In something of a Hollywood ending for Miramax heads Bob and Harvey Weinstein (word on the street says they’ll split from the studio when Disney restructures it), Miramax’s Academy Awards weekend party was tinged with sentimentality—even as it celebrated the studio's 25th anniversary and its 18 nominations for The Aviator and Finding Neverland. Elle and Premiere magazines and Kodak co-sponsored the cocktails-and-hors-d’oeuvres event the night before the Oscar ceremony in two venues created from the Pacific Design Center’s lobby area.
Miramax’s New York-based vice president of special events, Dina Wise, produced the event with Jeffrey Best of L.A.-based Best Events, with blue lighting, light gray banquettes, white roses and lilies, and tan linens that gave the space a clean look. “Bob and Harvey just like to walk into a room and just have it look good—not themey,” Wise said. (The party was also Wise’s last hurrah with the company: She’s leaving to start her own event production business, Wise & Company, in New York.) Black-and-white blowups from Miramax films decked the gray fabric-covered walls, and plasma screens throughout the space showed a seven-minute reel of Miramax films.
L.A. caterer Patina’s menu featured crab cakes with aioli, mini purple potatoes with caviar, chicken quesadillas with avocado salsa, and stuffed mushrooms. Dessert was flourless chocolate torte with mint sauce and miniature fruit tarts. Per tradition, nominees got extra dessert, when the Weinsteins’ young children presented the award hopefuls with chocolate Oscars from Corporate Concepts—a small, but tasty, consolation for those who didn’t win real ones the next day. (By the way, after having sworn off desserts and losing 80 pounds, Harvey gave away his own chocolate, rather than indulge.)
—Alesandra Dubin
Photos: Dale Wilcox/Berliner Studio/BEImages
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Miramax’s New York-based vice president of special events, Dina Wise, produced the event with Jeffrey Best of L.A.-based Best Events, with blue lighting, light gray banquettes, white roses and lilies, and tan linens that gave the space a clean look. “Bob and Harvey just like to walk into a room and just have it look good—not themey,” Wise said. (The party was also Wise’s last hurrah with the company: She’s leaving to start her own event production business, Wise & Company, in New York.) Black-and-white blowups from Miramax films decked the gray fabric-covered walls, and plasma screens throughout the space showed a seven-minute reel of Miramax films.
L.A. caterer Patina’s menu featured crab cakes with aioli, mini purple potatoes with caviar, chicken quesadillas with avocado salsa, and stuffed mushrooms. Dessert was flourless chocolate torte with mint sauce and miniature fruit tarts. Per tradition, nominees got extra dessert, when the Weinsteins’ young children presented the award hopefuls with chocolate Oscars from Corporate Concepts—a small, but tasty, consolation for those who didn’t win real ones the next day. (By the way, after having sworn off desserts and losing 80 pounds, Harvey gave away his own chocolate, rather than indulge.)
—Alesandra Dubin
Photos: Dale Wilcox/Berliner Studio/BEImages
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Miramax celebrated its 18 Academy Award nominations for The Aviator and Finding Neverland with a cocktails-and-hors-d’oeuvres event in two venues created from the Pacific Design Center’s lobby area.
Black-and-white blowups of Miramax films decked the gray fabric-covered walls.
Arrangements of white roses and lilies gave the space a clean look.
Abundant plasma screen televisions played a reel of Miramax films.
