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Bruce Gilbert has been writing and producing since the late 1970's. He has personally received an Academy Award Nomination for Best Picture, won a Golden Globe Award and the Humanitas Award. His films have been nominated for 24 Academy Awards. His television projects have been nominated for 11 Emmys and won 5 of them.

Career
In 1978 he got his first project off the ground. The film which he co-wrote (uncredited) and Associate Produced was "Coming Home," the first serious home front story about the Viet Nam war from a major Hollywood studio. Directed by the great, Hal Ashby, the film went on to receive 8 Academy Award nominations, winning in the categories of Actor (Jon Voight), Actress (Jane Fonda), and screenplay.

He next Executive Produced the nuclear thriller, "the China Syndrome," starring Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas, and again, Jane Fonda. Co-written and directed by the late James Bridges the original fictional story eerily presaged by less than two weeks, the real-life nuclear accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear facility in Pennsylvania. The film was a big financial success and garnered four Academy Award nominations.

Mr. Gilbert then turned his attention toward comedy with the soon-to-be-classic "Nine to Five," starring Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, and Dolly Parton, in her first screen role. This project was another original story. The film made a film star out of Dolly Parton and Dabney Coleman and also saw one of the last film appearances of the great actor, Sterling Hayden. The title song from the motion picture, "(Working) Nine to Five," has become an anthem. The record went gold, selling over a million copies, and was nominated for Best Song by the Academy.

Moving to New York, Gilbert next worked with the famed director, Alan Pakula (All The President's Men; Klute), and Italian cinematographer, Giuseppe Rotunno, on another original film, the stylish, "Rollover." Starring Jane Fonda, Kris Kristofferson, and the late Hume Cronyn. The film was set in the worlds of high finance and middle eastern oil -- two worlds that had, up till then, seldom been dramatized in feature films.

Perhaps Mr. Gilbert's greatest casting coup came with the independent production of the beloved family drama "On Golden Pond," which starred Henry Fonda, Katherine Hepburn, and Jane Fonda for the first and only time. Shot on location at Squam Lake, New Hampshire, the project had been rejected by all the major studios before eventually becoming a huge international success and garnering 10 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture for Mr. Gilbert and Best Director for Mark Rydell. Henry Fonda won the only Academy Award of his career and Katherine Hepburn won her, record-setting, fourth. The screenplay by Ernest Thompson, also won the Academy Award.

Mr. Gilbert then turned his attention to television, first Executive Producing the TV series of "Nine to Five," starring Rita Moreno, Jane Curtin, Rachel Dennison (Dolly's sister) and Jeffrey Tambor. The series ran for three seasons on the ABC network.

Gilbert then changed formats again, Executive Producing the three hour mini-series, "The Dollmaker" which was nominated for six Emmys, including Outstanding Drama/Comedy Special and won two Emmy awards, Best Actress for Jane Fonda and Best Costumes. The director, Daniel Petrie, won the Directors Guild Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Specials. And the screenwriters, Susan Cooper and Hume Cronyn, won the Best Adapted Drama Anthology award from the Writer's Guild.

Returning to feature films, Mr. Gilbert produced the Sidney Lumet directed, "The Morning After," which garnered another Academy Award nomination for Ms Fonda and co-starred Jeff Bridges and Raul Julia.

Gilbert then returned to writing with the screenplay for the HBO mini-series "By Dawn's Early Light" which he also Executive Produced. The film starred James Earl Jones, who was nominated for an Emmy. The mini-series also won the Emmy for Outstanding Achievement in Visual Effects.

In the 1990's Mr. Gilbert produced the feature films, "Man Trouble," starring Jack Nicholson and Ellen Barkin, directed by Bob Rafelson, and "Jack the Bear," starring Danny Devito. "Jack the Bear" co-starred Reese Witherspoon, who won the Best Youth Actress award from the Young Artist Awards.

Since 2000 Gilbert returned has once again to television, Executive Producing for Turner Network Televison the true-life drama "Glory & Honor" about the discovery of the North Pole by explorers, Robert Peary and the African American, Matthew Henson. Henson's participation in the discovery of the Pole was previously little known, and he is now buried with full honors next to Admiral Robert Peary in Arlington National Cemetery. The film won a Golden Satellite Award for its star, Delroy Lindo and an Emmy for composer, Bruce Broughton.