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Congeniality: union of souls between Orsino and Cesario Melancholic love: Olivia in a mood of de-pressionĤ. Orsino as a Petrarchan: enacted feelingsģ. On one side, you had Steven Spielberg, generally regarded then, as now, as the most successful director of all time.2.
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I remember saying to him, "Harvey is saying all this shit about your movie," and he took out the letter Harvey had written him when he had seen the movie saying that it was "a masterpiece." Saving Private Ryan's loss to Shakespeare in Love was the upset that launched a thousand essays. PEGGY SIEGAL (INDEPENDENT PUBLICIST) He convinced them - and everybody else drank the Kool-Aid - that the greatest thing in the world was to win an Oscar. In the late 1990s, Weinstein was at the height of his power in Hollywood, but during the smooth, $25 million production of Shakespeare in Love, supervised by Miramax production chief Meryl Poster and producer Donna Gigliotti, he had little cause to wield it. Brown”), and this was a consolation prize. Who wouldn't?! Then I remember walking down the stairs with my husband and just wanting to get out, but the way it was set up, you fed from the Chandler into the Governors Ball, and standing there was Harvey. Many argue that if the director wins (Steven Spielberg won Best Director for “Ryan,” defeating John Madden), that is the movie that should win. Weinstein was concerned and, mid-screening, demanded an explanation from a colleague at the event. So we had much deeper networks in that part of the world and were much more adept at it. And he said, "I don't want any negative campaigning." And guess which movie won in the screenplay category? "I was expected to keep the secret," she said. It was March 21, 1999, the night Shakespeare in Love won the Academy Award for best picture, an honor many thought rightfully belonged to its stiffest competitor, Steven Spielberg’s $70 million World War II drama, Saving Private Ryan. The stunned Shakespeare team leapt to its feet and all five credited producers - the most for a best picture winner in decades - headed onstage. You’ve got three more months of shaking hands and kissing babies in you.’”, “It all began with Harvey. He first thanked Disney chief Michael Eisner later, his "loving wife" and "rotten kids." In the aftermath of the Oscars, Variety editor Peter Bart offered praise for “Saving Private Ryan” but called it a fair fight. Normally, you would bind that into a trade paper, which we did - but then we "accidentally" had an overrun of about 100,000 copies and spread them all over every Starbucks in West L.A. 20 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Variety has compiled a list of the Oscar’s most controversial best picture winners, covering everything from Harvey Weinstein’s “Shakespeare in Love… This story first appeared in the Feb.
MARCY GRANATA (MIRAMAX EXECUTIVE VP MARKETING) David Brooks kept every single trade and counted, at the end, every single ad. Shakespeare in Love Awards and Nominations. The war film, a critical and commercial smash, was preordained to be that year's best picture Oscar winner. To receive the magazine, click here to subscribe. SWARTZ It's a fallacy that there are a lot of Academy members there. “The era of willful ignorance and shameful complicity in sexually predatory behavior and workplace harassment in our industry is over,” it read. In an October New York Times story that furthered the deluge of accusations against Weinstein, Paltrow said that when she was 22, she reported for a meeting with the producer at the Peninsula Beverly Hills hotel to discuss her first starring role, in his 1996 film Emma. To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. TERRY PRESS (DREAMWORKS MARKETING CHIEF) What I was saying was, "I wonder how much Harvey donated to the campaign to get this. RIC ROBERTSON (ACADEMY EXECUTIVE ADMINISTRATOR) We heard rumors that those were in existence, but we never got any confirmation. And each awards season, he convinced talent to drop what they were doing to campaign for his movie full-time. But ahead of the March 21 ceremony, few believed Shakespeare would actually win best picture.