--- title: Kate Winslet Wouldn't Thank Harvey Weinstein for Oscars Win description: Kate Winslet says that her decision not to thank Harvey Weinstein in her Oscars acceptance speech at the Oscars was "absolutely deliberate." canonical: https://time.com/4984308/kate-winslet-harvey-weinstein-oscars/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-10-16T19:01:38.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:48:03.346Z og:title: Kate Winslet Refused to Thank Harvey Weinstein After Her 2009 Oscars Win og:description: "That was absolutely deliberate" og:url: https://time.com/4984308/kate-winslet-harvey-weinstein-oscars/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3f6c508b0f97ccb9/6988e21b97cdff46736b2dab/kate-winslet-refused-to-thank-harvey-weinstein-after-oscar-win-2009.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: 55th New York Film Festival - A Conversation With Kate Winslet og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Kate Winslet Refused to Thank Harvey Weinstein After Her 2009 Oscars Win twitter:description: "That was absolutely deliberate" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3f6c508b0f97ccb9/6988e21b97cdff46736b2dab/kate-winslet-refused-to-thank-harvey-weinstein-after-oscar-win-2009.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Kate Winslet Refused to Thank Harvey Weinstein After Her 2009 Oscars Win > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Oct 16, 2017 7:01 PM UTC  NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 13: Actress Kate Winslet takes part in a conversation during the 55th New York Film Festival at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center on October 13, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images) NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 13: Actress Kate Winslet takes part in a conversation during the 55th New York Film Festival at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center on October 13, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images) Michael Loccisano—Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Oct 16, 2017 7:01 PM UTC Harvey Weinstein’s membership in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences [was revoked](http://time.com/4982921/harvey-weinstein-expelled-from-academy-amid-sexual-assault-allegations/) over the weekend, following reports in The New York _Times_ and _The New Yorker_ detailing [sexual harassment, assault and rape allegations](http://time.com/4979779/harvey-weinstein-sexual-assault-nypd/) spanning decades. But this wasn’t actually the first time Weinstein got some Oscars-related pushback. [The Los Angeles _Times_](http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-kate-winslet-harvey-weinstein-20171014-story.html) reports that Kate Winslet deliberately opted not to thank Weinstein after her Best Actress win at the 2009 Oscars for the Weinstein Company funded and distributed _The Reader_. While Winslet was asked to thank Weinstein if she won, she instead thanked 13 other people and pointedly left his name off the list. “That was absolutely deliberate,” Winslet told the newspaper. “I remember being told. ‘Make sure you thank Harvey if you win.’ And I remember turning around and saying, ‘No I won’t. No I won’t.’ And it was nothing to do with not being grateful. If people aren’t well-behaved, why would I thank him?” Weinstein, who has been [fired from his company](http://time.com/4974058/harvey-weinstein-sexual-abuse-allegations-fired/), has denied “any allegations of non-consensual sex,” his spokesperson said this week. In [an explosive New York _Times_ report](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/us/harvey-weinstein-harassment-allegations.html?%5Fr=0) last week that opened the floodgates for more allegations, Weinstein said: “I appreciate the way I’ve behaved with colleagues in the past has caused a lot of pain, and I sincerely apologize for it.” Winslet added that she was glad that she won’t have to work with Weinstein in the future. One of her first roles was in the Weinstein-funded film _Heavenly Creatures_, something she said she felt he often held over her. “The fact that I’m never going to have to deal with Harvey Weinstein again as long as I live is one of the best things that’s ever happened and I’m sure the feeling is universal,” she told the _Times_. “For my whole career, Harvey Weinstein, whenever I’ve bumped into him, he’d grab my arm and say, ‘Don’t forget who gave you your first movie.’ Like I owe him everything. Then later, with _The Reader_, same thing, ‘I’m gonna get you that Oscar nomination, I’m gonna get you a win, I’m gonna win for you.’ But that’s how he operated. He was bullying and nasty. Going on a business level, he was always very, very hard to deal with — he was rude. 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