Gilbert Cates
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- June 6, 1934, New York City, New York, USA
- Died
- October 31, 2011
- Movies
- 31
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.
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Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 1999 | $pent | Mr. Walsh |
| 1998 | Inside the Golden Statue | Self |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2002 | A Death in the Family | Director, Producer |
| 2002 | Collected Stories | Director |
| 1996 | Innocent Victims | Director |
| 1994 | Confessions: Two Faces of Evil | Director |
| 1991 | Absolute Strangers | Director |
| 1990 | Call Me Anna | Director |
| 1989 | Do You Know the Muffin Man? | Director |
| 1988 | My First Love | Director |
| 1988 | Fatal Judgement | Director |
| 1988 | Backfire | Director |
| 1986 | Child's Cry | Director, Producer |
| 1985 | Consenting Adult | Director |
| 1984 | Burning Rage | Director |
| 1984 | Goldilocks and the Three Bears | Director |
| 1983 | Hobson's Choice | Director |
| 1983 | Rapunzel | Director |
| 1982 | Country Gold | Director |
| 1982 | The Kid From Nowhere | Producer |
| 1980 | Oh, God! Book II | Director |
| 1980 | The Last Married Couple in America | Director |
| 1979 | The Promise | Director |
| 1977 | Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye | Director |
| 1976 | Dragonfly | Director, Producer |
| 1974 | After the Fall | Director, Producer |
| 1973 | The Affair | Director |
| 1973 | Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams | Director, Producer |
| 1972 | To All My Friends on Shore | Director, Producer |
| 1970 | I Never Sang for My Father | Director, Producer |
| 1967 | Rings Around the World | Director, Producer |
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