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.

The director claims that before the 1990s, blockbuster movies were more regularly recognized by major awards bodies.The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your Inbox

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,