Harvey Weinstein is an Academy Award winning American film producers, who has been accused by many women of sexually assaulting them. He co-founded an entertainment company, Miramax, with his brother Bob and the company went on to produce number of successful independent films like 'Pulp Fiction', 'Clerks', 'The Crying Game', and 'Sex, Lies, and Videotape'. This helped them earn widespread attention and strike a deal with the Walt Disney Company. In 1998, he won the Academy Award for producing the movie 'Shakespeare in Love'. The two brothers later founded The Weinstein Company which produced many critically and commercially acclaimed movies, such as 'The Reader', 'Inglourious Basterds', 'The King's Speech', 'The Artist' and 'Silver Linings Playbook'. In October 2017, Weinstein was accused of sexually harassing or assaulting many celebrity actresses, models, as well as employees at his two companies. While his representatives have maintained that the allegations are all false, many of the victims have come forward to confirm the rumors. He was subsequently fired from the co-chairman post of his own company.