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Academy Awards Producer Gilbert Cates Dies

11/02/2011
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(TMZ) Legendary Academy Awards producer Gilbert Cates has died ... TMZ has learned.

Cates was known as THE go-to producer for the Oscars -- putting together a record 14 shows over 18 years, between 1990 and 2008 ... more than any other Academy Awards producer in history.

Sources tell TMZ, Gilbert's body was discovered in a parking lot at UCLA. He was 77. more on this story

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