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Gil Cates |
Gilbert Cates has his 12th assignment as producer
of the annual Academy Awards® telecast, Academy President
Frank Pierson announced. Cates will helm the 77th Awards
scheduled for Sunday, February 27, 2005,
on the ABC Television Network.
Cates, who has eleven telecasts to his credit since 1990, has
produced more Oscar shows than any other producer.
"With eleven shows under his belt, no other producer, living
or dead, even comes close to the depth of Gil's experience," Pierson
said. "We're lucky to have him back!"
Cates' previous outings as producer have garnered 85 Emmy nominations
and 21 Emmy Awards. Cates won the Emmy himself in 1991 for producing
the 63rd Annual Academy Awards telecast.
"I'm delighted that Frank has asked me to rejoin the Academy
for a twelfth stint as producer of a show that I love to do," said
Cates. "I already have ideas whirling around in my head
and can't wait to see them through to fruition on Oscar Night."
The 77th Academy Awards will be preceded by the telecast of
the Academy's official arrivals pre-show from 5 to 5:30 p.m.
Cates also will serve as executive producer of that show.
For the past three years, Cates has served on the Academy's
Board of Governors representing the directors branch (a position
he previously held for nine years from 1984 to 1993). He also
served as dean of UCLA's School of Theater, Film and Television
for seven years and is a former two-term president of the Directors
Guild of America. For the past ten years Cates has served as
producing director of UCLA's Geffen Playhouse, for which he received
the Jimmy Doolittle Award for Outstanding Contribution to Los
Angeles Theater.
Cates has had a distinguished career in both motion pictures
and television. He produced and directed "I Never Sang for
My Father" (1970), a film which earned three Academy Award
nominations, and directed "Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams" (1973),
which collected two more Oscar nominations.
Cates' accolades as Oscar Show producer are among a long roster
of television credits. He earned an Emmy nomination as director
of the 1991 television movie, "Absolute Strangers," starring
Henry Winkler. His credits, under his Cates/Doty Productions
banner, also include "A Death in the Family" (2002), "Collected
Stories" (2002), "Innocent Victims" (1996); 1990's
critically-acclaimed "Call Me Anna," the telefilm based
on Patty Duke's autobiography; the Emmy-nominated "Do You
Know the Muffin Man?" (1990); "Confessions: Two Faces
of Evil" (1993); "Fatal Judgment" (1988); "Consenting
Adult" (1984), for which he earned an Emmy nomination; and "Hobson's
Choice" (1983).
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