Gilbert Cates

Gilbert “Gil” Cates (born June 6, 1934) is an American film director and television producer. He is probably best known for producing the annual Academy Award shows. In September 2007, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that he would be producing the 80th Academy Awards, his 14th time. The awards took place on Sunday February 24, 2008. Cates directed a number of feature films including I Never Sang for My Father (1970) and Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973), Oh, God! Book II (1980) and The Last Married Couple in America (1980). Cates was born Gilbert Katz in New York City, the son of Nina (née Peltzman) and Nathan Katz, who was a dress manufacturer. There he attended DeWitt Clinton High School. He is the uncle of noted actress Phoebe Cates and a brother of the producer and director Joseph Cates, with whom he collaborated from time to time. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gilbert  Cates, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Backfire 1988Movie Director

The Promise 1979Movie Director

The Last Married Couple in America 1980Movie Director

To All My Friends on Shore 1972Movie Director, Producer

I Never Sang for My Father 1970Movie Director, Producer

Do You Know the Muffin Man? 1989Movie Director

Confessions: Two Faces of Evil 1994Movie Director

Inside the Golden Statue 1998Movie as Self

Oh, God! Book II 1980Movie Director

My First Love 1988Movie Director

Absolute Strangers 1991Movie Director

The Affair 1973Movie Director