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WINNING SMILES Miramax mogul Harvey Weinstein, with Gwyneth Paltrow on Oscar night 1999, when the actress and Shakespeare in Love took top honors
Gwyneth Paltrow and Harvey Weinstein: Berliner Studio/BEI

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The track record of Miramax, the company Harvey and Bob Weinstein founded 26 years ago, and from which they're now being forcibly parted, is astonishing — $4.5 billion in grosses, 249 Oscar nominations, and the reinvention of the idea of a movie company as an entity whose very name meant something to moviegoers. In light of the recent end of the 12-year-relationship between the Weinsteins and Disney — with Disney keeping Miramax and an 800-plus film library as its own — take a look back at a gallery of their landmark movies, deals, and scenes the brothers' company created.


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