Kate Winslet purposely didn’t thank Harvey Weinstein at Oscars

Kate Winslet offered plenty of thanks in her 2009 Oscars acceptance speech for "The Reader," but one notable name was missing: Harvey Weinstein.

Weinstein's production company had distributed the post-World War II drama, and the Hollywood honcho had aggressively campaigned for Winslet.

But he was not among the 19 people she thanked, and with good reason.

"That was deliberate. That was absolutely deliberate," the actress told the Los Angeles Times. "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?"

Winslet's purposeful omission came nearly ten years before Weinstein would go on to become the subject of two shocking exposés in which decades of alleged sexual harassment, sexual assault and rape were revealed.

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But Winslet's grievances with the disgraced producer stretch back years, to when Weinstein distributed her first film, "Heavenly Creatures," and never let her forget it.

"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," she recalled. "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."

And it was such behavior surrounding her Oscar campaign for "The Reader" that left the star, 42, especially miffed.

Weinstein reportedly "badgered" producer Sydney Pollack on his deathbed and "harassed" the widow of producer Anthony Minghella after director Stephen Daldry said the film would not be ready in time for Oscar season.

"I can't even begin to describe the disgraceful behavior that went on — and I'm actually not going to because it's a can of worms that I'm not prepared to publicly open — nothing to do with sexual harassment, thankfully, lucky me," Winslet said. "My god. I somehow dodged that bullet."

Though the "Titanic" actress clearly had her misgivings about Weinstein back in 2009, Winslet said in a statement last week that she was "shocked" to hear the numerous allegations against him.

She did, however, acknowledge that she was well aware of swirling speculation surrounding the skeevy mogul.

"I had hoped that these kinds of stories were just made up rumors, maybe we have all been naïve," she wrote. "And it makes me so angry."

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