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For the additional year active the architect of The Weinstein Aggregation steered one of its films to Academy Awards glory, this year with bashful cine "The Artist," afterwards aftermost year's achievement for "The King's Speech."
The Weinstein Aggregation was additionally abaft "The Iron Lady" - which won best extra Oscar for Streep as above British arch Margaret Thatcher - as able-bodied as "My Week with Marilyn" about awning idol Marilyn Monroe.
The aggregation additionally broadcast "Undefeated," a documentary about an underdog football aggregation who attending to about-face their fortunes with with a new coach, which won best documentary affection Sunday.
"Harvey Weinstein did absurd work. The way he thinks about a film, about the audience, about the way to appearance it in its best light, with the appropriate timing, he's actual strong," said "The Artist" administrator Michel Hazanavicius.
Weinstein, now 59, is absolutely a fable in Tinseltown. Before the Weinstein Company, with his earlier brother Bob he co-founded Miramax Films - called afterwards his mother Miriam and ancestor Max - in 1979.
Miramax was awash to Disney in 1993 and the Weinstein brothers larboard the aggregation in 2005 to alpha their own cine studio. Miramax hits accommodate 1998's "Shakespeare in Love," for which Weinstein aggregate a Best Picture Oscar.
But over his three-decade career he has produced no beneath than 243 projects, including Cannes-winning "Pulp Fiction" (1994), "Pret a Porter" in 1994, "The English Patient" (1996), and "Gangs of New York" in 2002.
The able-bodied cine mogul - he weighs over 300 pounds - was additionally controlling ambassador on the all-around blockbuster "Lord of the Rings" aeon of films starting in 2001, as able-bodied as "The Reader" (2008) and "Inglorious Basterds" (2009)
He is acclaimed for his adeptness to arrange Oscars campaigns.
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