Gilbert Cates

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.

  • Title: Gilbert Cates
  • Popularity: 3.518
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1934-06-06
  • Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
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  • Also Known As: Gilbert Lewis Katz, Alan Smithee, Gil Cates
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Gilbert Cates Movies

  • 1998
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    Inside the Golden Statue

    Inside the Golden Statue

    6.3 1998 HD

    A behind-the-scenes look at the preparations for the live broadcast of the 69th Annual Academy Awards ceremony.

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  • 2000
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    $pent

    $pent

    5 2000 HD

    This comic drama examines the relationships and addictions of a group of twenty-something friends with very dysfunctional, yet interesting lives.

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  • 1980
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    Oh, God! Book II

    Oh, God! Book II

    5.167 1980 HD

    God appears before 11-year-old Tracy Richards to ask for her help to spread his word and influence over the world which she suggests the slogan...

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  • 1970
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    I Never Sang for My Father

    I Never Sang for My Father

    6.6 1970 HD

    Hackman plays a New York professor who wants a change in his life, and plans to get married to his girlfriend and move to California. His mother...

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  • 1973
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    Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams

    Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams

    5.6 1973 HD

    Rita, a middle aged New York City homemaker, finds herself in an emotional crisis which forces her to re-examine her life, as well as her...

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  • 1980
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    The Last Married Couple in America

    The Last Married Couple in America

    4.4 1980 HD

    Jeff and Mari Thompson are contently married, but they are stunned to see many of their friends and neighbors going through separations and divorces....

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  • 1990
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    Call Me Anna

    Call Me Anna

    5.7 1990 HD

    Patty Duke portrays herself in this made-for-tv biopic about her struggles as a child star growing into adulthood.

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  • 1979
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    The Promise

    The Promise

    6.3 1979 HD

    A rich student's fiancee has her face destroyed by a car accident, and refuses to return to him fearing the loss of his love.

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  • 1985
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    Consenting Adult

    Consenting Adult

    6.3 1985 HD

    Young and shy Jeff discovers his attraction to men. After struggling with himself he comes out to his parents. Mum eventually listens to his son and...

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  • 1986
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    Child's Cry

    Child's Cry

    5 1986 HD

    A social worker starts working with a shy, withdrawn 6 year old whom she believes is the victim of sexual abuse.

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  • 1976
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    Dragonfly

    Dragonfly

    10 1976 HD

    A man, recently released from a mental hospital, tries to track down his family.

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  • 1972
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    To All My Friends on Shore

    To All My Friends on Shore

    5.7 1972 HD

    An airport redcap works hard to get his family out of the ghetto, only to discover that his son has sickle-cell anemia.

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  • 1977
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    Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye

    Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye

    2 1977 HD

    Based on the best-selling book, this movie focuses on John F. Kennedy's first run for a congressional seat in 1946.

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  • 2002
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    A Death in the Family

    A Death in the Family

    6.5 2002 HD

    A young wife's religious faith is shaken when her husband dies in a car accident.

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  • 1996
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    Innocent Victims

    Innocent Victims

    5 1996 HD

    Army Sergeant Tim Hennis is wrongly convicted of killing the wife and children of an Air Force captain. Based on a true story.

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  • 1973
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    The Affair

    The Affair

    5.5 1973 HD

    A crippled lady songwriter meets an older lawyer who becomes her first love.

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  • 1974
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    After the Fall

    After the Fall

    1 1974 HD

    Adaptation of Arthur Miller's semi-autobiographical play about Quentin, a Jewish intellectual from New York who must reexamine his life and his...

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  • 1988
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    Fatal Judgement

    Fatal Judgement

    7 1988 HD

    A Massachusetts nurse (Patty Duke) is accused of exercising Fatal Judgment in this made-for-TV movie. While tending a seriously ill cancer patient,...

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  • 1991
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    Absolute Strangers

    Absolute Strangers

    1 1991 HD

    A husband tries to keep his comatose wife alive by allowing doctors to terminate her pregnancy. Hearing about this, anti-abortion protesters start a...

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  • 1991
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    Absolute Strangers

    Absolute Strangers

    1 1991 HD

    A husband tries to keep his comatose wife alive by allowing doctors to terminate her pregnancy. Hearing about this, anti-abortion protesters start a...

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  • 1988
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    Backfire

    Backfire

    5.4 1988 HD

    Mara McAndrew's marriage is falling apart. Her husband, Donnie, a Vietnam veteran, suffers troubling flashbacks about the war, leaving him...

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  • 1974
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    After the Fall

    After the Fall

    1 1974 HD

    Adaptation of Arthur Miller's semi-autobiographical play about Quentin, a Jewish intellectual from New York who must reexamine his life and his...

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  • 1977
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    Have I Got a Christmas for You

    Have I Got a Christmas for You

    1 1977 HD

    Members of a town's Jewish community decide to substitute for their Christian friends and neighbors so they can enjoy Christmas. The good folk...

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  • 1989
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    Do You Know the Muffin Man?

    Do You Know the Muffin Man?

    6 1989 HD

    Roger Dollison, a police officer, and his wife, Kendra, are living the American dream. They have two children, Teddy and Sandy, a lovely home, and a...

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  • 1979
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    The Berenstain Bears' Christmas Tree

    The Berenstain Bears' Christmas Tree

    6.5 1979 HD

    Papa Bear and the cubs search the woods for the perfect Christmas tree, but run afoul of the woodland animals who live in the trees they aim to cut...

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  • 1988
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    My First Love

    My First Love

    10 1988 HD

    Widow Jean Miller thinks she's ready for a new romance with her high school sweetheart, Sam Morrissey, a physician of considerable means. The only...

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  • 1976
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    Dragonfly

    Dragonfly

    10 1976 HD

    A man, recently released from a mental hospital, tries to track down his family.

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  • 1994
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    Confessions: Two Faces of Evil

    Confessions: Two Faces of Evil

    4 1994 HD

    Two men being questioned in a police station on Christmas Eve both confess to the murder of a cop. With both stories seeming plausible, an...

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  • 1979
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    Skinflint: A Country Christmas Carol

    Skinflint: A Country Christmas Carol

    5.5 1979 HD

    Charled Dicken's tale A Christmas Carol takes a contemporary jolt in this original musical set in modern-day Tennessee. Cyrus Flint is a mean old...

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  • 1978
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    Stubby Pringle's Christmas

    Stubby Pringle's Christmas

    1 1978 HD

    Ranch hand Stubby Pringle journeys to a Christmas dance, hoping to find his true love, and learns a valuable lesson about the spirit of the holiday...

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  • 1980
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    The Last Married Couple in America

    The Last Married Couple in America

    4.4 1980 HD

    Jeff and Mari Thompson are contently married, but they are stunned to see many of their friends and neighbors going through separations and divorces....

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  • 1984
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    Goldilocks and the Three Bears

    Goldilocks and the Three Bears

    5 1984 HD

    A spirited young girl disobeys her parents and runs off to the wood for the afternoon where she rudely invades the home of a family of bears, taking...

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  • 1982
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    Country Gold

    Country Gold

    6 1982 HD

    An aging country singer becomes irritated with the success of a popular young country singer. However, she is not yet ready to become yesterday's...

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  • 1982
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    Country Gold

    Country Gold

    6 1982 HD

    An aging country singer becomes irritated with the success of a popular young country singer. However, she is not yet ready to become yesterday's...

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  • 1970
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    I Never Sang for My Father

    I Never Sang for My Father

    6.6 1970 HD

    Hackman plays a New York professor who wants a change in his life, and plans to get married to his girlfriend and move to California. His mother...

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  • 2002
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    A Death in the Family

    A Death in the Family

    6.5 2002 HD

    A young wife's religious faith is shaken when her husband dies in a car accident.

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  • 1983
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    Hobson's Choice

    Hobson's Choice

    1 1983 HD

    Daughter of the owner of a shoe store rebels against her father by marrying one of his employees.

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  • 1984
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    Burning Rage

    Burning Rage

    2 1984 HD

    While coal fires burn beneath a depressed mining town a greedy businessman stops at nothing to buy up the mineral rights.

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  • 1982
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    The Kid From Nowhere

    The Kid From Nowhere

    3 1982 HD

    A single mother is overprotective of her mentally challenged son, which has made him angry and difficult, while she denies herself a social life....

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  • 1986
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    Child's Cry

    Child's Cry

    5 1986 HD

    A social worker starts working with a shy, withdrawn 6 year old whom she believes is the victim of sexual abuse.

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  • 1967
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    Rings Around the World

    Rings Around the World

    1 1967 HD

    While writing a book on the circus, author John Shawcross reflects upon the great acts he has seen over the years and the mystique of circus people....

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  • 1967
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    Rings Around the World

    Rings Around the World

    1 1967 HD

    While writing a book on the circus, author John Shawcross reflects upon the great acts he has seen over the years and the mystique of circus people....

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  • 1992
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    In My Daughter's Name

    In My Daughter's Name

    5.3 1992 HD

    A mother takes the law into her own hands after her daughter's murderer is acquitted on a technicality.

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  • 1983
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    Rapunzel

    Rapunzel

    5.4 1983 HD

    A sinister witch steals the baby of a simple candlemaker and his wife and names her Rapunzel. Determined to keep Rapunzel for herself, the witch...

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  • 1973
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    Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams

    Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams

    5.6 1973 HD

    Rita, a middle aged New York City homemaker, finds herself in an emotional crisis which forces her to re-examine her life, as well as her...

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  • 2004
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    Kulturplatz

    Kulturplatz

    6 2004 HD

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  • 1970
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    Kulturplatz

    Kulturplatz

    7.733 1970 HD

    This 1980s revival of the classic sci-fi series features a similar style to the original anthology series. Each episode tells a tale (sometimes two...

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  • 1970
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    Kulturplatz

    Kulturplatz

    8.421 1970 HD

    A live-action children's television anthology series retelling popular fairy tales.

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  • 1970
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    Kulturplatz

    Kulturplatz

    6.97 1970 HD

    An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a...

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