Gary Gilbert

Gary Gilbert is an Academy Award nominated producer, and founder and CEO of Gilbert Films, a feature film and television production company based in Los Angeles, which partners with innovative filmmakers and showrunners to tell character-driven stories that are accessible to mainstream audiences. Gilbert has produced more than a dozen feature films which collectively have been nominated for 18 Academy Awards, 11 Golden Globes, 15 BAFTAs and 7 Film Independent Spirit Awards. Gilbert most recently produced the highly acclaimed award-winning film La La Land. Written and directed by Damien Chazelle (Whiplash), and starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, the film's world premiere served as the opening of the 2016 Venice Film Festival and went on to screen at both the Telluride Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival. The film was distributed worldwide by Lionsgate, and ultimately went on to receive 14 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, winning 6 Oscars including