Endgame" director Joe Russo blames Harvey Weinstein for keeping blockbusters out of awards season. During a sit down with The Sunday Times, Russo said that the reason big budget, high grossing films are largely barred from major awards contention is because of a trend "started by Harvey Weinstein.

Joe Russo, one-half of the sibling powerhouse producing/directing team known as the Russo Brothers, posited that today’s blockbuster versus indie discourse is in large part to Harvey Weinstein’s Oscars campaign playbook.

Marvel directors, the Russo brothers– Joe and Anthony– truly know how to speak their minds out and leave no crumbs. Joe discussed what, according to him, is the reason why popular films are getting snubbed at the Oscars despite smashing the box office.

While discussing her 2000 romantic comedy Down to You, Stiles says that Weinstein insisted on including a dance sequence because similar movies had them, noting, “It was just dumb.” After Julia Stiles called out disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein for a dance sequence she says he “needed” her to film for her 2000 romantic comedy Down to You,