Keira Knightley may be six months pregnant but there will be no slackening in pace as she sashays up the red carpet at the Oscars tomorrow. Make-up can hide any exhaustion after all. For the young British star, nominated as Best Actress for her role in The Imitation Game, the war-time movie about the Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing, it will be the last leg of a marathon of pre-award parties, post-award parties, talk show appearances and discussion events to promote the film. It is a schedule that has prompted concern from a midwife and left her looking tired. Like countless other Oscars contenders, Knightley has learnt that there is no such thing as a night off when you are campaigning for a Harvey Weinstein film. Hollywood’s most famous and most influential producer was not nicknamed The Punisher for nothing.
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Keira Knightley is nominated for her role in Weinstein's The Imitation Game
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Nicknamed The Punisher, he is Hollywood's most influential producer
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62-year-old is admired, feared and loathed in equal measure in Hollywood
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He has been accused of trying to throttle one film executive in a restaurant
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Also revered as a man with unmatched skill in nurturing independent films
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And he has championed the careers of Gwyneth Paltrow and Meryl Streep
@placeholder’s reputation as a savage slasher of films in the cutting room if he regards them as too long or too slow, has earned him the nickname Harvey Scissorhands.