Steven Spielberg’s Oscar Curse

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Hollywood’s most beloved filmmaker has spent most of his career losing Academy Awards. Will ‘The Fabelmans’ change that?

would be remembered as one of the ugliest Best Picture fights in Oscar history, largely because of Weinstein’s aggressive campaigning. Miramax hired a battalion of freelance consultants and flooded the trades with ads, which former Miramax marketing executive David Brooks described as “very colorful and fun and romantic—a distinct contrast towas a classic,” publicist Dale Olson said later. “He made it so it was almost criminal not to vote for it.

By casting’s bravura D-Day sequence as a liability, though, Weinstein had channeled one of Karl Rove’s rules of the political dark arts: Attack your opposition’s, not its weakness. “It was shocking to my system,” Press said, “which shows how completely naive I was.” Incensed, she marched into Spielberg’s office and told him what she had heard. The director was crystal clear: “No matter what, I do not want you to get in the mud with Harvey Weinstein.

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