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 categories. Gilbert is a graduate of the University of Michigan, where just prior to his senior year, he partnered with his brother Dan Gilbert to co-found Rock Financial, a mortgage banking company the duo eventually took public in 1998. Rock Financial traded publicly for approximately eighteen months when Intuit/Quicken acquired the company in December of 1999, which is now called Quicken Loans. Along with Dan Gilbert and recording artist Usher, Gilbert is also a co-owner of the National Basketball Association's Cleveland Cavaliers, which won the 2016 NBA Championship.
Is a co-owner of NBA team the Cleveland Cavaliers, along with Usher and the Chairman and Vice Chairman of Quicken Loans.
