The dinner on Tuesday, sponsored by the watch company Jaeger-LeCoultre, was also co-hosted by Harvey Weinstein.
But Harvey Weinstein is in the middle of what appears to be a comeback.
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The King's Speech was a triumph for Hollywood's king distributor and promoter Harvey Weinstein.
Dimension Films co-chairman Harvey Weinstein told Reuters news agency that he was "disappointed" at the film's performance.
"I think there's no question that it's going to be an Oscar favourite, " Harvey Weinstein told the BBC.
"Disney is a target that's too vulnerable in a situation like this, " Harvey Weinstein says in Thursday's Los Angeles Times.
Harvey Weinstein says he's been talking to long-time collaborators such as Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez about doing television for some time.
The group outbid Bob and Harvey Weinstein who founded the studio back in 1979 and named it for their parents, Max and Miriam.
The role of producer Harvey Weinstein, who backed the movie's US release and masterminded its highly successful awards campaign, should not be underestimated either.
Harvey Weinstein speculated that the board might be moving toward changes.
"As an independent studio, we embrace all of the new avenues people are choosing to use when seeing their favorite movies, " said TWC Co-Chairman Harvey Weinstein.
He called in favors from pals like Phil Collins and Paul McCartney, whom he knew from his musician days, and from newer friends like movie producer Harvey Weinstein.
Snatched up in a flash by Harvey Weinstein's TWC-Radius at Sundance, it's on track for the same Academy Award that "Searching for Sugar Man" claimed a few months ago.
Which is partly why, in 2002, when Miramax cofounder Harvey Weinstein approached her about collaborating on a show he wanted to do about fashion and models, she was uncertain.
Harvey Weinstein is the undisputed king of the Oscars.
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Miss Havisham was an obvious reference point for designers Georgina Chapman and Keren Craig of the label Marchesa, a favorite on the red carpet (Chapman is married to movie mogul Harvey Weinstein).
"It's not quite broken yet, " Obama said to laughter from some of the 60 donors who gathered in the home of film producer Harvey Weinstein, a major donor and bundler for Obama's re-election campaign.
Even more recently, he made an attempt, with fellow billionaires Bob and Harvey Weinstein, to gain control of the famed Disney film studio Miramax, which had been going through its own financial woes.
All of this has Harvey Weinstein sitting pretty.
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But never count Harvey Weinstein out.
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It turned out to be the world premiere of eventual best picture nominee "Shine, " which drew a standing ovation and the wrath of Miramax chief Harvey Weinstein, who went ballistic later that night in a Park City restaurant after losing out on the distribution rights.
"Juno" and "Waitress" are films that were snapped up by the major studios' indie divisions, and both films benefited from the modern-day slow rollout strategies created by brothers Harvey and Bob Weinstein, who founded the onetime independent Miramax in the late '70s.
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