Harvey Weinstein thinks the Oscar race is on with Public Enemies
Leave it to the master at getting a film an Oscar nomination or even yet a win. Harvey Weinstein is already making his preliminary rounds and stating Public Enemies is now the official start of the Oscar campaign regardless of the fact that its barely July and there are but a handful of quality films that have been released thus far. Harvey Weinstein goes on to congratulate Johnny Depp stating: this is the performance where Johnny Depp shows all the range of acting. It’s the leading man as a character actor, it’s the character actor as the leading man, it’s the awareness, the silences, the romantic who becomes enthralled with Billie (played beautifully by Marion Cotillard), but it’s also the flinty, self-aware John Dillinger who knows what good public relations is, who knows what his public persona is, who knows what his characteristic of what he would do and what he wouldn’t do is, and knows whether an action is something “that the people would like.”
Whether or not Weinstein owes other studio heads a favor with his grandstanding it does seem in good sportsmanship and something rarely seen when an opposing studios gives such high kudos to the competition. Weinstein himself before his split form Miramax films had given the studio well over 150 Oscar nominations.
Source: The Daily Beast
