Harvey Weinstein: The Most-Thanked Man at the Oscars 🎬

Harvey Weinstein was personally thanked or praised by name in at least 34 Oscar speeches from 1993 through 2016.

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Why did it take so long for Harvey Weinstein to be outed for allegedly sexually harassing or abusing more than a dozen women? It has a lot to do with the degree of power Weinstein held in Hollywood, which was testified to, year after year, at the Academy Awards. Quartz analyzed Oscar acceptance speeches since 1966, and found that Harvey Weinstein was thanked at least as much as God, and more than any other person except Steven Spielberg. Read more: https://goo.gl/gJnXN2

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