Lensers to fete Cates with governors award

The American Society of Cinematographers has tapped Gilbert Cates to receive its Board of Governors Award.

The org designates the annual kudo to an individual who has made “significant and enduring” contributions to advancing the art of filmmaking.

Previous winners include Gregory Peck, Charles Champlin, Sheldon Leonard, Fay Kanin, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Jodie Foster, Robert Wise, Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Altman, Warren Beatty, Sally Field, Stanley Donen, Norman Jewison and Irwin Winkler.

Cates will receive the tribute at the 19th annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards ceremony Feb. 20 at the Century Plaza Hotel.

“Gil Cates is a modern renaissance man,” said ASC veepee Owen Roizman, who chairs the org’s awards committee. “He has produced and directed many memorable movies, television films and stage plays. Gil was also a forward-thinking president of the Directors Guild of America and a visionary educator who inspired and enabled countless young filmmakers to follow their dreams.”

Cates has produced 11 Academy Award telecasts that have earned 17 Emmy Awards. He is second VP of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences and will produce the 77th annual Oscars.

Cates served as president of the DGA from 1983-87, dean of the UCLA School of Theater, Film & Television from 1990-98 and is artistic director of the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. He also chaired the DGA’s negotiating committee during the most recent round of bargaining with studios and networks, which led to a tentative agreement last month.

Cates broke into show business in the early 1950s as a guide at NBC Television Studios in New York. He was producing and directing gameshows for NBC within a few years and began directing Broadway plays in the ’60s.

Cates produced and directed his first motion picture in 1970, “I Never Sang for My Father,” which was adapted from Robert Anderson’s Broadway play. His other feature credits include “The Promise,” “One Summer Love,” “The Last Married Couple in America” and “Oh, God! Book II.”

Cates produced and directed the Emmy-winning telefilm “To All My Friends on Shore” and received Emmy noms for directing “Absolute Strangers,” “Consenting Adult” and “Do You Know the Muffin Man?”

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