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.
Oh, God! Book II
(Director)
I Never Sang for My Father
(Director)
Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
(Director)
The Last Married Couple in America
(Director)
Call Me Anna
(Director)
The Promise
(Director)
Consenting Adult
(Director)
Child's Cry
(Director)
Dragonfly
(Director)
To All My Friends on Shore
(Director)
Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye
(Director)
A Death in the Family
(Director)
Innocent Victims
(Director)
The Affair
(Director)
After the Fall
(Director)
Fatal Judgement
(Director)
Absolute Strangers
(Executive Producer)
Absolute Strangers
(Director)
Backfire
(Director)
After the Fall
(Producer)
Have I Got a Christmas for You
(Executive Producer)
Do You Know the Muffin Man?
(Director)
The Berenstain Bears' Christmas Tree
(Executive Producer)
My First Love
(Director)
Dragonfly
(Producer)
Confessions: Two Faces of Evil
(Director)
Skinflint: A Country Christmas Carol
(Executive Producer)
Stubby Pringle's Christmas
(Executive Producer)
The Last Married Couple in America
(Executive Producer)
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
(Director)
Country Gold
(Director)
Country Gold
(Supervising Producer)
I Never Sang for My Father
(Producer)
A Death in the Family
(Producer)
Hobson's Choice
(Director)
Burning Rage
(Director)
The Kid From Nowhere
(Producer)
Child's Cry
(Producer)
Rings Around the World
(Director)
Rings Around the World
(Producer)
In My Daughter's Name
(Executive Producer)
Rapunzel
(Director)
Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
(Producer)
To All My Friends on Shore
(Producer)
The Twilight Zone
(Director)
Faerie Tale Theatre
(Director)
The Oscars
(Producer)