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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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23 November 1982
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 news.
21 September 1984
While coal fires burn beneath a depressed mining town a greedy businessman stops at nothing to buy up the mineral rights.
01 March 1976
A man, recently released from a mental hospital, tries to track down his family.
18 October 1988
A Massachusetts nurse (Patty Duke) is accused of exercising Fatal Judgment in this made-for-TV movie.
17 January 1994
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 investigator is called in to determine which suspect is telling the truth - and why the other one is lying.
21 January 1996
Army Sergeant Tim Hennis is wrongly convicted of killing the wife and children of an Air Force captain.
25 February 1972
An airport redcap works hard to get his family out of the ghetto, only to discover that his son has sickle-cell anemia.
22 October 1989
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 dog named Rex.
10 May 1992
A mother takes the law into her own hands after her daughter's murderer is acquitted on a technicality.
21 October 1973
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 relationships with her mother, her eye doctor husband, her alienated daughter and estranged son.
08 March 1979
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.
06 December 1967
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.
14 April 1991
A husband tries to keep his comatose wife alive by allowing doctors to terminate her pregnancy. Hearing about this, anti-abortion protesters start a legal campaign to gain legal custody of the fetus.
17 December 1978
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 along the way.
10 December 1974
Adaptation of Arthur Miller's semi-autobiographical play about Quentin, a Jewish intellectual from New York who must reexamine his life and his troubled relationship with Holga.
11 November 1990
Patty Duke portrays herself in this made-for-tv biopic about her struggles as a child star growing into adulthood.
01 January 1998
A behind-the-scenes look at the preparations for the live broadcast of the 69th Annual Academy Awards ceremony.
16 December 1977
Members of a town's Jewish community decide to substitute for their Christian friends and neighbors so they can enjoy Christmas.
18 December 1979
Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" takes a contemporary jolt in this original musical set in modern-day Tennessee.
04 January 1982
A single mother is overprotective of her mentally challenged son, which has made him angry and difficult, while she denies herself a social life.
03 April 1980
Jeff and Mari Thompson are contently married, but they are stunned to see many of their friends and neighbors going through separations and divorces.
21 June 1988
Mara McAndrew's marriage is falling apart. Her husband, Donnie, a Vietnam veteran, suffers troubling flashbacks about the war, leaving him unresponsive to her needs.
18 October 1970
A man living in the towering shadow of his aging father finds it difficult to start a new chapter in his life by marrying his girlfriend and moving to California.
04 December 1988
Widow Jean Miller thinks she's ready for a new romance with her high school sweetheart, Sam Morrissey, a physician of considerable means.
21 December 1983
Daughter of the owner of a shoe store rebels against her father by marrying one of his employees.
25 March 2002
A young wife's religious faith is shaken when her husband dies in a car accident.
04 February 1985
Young and shy Jeff discovers his attraction to men. After struggling with himself he comes out to his parents.
05 February 1983
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 locks her up in a tall tower all alone, with no way in or out except by climbing her long, braided hair.
03 October 1980
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 'Think God.
20 November 1973
A crippled lady songwriter meets an older lawyer who becomes her first love.
03 December 1979
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 down.
27 January 1977
Based on the best-selling book, this movie focuses on John F. Kennedy's first run for a congressional seat in 1946.
09 January 1984
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 advantage of all its comforts and thoughtlessly wrecking things.
09 February 1986
A social worker starts working with a shy, withdrawn 6 year old whom she believes is the victim of sexual abuse.
01 March 1999
This comic drama examines the relationships and addictions of a group of twenty-something friends with very dysfunctional, yet interesting lives.
