Sorry MPAA, too late for you. Harvey Weinstein has been expelled from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences after revelations of his rapes and sexual harassment have come to the forefront. If the MPAA thinks this is enough to erase the stink of sexual harassment from the “industry” in Hollywood, they are solely mistaken. Pedophile Roman Polanski is still a member of the MPAA so booting Harvey Weinstein is nothing more than a failed attempt at a PR move.
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Harvey Weinstein, once one of the most powerful men in Hollywood, was expelled from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Saturday amid a barrage of sexual harassment and sexual assault allegations going back decades.
In a statement, the Academy, as it is commonly known, said “well in excess of the required two-thirds majority” of its members voted to oust Weinstein, the co-founder of Miramax and The Weinstein Company.
“We do so not simply to separate ourselves from someone who does not merit the respect of his colleagues,” read the statement from the Academy’s Board of Governors, “but also to send a message that the era of willful ignorance and shameful complicity in sexually predatory behavior and workplace harassment in our industry is over.”
The Academy held an emergency session to discuss the allegations against Weinstein, which were reported by The New Yorker and The New York Times.
The move by the Academy, the world’s top movie organization and home to the Oscars, is almost unprecedented.