films that achieved critical attention and modest commercial success.
Harvey Weinstein and Miramax gained wider attention in 1988 with the release of Errol Morris' documentary The Thin Blue Line, which detailed the struggle of Randall Dale Adams, a wrongfully convicted inmate sentenced to death row.
The publicity that soon surrounded the case resulted in Adams' release and mationwide publicity for Miramax. In 1989, their successful launch release of Steven Soderbergh's Sex, Lies, and Videotape propelled Miramax to become the most successful independent studio in America.
Miramax won its first Academy Award for Best Picture in 1997 with the victory of The English Patient. This started a string of critical successes that included Good Will Hunting (1997) and Shakespeare in Love (1998), both of which won several awards, including numerous Academy Awards.
The Weinstein brothers left Miramax on September 30, 2005, to form their ow production company, The Weinstein Company, with several other media executives directors Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez, and Colin Vaines, who had sue cessfully run the production department at Miramax for 10 years.