# Harvey Weinstein

Harvey Weinstein (/ˈwaɪnstiːn/; born March 19, 1952) is an American 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.
In October 2017, following sexual abuse allegations dating back to the late 1970s, Weinstein was dismissed from his company and expelled from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. More than 80 women made allegations of sexual harassment or rape against him by October 31. The allegations sparked the #MeToo social media campaign and subsequent sexual abuse allegations against many powerful men worldwide; this phenomenon is referred to as the "Weinstein effect".
In May 2018, Weinstein was arrested and charged with rape in New York; in February 2020, he was found guilty of two of five felony counts. Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison, and began serving his sentence at Wende Correctional Facility. On July 20, 2021, Weinstein was extradited to Los Angeles to face further charges at a subsequent trial, where he was found guilty of three of seven charges on December 19, 2022. Weinstein was sentenced to 16 years in the Los Angeles trial, with his California prison term required to be served separately from his New York sentence. In April 2023, he was extradited from California to New York, returning to Mohawk Correctional Facility.
On April 25, 2024, the New York Court of Appeals overturned the New York rape convictions because of "egregious errors" of procedure, ordering a retrial. Weinstein remains in prison because of the California conviction. After the 2024 New York Court of Appeals decision, Weinstein was transferred back to New York's Rikers Island jail, with plans being made for a retrial to take place in New York in September 2024. On July 19, 2024, it was ruled that Weinstein would be retried for the New York sex abuse charges, with a retrial start date tentatively set for November 12, 2024. On October 23, 2024, trial was further postponed; the judge set a pretrial hearing for January 29, 2025. The State Judge Curtis Farber announced on January 29, 2025, that the accused will face retrial in New York on rape charges on April 15, 2025. Weinstein's retrial will include a new allegation involving a woman who was not in the original case. The woman alleges he forced oral sex on her at a Manhattan hotel in 2006.

## Early life

Weinstein was born in the Flushing neighborhood of Queens, New York City, to diamond cutter Max Weinstein (died 1976) and his wife, Miriam (née Postel; died 2016). His family is Jewish, and his maternal grandparents immigrated to the United States from Poland. Weinstein grew up with his younger brother, Bob, in a housing co-op named Electchester in New York City. Weinstein graduated from John Bowne High School and attended the State University of New York at Buffalo. Weinstein, his brother Bob, and Corky Burger independently produced rock concerts as Harvey & Corky Productions in Buffalo through most of the 1970s. Harvey & Corky Productions brought top acts to Buffalo, including Frank Sinatra, The Who, Jackson Browne, and the Rolling Stones. Weinstein's longtime friend, Jonathan A. Dandes, followed him to Buffalo and has described Weinstein as "aggressive" and "consumed" in matters of business. Weinstein attended the University at Buffalo from 1969 to 1973 but ultimately did not graduate, choosing to concentrate on his business interests instead.

## Career
### 1970s: Early work and creation of Miramax

In the late 1970s, using profits from their concert promotion business, Weinstein and his brother founded the independent film distribution company Miramax Films, named after their parents Miriam and Max. The company's initial releases were primarily music-oriented concert films such as Paul McCartney's Rockshow.

### 1980s: Success with arthouse and independent films

In the early 1980s, Miramax Films acquired the rights to two British films of benefit shows filmed for the human rights organization Amnesty International. Working closely with Martin Lewis, the producer of the original films, the Weinstein brothers edited the two films into one movie tailored for the American market. The resulting film was released as The Secret Policeman's Other Ball in May 1982, and it became Miramax Films' first hit. The movie raised considerable sums of money for Amnesty International and was credited by Amnesty with having helped to raise its profile in the United States. The Weinsteins slowly built upon this success throughout the 1980s with arthouse films which achieved critical attention and modest commercial success.
Weinstein and Miramax Films 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 nationwide publicity for Miramax Films. In 1989, their successful launch release of Steven Soderbergh's Sex, Lies, and Videotape propelled Miramax Films to become the most successful independent studio in America.
In 1989, Miramax Films also released two arthouse films, Peter Greenaway's The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover and director Pedro Almodóvar's film Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, both of which received an X-rating from the MPAA rating board, effectively stopping nationwide release for these films. Weinstein sued the MPAA over the rating system. His lawsuit was later thrown out, but the MPAA introduced the NC-17 rating two months later.

### 1990s–2004: Further success, Disney ownership deal

Miramax Films continued to grow its library of films and directors until, in 1993, after the success of The Crying Game, Disney offered the Weinsteins $80 million for ownership of Miramax Films. The brothers agreed to the deal which in turn cemented their Hollywood clout and also ensured that they would remain at the head of their company. The following year, Miramax Films released its first blockbuster, Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, and distributed the popular independent film Clerks.
Miramax Films won its first Academy Award for Best Picture in 1997 with the victory of The English Patient. Pulp Fiction was nominated in 1995 but lost to Forrest Gump. This started a string of critical successes that included Good Will Hunting (1997) and Shakespeare in Love (1998), with both films receiving several awards, including numerous Academy Awards.

### 2005–2017: The Weinstein Company

On September 30, 2005, the Weinstein brothers left Miramax Films to form their own production company, The Weinstein Company (TWC), with several other media executives, directors Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez, and Colin Vaines, who had successfully run the production department at Miramax Films for 10 years. In February 2011, filmmaker Michael Moore took legal action against the Weinstein brothers, claiming they owed him $2.7 million in profits for his documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004), which he said were denied to him by "Hollywood accounting tricks." In February 2012, Moore dropped the lawsuit for an undisclosed settlement.
Weinstein was thanked or praised in 34 Academy Award acceptance speeches — as many times as God, and second only to Steven Spielberg (with 43 mentions), as found by an analysis of speeches made between 1966 and 2016.
On October 8, 2017, Harvey Weinstein was fired from TWC after a list of sexual abuse charges was released to the press. After months of unsuccessful attempts to sell the company or its library, TWC filed for bankruptcy, with Lantern Entertainment subsequently purchasing all assets in 2018. The company was shut down on July 16, 2018, and its website sometime thereafter.
While lauded for opening up the independent film market and making it financially viable, Weinstein has been criticized for the techniques he applied in his business dealings. Peter Biskind's book Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance and the Rise of Independent Film denounced Miramax's release history and editing of arthouse films. For example, the book states that 54 had been originally made as an arthouse film but, after Ryan Phillippe's sudden rise to stardom, Weinstein forced director Mark Christopher to re-edit and re-shoot the film to make it more mainstream.
Weinstein re-edited several Asian films and dubbed them in English. Weinstein tried to release the English-dubbed versions of Shaolin Soccer and Hero in the United States theatrically, but they scored badly in test screenings, leading Weinstein to release the films in United States cinemas in their original language. Furthermore, Weinstein re-edited 1993 Cannes Palme d'Or winner Farewell My Concubine for U.S. theatrical release; 1993 Cannes jury head Louis Malle was furious. "The film we admired so much in Cannes is not the film seen in this country, which is twenty minutes shorter — but it seems longer, because it doesn't make any sense," complained Malle.
When Weinstein was charged with handling the U.S. release of Princess Mononoke, director Hayao Miyazaki was reported to have sent him a samurai sword in the mail. Attached to the blade was a stark message: "No cuts." Miyazaki commented on the incident: "Actually, my producer did that. Although I did go to New York to meet this man, this Harvey Weinstein, and I was bombarded with this aggressive attack, all these demands for cuts. I defeated him." Weinstein and his brother Bob have also been criticized for altering the vision of foreign filmmakers hired to create movies for Miramax, such as on the 1997 projects Mimic (directed by Guillermo del Toro) and Nightwatch (directed by Dane Ole Bornedal). Weinstein has always insisted that such changes were done in the interest of creating the most financially viable film. "I'm not cutting for fun," he said in an interview. "I'm cutting for the shit to work. All my life I served one master: the film. I love movies."
Another example cited by Biskind was Phillip Noyce's The Quiet American (2002), the release of which Weinstein delayed following the September 11 attacks owing to audience reaction in test screenings to the film's critical tone toward past U.S. foreign policy. After being told the film would go straight to video, Noyce planned to screen the film at the Toronto International Film Festival in order to mobilize critics to pressure Miramax to release it theatrically. Weinstein decided to screen the film at the festival only after he was lobbied by star Michael Caine, who threatened to boycott publicity for another film he had made for Miramax. The Quiet American received mostly positive reviews at the festival, and Miramax eventually released the film theatrically. However, it was alleged that Miramax did not make a major effort to promote the film for Academy Award consideration, though Caine was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor.
Weinstein acquired a reputation for ruthlessness and fits of anger. According to Biskind, Weinstein once put a New York Observer reporter in a headlock while throwing him out of a party. On another occasion, Weinstein yelled at director Julie Taymor and her husband during a disagreement over a test screening of her movie Frida, saying to Taymor, "You are the most arrogant person I have ever met!" and to her husband, film composer Elliot Goldenthal, "I don't like the look on your face. Why don't you defend your wife, so I can beat the shit out of you?"
In a 2004 New York magazine article, Weinstein appeared somewhat repentant for his often aggressive discussions with directors and producers. However, a Newsweek story on October 13, 2008, criticized Weinstein, who was accused of "hassling Sydney Pollack on his deathbed" about the release of the film The Reader. After Weinstein offered $1 million to charity if the accusation could be proven, journalist Nikki Finke published an email sent by Scott Rudin on August 22 asserting that Weinstein "harassed" Anthony Minghella's widow and a bedridden Pollack until Pollack's family asked him to stop.
In September 2009, Weinstein publicly voiced opposition to efforts to extradite Roman Polanski from Switzerland to the U.S. regarding a 1977 charge that he had drugged and raped a 13-year-old girl, to which Polanski pleaded guilty before fleeing the country. Weinstein, whose company distributed Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, a film about the Polanski case, questioned whether Polanski committed any crime, prompting Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley to insist that Polanski's guilty plea indicated that his action was a crime, and that several other serious charges were pending.

## Sexual abuse accusations, convictions and appeals

In October 2017, The New York Times and The New Yorker reported that more than a dozen women accused Weinstein of sexually harassing, assaulting, or raping them. Many other women in the film industry subsequently reported similar experiences with Weinstein, who denied "any nonconsensual sex." As a result of these allegations, Weinstein was dismissed from his production company, suspended from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and expelled from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Weinstein also resigned from the Directors Guild of America and was denounced by leading figures in politics whom he had supported. The Los Angeles Police Department opened a criminal investigation for alleged rape, and New York and London police began investigating other sexual assault allegations. On October 10, 2017, Weinstein's wife, Georgina Chapman, announced that she was leaving him; their divorce was finalized in July 2021.
The sexual abuse allegations precipitated a wave of "national reckoning" against sexual harassment and assault in the United States known as the Weinstein effect. Compounded by other sexual harassment cases earlier in the year, the Weinstein reports and subsequent #MeToo hashtag campaign, which encouraged individuals to share their suppressed stories of sexual misconduct, created a cavalcade of allegations across multiple industries that brought about the swift ouster of many men in positions of power both in the United States and, as it spread, around the world.
Ronan Farrow reported in The New Yorker in November 2017 that Weinstein had hired British-Israeli private intelligence firm Black Cube in order to stop the publication of the abuse allegations against him. Using false identities, private investigators from Black Cube reportedly tracked and met journalists and actresses, in particular Rose McGowan, who accused Weinstein of rape. Weinstein reportedly had Black Cube, Kroll and other agencies "target, or collect information on, dozens of individuals, and compile psychological profiles that sometimes focused on their personal or sexual histories."
Weinstein reportedly sought help from Farrow's father Woody Allen to help stop Farrow from reporting on the claims of sexual abuse against Weinstein. Allen declined to help. Weinstein also reportedly used Black Cube to attempt to silence journalists Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor reporting on the allegations against him. According to Kantor, a Black Cube agent posing as a women's rights advocate attempted to manipulate and dupe her. Weinstein approached Hillary Clinton in an attempt to help him stop Farrow from publishing the sexual misconduct allegations against him. Clinton publicist Nick Merrill emailed Farrow and unsuccessfully attempted to convince him to not publish the story. According to Rose McGowan, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, California Governor Gavin Newsom's wife, aided Weinstein lawyer David Boies in attempting to bribe McGowan and keep her silent about her allegations against Weinstein.
In 2019, the documentary Untouchable was released with interviews from several of his accusers.
The New York County District Attorney's Office charged Weinstein with "rape, criminal sex act, sex abuse and sexual misconduct for incidents involving two separate women" on May 25, 2018. He was arrested the same day after surrendering to the New York City Police Department (NYPD) and released after US$1 million bail was posted on his behalf. He surrendered his passport and was required to wear an ankle monitor, with travel being restricted to New York and Connecticut. His lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, said Weinstein would plead not guilty. A trial date was set for January 6, 2020. On that date, Weinstein was also charged in Los Angeles with raping one woman and sexually assaulting another in 2013.
After deliberating for five days, a jury convicted Weinstein on February 24, 2020, of two of five criminal charges: one count of criminal sexual assault in the first degree and one count of rape in the third degree. The jury found him not guilty regarding predatory sexual assault, which could have led to a life sentence. Weinstein was remanded to jail at Rikers Island in New York City pending his sentencing hearing on March 11, when he was sentenced to 23 years in prison. Weinstein was then transferred to Wende Correctional Facility in Erie County, New York. Through his attorneys, Weinstein stated that he would appeal the verdict. Weinstein was stripped of his honorary CBE (Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) on September 18, 2020. Once incarcerated, Weinstein hired prison consultant Craig Rothfeld. By June 2021, Weinstein had been transferred to the Mohawk Correctional Facility in Rome, New York.
On June 2, 2022, the New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department upheld the verdicts and judgment on appeal. For the court's decision, Judge Angela Mazzarelli wrote, "We perceive no basis for reducing the sentence, and we have considered defendant's remaining arguments and find them unavailing." On August 25, 2022, Weinstein was granted a further appeal before the New York Court of Appeals.

### California conviction

On July 20, 2021, Weinstein was flown to Los Angeles and taken to the Twin Towers Correctional Facility. The trial in Los Angeles commenced in October 2022. Weinstein was charged with 11 counts of rape, forcible oral copulation and sexual battery, stemming from alleged acts between 2004 and 2013. He was found guilty of three of seven charges (four of the initial 11 charges were dropped) on December 19, 2022. Convictions included charges of rape, forced oral copulation and third-degree sexual misconduct. On February 23, 2023, Weinstein was sentenced to 16 years in prison for these convictions. His sentence in California prisons must be served separately from (i.e., consecutively to rather than concurrently to) his time served in New York. Weinstein is appealing the Los Angeles conviction. On April 11, 2023, Weinstein was extradited from California and back to upstate New York's the Mohawk Correctional Facility. After the New York convictions were overturned in April 2024, and plans were made to retry him in New York City, Weinstein was transferred back to Riker's Island prison.
On June 8, 2022, Weinstein was formally charged by the Metropolitan Police with two counts of indecent assault against a woman in London between July 31 and August 31, 1996.
On July 9, 2024, New York prosecutors announced an investigation was underway for additional claims against Weinstein for sexual assault, including for claims that fall within the state's statute of limitations, though no indictment was immediately sent to the grand jury.

### New York conviction overturned

On April 25, 2024, the New York Court of Appeals overturned the New York rape convictions and said that the trial judge had made "egregious errors" with the attorney stating Weinstein had been "tried on his character, not the evidence." The Court of Appeals ordered a retrial.
After the New York appeal ruling, a number of actresses who had made allegations against Weinstein responded:
Ashley Judd, who was among the first to disclose her rape, told the New York Times: "That is unfair to survivors. We still live in our truth. And we know what happened." Later at a press conference, Judd added: "This is what it's like to be a woman in America, living with male entitlement to our bodies."
Rosanna Arquette, who disclosed that Weinstein assaulted her, said in a statement to the Hollywood Reporter: "Harvey was rightfully convicted. It's unfortunate that the court has overturned his conviction. As a survivor, I am beyond disappointed."
Rose McGowan, who also shared her story of assault from Weinstein, said in a video statement: "No matter what they overturn, they cannot take away who we are and what we know, what we've gone through and what we can achieve in this life. We are not victims. We are people that were injured by evil."
Retrial
Despite the successful appeal, Weinstein remains set to face a retrial for the overturned New York convictions in the fall of 2024. During a court hearing on July 19, 2024, Judge Curtis Farber ruled that Weinstein would be retried and tentatively set for the retrial to start on November 12, 2024. Despite this, Farber also ruled that previous plans to have the retrial start in September 2024 were still an option, and the start date of the retrial would depend on pretrial discoveries. Weinstein's lawyers have called for the retrial to begin as soon as possible. On January 29, 2025, Judge Farber set the retrial to date to April 15, 2025.
Additional charges in New York
On September 12, 2024, a New York grand jury indicted Weinstein on new charges, as announced by prosecutors from the Manhattan District Attorney's office. The specific charges remain unknown, as the indictment is sealed and will be revealed during Weinstein's arraignment. On September 18, 2024, Weinstein was arraigned in New York for this new indictment, entering a plea of not guilty to one count of criminal sexual act in the first degree. The prosecution filed a motion to consolidate the new charges into Weinstein's retrial rather than have two separate New York trials. The presiding judge granted the prosecution's motion to consolidate on October 23.

## Personal life

Weinstein was married twice. In 1987, he married his assistant Eve Chilton; the couple divorced in 2004. They had three daughters. In 2007, Weinstein married English fashion designer and actress Georgina Chapman. They have a daughter and a son. On October 10, 2017, after the sexual harassment accusations became public, Chapman announced that she was leaving Weinstein. They reached a settlement in January 2018, and their divorce was finalized in July 2021.

### Activism

Weinstein was active on issues such as gun control, poverty, AIDS, juvenile diabetes, and multiple sclerosis research. Until October 2017, he served on the board of the Robin Hood Foundation, a New York City-based non-profit that targets poverty, and co-chaired one of its annual benefits. Weinstein was critical of the lack of universal healthcare in the United States.
Weinstein has been a longtime supporter of and contributor to the Democratic Party, including the campaigns of President Barack Obama and presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and John Kerry. Weinstein supported Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign. In 2012, he hosted an election fundraiser for Obama at his home in Westport, Connecticut.

### Fashion

Weinstein was active in the fashion industry. He produced the fashion reality show Project Runway, making stars of designer Michael Kors, model Heidi Klum and editor Nina Garcia. Weinstein was instrumental in the revival of Halston, collaborating with Tamara Mellon, Sarah Jessica Parker, and stylist Rachel Zoe. He licensed the option to revive the Charles James brand. Celebrities were asked to wear Marchesa (the label of his then-partner and later then-wife, Georgina Chapman) at least once if they were cast in a Weinstein movie. Weinstein's production companies were frequently involved in fashion-themed movies, including Madonna's W.E., Robert Altman's Prêt-à-Porter, and Tom Ford's A Single Man. Stars of Weinstein's films appeared on more than a dozen Vogue covers.

### Health

* Harvey Weinstein hospitalized in Manhattan after "alarming" blood test results
In 1999, Weinstein underwent surgery for Fournier gangrene.
In July 2024, Weinstein was admitted to the prison ward of Bellevue Hospital with what his lawyers said were COVID-19 and double pneumonia. On September 9, 2024, he underwent emergency heart surgery at Bellevue and was said to be in critical condition for a time afterward. In October 2024, it was reported that he had been diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia. On December 2, 2024, it was reported that Weinstein was hospitalized in Manhattan due to blood test results that were described as "alarming".

## Selected filmography
### Producer

| Year | Film | Notes |
| 1981 | The Burning | also writer (story) |
| 1982 | The Secret Policeman's Other Ball | |
| 1985 | Deep End | Documentary |
| 1986 | Playing for Keeps | also writer |
| 1988 | Light Years a.k.a. Gandahar (English Version) | |
| 1995 | Restoration | co-producer |
| 1998 | Shakespeare in Love | Academy Award for Best Picture BAFTA Award for Best Film Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Satellite Award for Best Film – Musical or Comedy Nominated – Producers Guild of America Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture |
| 2000 | Malèna | Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language |
| 2002 | Gangs of New York | Nominated – Academy Award for Best Picture Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Film Nominated – Producers Guild of America Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture |
| 2003 | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | co-producer (uncredited) |
| 2009 | Nine | Satellite Award for Best Film – Musical or Comedy Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy |
| 2011 | My Week with Marilyn | Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best British Film Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy |
| 2017 | Tulip Fever | |
| 2017 | The Current War | Uncredited Film generally released in 2019. |

### Director

| Year | Film | Notes |
| 1986 | Playing for Keeps | also writer and producer, co-directed with Bob Weinstein |
| 1987 | The Gnomes' Great Adventure | 1988 English dub |

### Executive producer

| Year | Film | Notes |
| 1989 | Scandal | co-executive producer |
| 1989 | The Lemon Sisters | co-executive producer |
| 1990 | Hardware | |
| 1990 | Strike It Rich | |
| 1990 | Crossing the Line | co-executive producer |
| 1991 | Madonna: Truth or Dare | |
| 1991 | A Rage in Harlem | |
| 1991 | The Pope Must Diet | |
| 1992 | Reservoir Dogs | |
| 1992 | Dust Devil | co-executive producer |
| 1992 | Into the West | co-executive producer |
| 1993 | Benefit of the Doubt | |
| 1993 | The Night We Never Met | |
| 1993 | True Romance | |
| 1993 | The Hour of the Pig | |
| 1993 | Map of the Human Heart | |
| 1994 | Mother's Boys | |
| 1994 | Pulp Fiction | co-executive producer |
| 1994 | Il Postino: The Postman | |
| 1994 | Prêt-à-Porter | |
| 1995 | Smoke | |
| 1995 | The Englishman Who Went up a Hill but Came down a Mountain | |
| 1995 | The Thief and the Cobbler/Arabian Knight | |
| 1995 | Blue in the Face | |
| 1995 | Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead | |
| 1995 | A Month by the Lake | |
| 1995 | The Journey of August King | |
| 1995 | The Crossing Guard | |
| 1996 | Beautiful Girls | |
| 1996 | The English Patient | |
| 1996 | Flirting with Disaster | |
| 1996 | The Pallbearer | |
| 1996 | Scream | |
| 1996 | Jane Eyre | |
| 1996 | The Crow: City of Angels | |
| 1996 | Emma | |
| 1996 | The Last of the High Kings | |
| 1996 | Victory | co-executive producer |
| 1997 | Addicted to Love | |
| 1997 | Nightwatch | |
| 1997 | Mimic | |
| 1997 | She's So Lovely | |
| 1997 | Jackie Brown | |
| 1997 | Good Will Hunting | |
| 1997 | Cop Land | |
| 1997 | The Wings of the Dove | |
| 1997 | Princess Mononoke | 2000 English dub |
| 1997 | Scream 2 | |
| 1997 | Air Bud | |
| 1998 | A Price Above Rubies | |
| 1998 | Phantoms | |
| 1998 | Senseless | |
| 1998 | Wide Awake | |
| 1998 | Ride | |
| 1998 | Since You've Been Gone | TV film |
| 1998 | The Mighty | |
| 1998 | Velvet Goldmine | |
| 1998 | Halloween H20: 20 Years Later | |
| 1998 | 54 | |
| 1998 | Rounders | |
| 1998 | Little Voice | co-executive producer |
| 1998 | Talk of Angels | |
| 1998 | B. Monkey | co-executive producer |
| 1998 | The Faculty | |
| 1998 | Playing by Heart | |
| 1999 | Guinevere | |
| 1999 | She's All That | |
| 1999 | My Life So Far | |
| 1999 | Teaching Mrs. Tingle | |
| 1999 | Outside Providence | |
| 1999 | In Too Deep | |
| 1999 | Mansfield Park | |
| 1999 | Holy Smoke! | |
| 1999 | Music of the Heart | |
| 1999 | The Cider House Rules | |
| 2000 | The Crow: Salvation | |
| 2000 | Down to You | |
| 2000 | Scream 3 | |
| 2000 | Love's Labour's Lost | |
| 2000 | Committed | |
| 2000 | Scary Movie | |
| 2000 | Chocolat | |
| 2000 | The Yards | |
| 2000 | Bounce | |
| 2000 | Dracula 2000 | |
| 2001 | The Others | |
| 2001 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | |
| 2001 | Iris | |
| 2001 | The Shipping News | |
| 2001 | Spy Kids | |
| 2001 | Texas Rangers | |
| 2001 | Scary Movie 2 | |
| 2001 | Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back | |
| 2001–2005 | Project Greenlight | Nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality Program (2002, 2004, 2005) |
| 2002 | Chicago | |
| 2002 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | |
| 2002 | Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams | |
| 2002 | Below | |
| 2002 | Waking Up in Reno | |
| 2002 | Equilibrium | |
| 2002 | Confessions of a Dangerous Mind | |
| 2003 | Cold Mountain | |
| 2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | |
| 2003 | Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over | |
| 2003 | My Boss's Daughter | |
| 2003 | Duplex | |
| 2003 | Scary Movie 3 | |
| 2003 | Bad Santa | co-executive producer |
| 2003 | The Human Stain | |
| 2003 | Kill Bill: Volume 1 | |
| 2004 | Jersey Girl | |
| 2004 | Ella Enchanted | |
| 2004 | Fahrenheit 9/11 | |
| 2004 | The Aviator | |
| 2004 | Finding Neverland | |
| 2004 | Shall We Dance? | |
| 2004 | Kill Bill: Volume 2 | |
| 2004–2017 | Project Runway | Nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program (2005–2015) |
| 2005 | Sin City | |
| 2005 | Cursed | |
| 2005 | The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl | |
| 2005 | The Brothers Grimm | |
| 2005 | Underclassman | |
| 2005 | Proof | |
| 2005 | Derailed | |
| 2006 | Clerks II | |
| 2006 | Doogal | |
| 2006 | Scary Movie 4 | |
| 2006 | Pulse | |
| 2006 | Breaking and Entering | |
| 2006 | Miss Potter | |
| 2006 | School for Scoundrels | |
| 2007 | Grindhouse | |
| 2007 | The Mist | |
| 2007 | Rogue | |
| 2007 | Sicko | |
| 2007 | Halloween | |
| 2007 | Awake | |
| 2007 | 1408 | |
| 2007 | Who's Your Caddy? | |
| 2007 | The Nanny Diaries | |
| 2008 | Superhero Movie | |
| 2008 | Rambo | |
| 2008 | The Reader | |
| 2008 | Zack and Miri Make a Porno | |
| 2008 | Soul Men | |
| 2009 | Inglourious Basterds | |
| 2009 | Fanboys | |
| 2009 | Halloween II | |
| 2009 | Capitalism: A Love Story | |
| 2010 | Piranha 3D | |
| 2010 | The King's Speech | |
| 2010 | The Fighter | |
| 2011 | The Artist | |
| 2011 | Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil | |
| 2011 | Scream 4 | |
| 2011 | Spy Kids: All the Time in the World | |
| 2011 | Apollo 18 | |
| 2011 | Butter | |
| 2011 | I Don't Know How She Does It | |
| 2012 | W.E. | |
| 2012 | Piranha 3DD | |
| 2012 | Silver Linings Playbook | |
| 2012 | Django Unchained | |
| 2013 | Escape from Planet Earth | |
| 2013 | Scary Movie 5 | |
| 2013 | Lee Daniels' The Butler | |
| 2013 | August: Osage County | |
| 2013 | One Chance | |
| 2013 | Fruitvale Station | |
| 2013 | Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom | |
| 2014 | Vampire Academy | |
| 2014 | Sin City: A Dame to Kill For | |
| 2014 | Big Eyes | |
| 2014 | Marco Polo | |
| 2015 | Woman in Gold | |
| 2015 | Southpaw | |
| 2015 | Carol | |
| 2015 | Macbeth | |
| 2015 | Burnt | |
| 2015 | The Hateful Eight | |
| 2016 | Sing Street | |
| 2016 | War & Peace | |
| 2016 | Lion | |
| 2016 | The Founder | |
| 2016 | Gold | |
| 2017 | Wind River | |
| 2017 | Leap! | |
| 2017 | 47 Meters Down | |
| 2017 | Amityville: The Awakening | |
| 2017 | The Upside | |

## Awards and honors

Weinstein has won numerous awards. On September 26, 2000, he was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters (DHL) by the University at Buffalo. On April 19, 2004, Weinstein was appointed an honorary commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in recognition of his contributions to the British film industry. This award was honorary because Weinstein is not a citizen of a Commonwealth country. On March 2, 2012, Weinstein was made a knight of the French Legion of Honour, in recognition of Miramax's efforts to increase the presence and popularity of foreign films in the United States.
The University at Buffalo revoked Weinstein's honorary doctorate, saying his conduct "contradicts the spirit of the honorary degree", while French President Emmanuel Macron revoked his Legion of Honour, both in late 2017. On September 18, 2020, Weinstein was stripped of his honorary CBE, following his conviction for rape and sexual assault earlier that year.
The table below lists additional awards nominated to or won by Weinstein. Those not shared with others have also since been rescinded. Wins are highlighted in pink.
| Year | Association | Award | Notes | Rescinded |
| 1996 | Britannia Awards | Britannia Award for Excellence in Film | shared with Bob Weinstein | |
| 1997 | Gotham Awards | Producers Award | shared with Bob Weinstein and James Schamus | |
| 1998 | GLAAD Media Award | GLAAD Excellence in Media Award | shared with Bob Weinstein | |
| 1998 | British Academy Film Awards | BAFTA Award for Best Film | shared with David Parfitt, Donna Gigliotti, Edward Zwick and Marc Norman | |
| 1999 | Producers Guild of America Awards | Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures | shared with David Parfitt, Donna Gigliotti, Edward Zwick and Marc Norman | |
| 1999 | Satellite Awards | Satellite Award for Best Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical | shared with David Parfitt, Donna Gigliotti, Edward Zwick and Marc Norman | |
| 1999 | Academy Award | Academy Award for Best Picture | shared with David Parfitt, Donna Gigliotti, Edward Zwick and Marc Norman | |
| 2001 | British Independent Film Awards | Special Jury Prize | shared with Bob Weinstein | |
| 2001 | British Academy Film Awards | BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language | shared with Carlo Bernasconi and Giuseppe Tornatore | |
| 2002 | British Film Institute | British Film Institute Fellowship | | 2017 |
| 2002 | Hugo Award | Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation | shared with Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Phillipa Boyens, J.R.R. Tolkien, Barrie M. Osborne, Tim Sanders, Bob Weinstein | |
| 2002 | Christopher Award | Christopher Award for best film | shared with Richard Eyre, Charles Wood, Robert Fox, Scott Rudin, Anthony Minghella, Sydney Pollack, Guy East, David M Thompson and Thomas Hedley Jr | |
| 2002 | Primetime Emmy Awards | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program | shared with Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Chris Moore, Sean Bailey, Bob Weinstein, Billy Campbell, Elizabeth Bronstein, Eli Holzman, Tina Gazzerro and Tony Yates | |
| 2003 | British Academy Film Awards | BAFTA Award for Best Film | shared with Alberto Grimaldi | |
| 2003 | Producers Guild of America Awards | Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures | shared with Alberto Grimaldi | |
| 2003 | Saturn Award | Special Award | shared with Bob Weinstein | |
| 2003 | Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films | Special Award | shared with Bob Weinstein | |
| 2003 | DVD Exclusive Awards | Producer Award | shared with Bob Weinstein | |
| 2003 | Academy Award | Academy Award for Best Picture | shared with Alberto Grimaldi | |
| 2004 | Primetime Emmy Awards | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality Program | shared with Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Chris Moore, Sean Bailey, Bob Weinstein, Bob Osher, Dan Cutforth, Jane Lipsitz, Tony Yates, Randy Sacks and Eli Holzman | |
| 2005 | Primetime Emmy Awards | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program | shared with Bob Weinstein, Dan Cutforth, Jane Lipsitz, Jane Cha Cutler, Desiree Gruber, Heidi Klum, Shari Levine, Frances Berwick, Rich Bye, Rich Buhrman, Gaylen Gawlowski, Sebastian Doggart, Alexandra Lipsitz, Jennifer Berman, Barbara Schneeweiss, Eli Holzman | |
| 2005 | Primetime Emmy Awards | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality Program | shared with Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Chris Moore, Sean Bailey, Bob Weinstein, Bob Osher, Dan Cutforth, Jane Lipsitz, Andy Cohen, Frances Berwick, Dave Serwatka, Rich Buhrman, Gaylen Gawlowski, Kevin Morra, Casey Kriley, Jennifer Berman, Eli Holzman, Marc Joubert, Barbara Schneeweiss, Larry Tanz and Alexandra Lipsitz | |
| 2006 | Primetime Emmy Awards | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program | shared with Bob Weinstein, Dan Cutforth, Jane Lipsitz, Heidi Klum, Jane Cha Cutler, Desiree Gruber, Rich Bye, Shari Levine, Andy Cohen, Frances Berwick, Rich Buhrman, Gaylen Gawlowski, Alexandra Lipsitz, Barbara Schneeweiss, Jennifer Berman, Noel Guerra, Steve Lichtenstein, Michael Rucker, Benjamin Mack and Andrew Wallace | |
| 2006 | News and Documentary Emmy Awards | Outstanding Historical Programming - Long Form | shared with Donny Epstein, Yeeshai Gross, Matthew Hiltzik, Robert M. Johnson, Ellie Landau, Jeff Tahler, Bob Weinstein, Joe Fab, Ari Daniel Pinchcot, Elliot Berlin | |
| 2007 | Primetime Emmy Awards | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program | shared with Bob Weinstein, Dan Cutforth, Jane Lipsitz, Heidi Klum, Jane Cha Cutler, Desiree Gruber, Rich Bye, Rich Buhrman, Barbara Schneeweiss, Frances Berwick, Andy Cohen, Shari Levine, Casey Kriley, Alexandra Lipsitz, Michael Rucker, Benjamin Mack, Andrew Wallace | |
| 2007 | Producers Guild of America Awards | Outstanding Producer of Non-Fiction Television | shared with Jana Cha Cutler, Desiree Gruber, Heidi Klum, Dan Cutforth, Jane Lipsitz, Rich Bye, Rich Burhman and Gaylen Gawlowski | |
| 2008 | Primetime Emmy Awards | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program | shared with Dan Cutforth, Jane Lipsitz, Heidi Klum, Jane Cha Cutler, Desiree Gruber, Rich Bye, Rich Buhrman, Barbara Schneeweiss, Andy Cohen, Shari Levine, Casey Kriley, Andrew Wallace, Michael Rucker, Benjamin Mack, Steve Lichtenstein | |
| 2008 | Christopher Award | Christopher Award for best feature films | shared with Denzel Washington, Robert Eisele, Todd Black, Kate Forte, Oprah Winfrey, Joe Roth, Molly Allen, Bob Weinstein and David Crockett | |
| 2009 | Primetime Emmy Awards | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program | shared with Bob Weinstein, Dan Cutforth, Rich Bye, Jane Lipsitz, Jane Cha Cutler, Desiree Gruber, Heidi Klum, Frances Berwick, Andy Cohen, Shari Levine, Casey Kriley, Rich Buhrman, Michael Rucker, Andrew Wallace, Barbara Schneeweiss | |
| 2010 | Primetime Emmy Awards | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program | shared with Bob Weinstein, Jane Cha Cutler, Desiree Gruber, Heidi Klum, Jonathan Murray, Sara Rea, Barbara Schneeweiss, Colleen Sands, Gil Goldschein, Sasha Alpert, Megan Bidner, and Lisa Fletcher | |
| 2011 | Producers Guild of America Award | Outstanding Producer of Live Entertainment & Competition Television Award | shared with Jana Cha Cutler, Desiree Gruber, Heidi Klum, Jonathan Murray, Sara Rea and Colleen Sands | |
| 2011 | Primetime Emmy Awards | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program | shared with Bob Weinstein, Jonathan Murray, Sara Rea, Heidi Klum, Jane Cha Cutler, Desiree Gruber, JoAnn Alfano, David Hillman, Barbara Schneeweiss, Colleen Sands, Gil Goldschein, Lisa Fletcher, Sasha Alpert, Michael Carroll, and Trish Norton | |
| 2012 | Primetime Emmy Awards | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program | shared with Barbara Schneeweiss, Gil Goldschein, Lisa Fletcher, Desiree Gruber, Colleen Sands, Sara Rea, Heidi Klum, Tim Gunn, Jonathan Murray, David Hillman, Bob Weinstein, Meryl Poster, Jane Cha Cutler, Rob Sharenow, and Gena McCarthy | |
| 2013 | Western Heritage Awards | Bronze Wrangler for best Theatrical Motion Picture | shared with Bob Weinstein and Quentin Tarantino | |
| 2013 | British Academy Film Awards | Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film | shared with Simon Curtis, David Parfitt and Adrian Hodges | |
| 2013 | Producers Guild of America Award | Milestone Award | shared with Bob Weinstein | |
| 2013 | African-American Film Critics Association | Cinema Vanguard Award | shared with Bob Weinstein | |
| 2013 | Primetime Emmy Awards | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Special | shared with James L. Dolan, John Sykes, Michael Dempsey, Dan Parise | |
| 2013 | Primetime Emmy Awards | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program | shared with Heidi Klum, Bob Weinstein, Meryl Poster, Jonathan Murray, Jane Cha Cutler, Sara Rea, Colleen Sands, Rob Sharenow, Gena McCarthy, David Hillman, Desiree Gruber, Barbara Schneeweiss, Gil Goldschein, Teri Weideman, and Tim Gunn | |
| 2014 | Primetime Emmy Awards | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program | shared with Bob Weinstein, Meryl Poster, Jonathan Murray, Sara Rea, Heidi Klum, Jane Cha Cutler, Desiree Gruber, Rob Sharenow, Gena McCarthy, David Hillman, Barbara Schneeweiss, Gil Goldschein, Teri Weideman, Rebecca Taylor Henning, Tim Gunn, and Sasha Alpert | |
| 2014 | Harvard University's Hutchins Center for African & African American Research | W. E. B. Du Bois Medal | | 2017 |
| 2015 | Christopher Award | Christopher Award for best feature film | shared with Theodore Melfi, Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping, Fred Roos, Ivana Lombardi, Bob Weinstein, Dylan Sellers, Don Cheadle, G. Max Brown | |
| 2015 | Capri Hollywood International Film Festival | Capri Producer Award | shared with Bob Weinstein | |
| 2015 | Primetime Emmy Awards | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program | shared with Jonathan Murray, Sara Rea, Bob Weinstein, Meryl Poster, Heidi Klum, Mary Donahue, Jane Cha Cutler, David Hillman, Barbara Schneeweiss, Eli Lehrer, Desiree Gruber, Gil Goldschein, Teri Weideman, Sue Kinkead, Cosmo DeCeglie, Tim Gunn, Sasha Alpert | |
| 2016 | Primetime Emmy Awards | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program | shared with Bob Weinstein, Jonathan Murray, Sara Rea, Heidi Klum, Jane Cha Cutler, Desiree Gruber, Eli Lehrer, Mary Donahue, David Hillman, Patrick Reardon, Barbara Schneeweiss, Gil Goldschein, Teri Weideman, Cosmo DeCeglie, Sue Kinkead, Sasha Alpert, and Tim Gunn | |
| 2017 | Primetime Emmy Awards | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program | shared with Bob Weinstein, Jonathan Murray, Sara Rea, Colleen Sands, Heidi Klum, Jane Cha Cutler, Desiree Gruber, Mary Donahue, David Hillman, Patrick Reardon, Barbara Schneeweiss, Gil Goldschein, Teri Weideman, Cosmo DeCeglie, Sue Kinkead, Glenn Morgan, Blue, Tim Gunn | |