The Producers Guild of America announced on Monday that it is instituting a lifetime ban on disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein, two weeks after the guild’s board of directors unanimously voted to remove him.
Weinstein’s ban comes just four years after the PGA awarded him and his brother, Bob, the Milestone Award, the guild’s most prestigious honor. The PGA noted in its statement that Weinstein chose to resign from the PGA rather than address the guild’s charges.
“In light of Mr. Weinstein’s widely reported behavior — with new reports continuing to surface even now — the Producers Guild’s National Board has voted unanimously to enact a lifetime ban on Mr.