Gilbert Cates
received the
CAS Filmmaker Award
at the 43rd Annual CAS Awards

Gilbert Cates received the CAS Filmmaker Award at the 43rd CAS Awards on February 17, 2007 at the Biltmore Bowl of the Millennium-Biltmore Hotel. Los Angeles. Gil Cates is the second recipient of the CAS Filmmaker Award, which was bestowed to Quentin Tarantino in 2006.

Cates, who is currently the Producing Director of the Geffen Playhouse, is recognized as a leader in television, film and theater with some 30 credits as a producer and director of cinema and television.

Producer, Director Gilbert Cates received the CAS Filmmaker Award for 2007

Mr. Cates produced and directed the 1970 film version of the Broadway hit I Never Sang for My Father, starring Melvyn Douglas, Gene Hackman and Estelle Parsons. The movie earned three Academy Award nominations. He also directed Joanne Woodward and Sylvia Sidney in the 1973 film Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams, which received two Oscar® nominations. Other film directing credits include: The Promise, One Summer Love, The Last Married Couple in America, Oh! God Book II and Backfire.

Mr. Cates further distinguished himself as director and/or producer of a number of television dramatic specials. These include NBC's 1972 Emmy® Award winning To all My Friends on Shore, starring Bill Cosby; ABC's 1974 The Affair starring Nathalie Wood and Robert Wagner; NBC's 1975 After the Fall starring Faye Dunaway and Christopher Plummer. Other credits include: Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye, The Kid from Nowhere, County Gold, Faerie Tale Theatre's Rapunzel and Goldilocks and the Three Bears; Hobson's Choice, Burning Rage, Consenting Adults, Fatal Judgment, Do You Know the Muffin Man, Call Me Anna, Absolute Strangers, In My Daughter's Name, and Tom Clancy's Netforce. He directed James Agee's A Death in the Family, for Masterpiece Theatre's American Collection on PBS. Gil Cates also holds the distinction of producing thirteen Oscar® Award telecasts.

He is a former two-term President of the Directors Guild of America (1983-1987). In 1989, he received the Guild's Robert B. Aldrich Award for extraordinary service and in 1991, he received the DGA's Honorary Life Membership. Cates was Dean of the UCLA School of Theater, Film And Television (which he founded) from 1990-1998. He has served as a member of the Board of Governors for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.