Jeremy Kay: A perfect convergence of factors, not a carefully
orchestrated Oscars
campaign, propelled Danny Boyle's crowdpleaser to its Academy
Awards triumph
No person has been more closely associated with the Academy
Awards in recent decades than Weinstein, who won a best picture Oscar in 1999 for «Shakespeare in Love» and who
orchestrated campaigns that resulted in more than 80 statuettes for films released by the studios he ran, including five best picture Oscars for «Shakespeare in Love,» «The English Patient,» «Chicago,» «The King's Speech» and «The Artist.»