Jeff Margolis, the award-winning TV producer and director of the Oscars, Emmys, Screen Actors Guild Awards and the American Music Awards, has died. He was 78. Margolis’ family shared that he died Friday morning in Nashville. No cause of death was given.

Jeff Margolis, a TV producer and director who specialized in live events from the Oscars to the Emmys and SAG Awards, died Friday in Nashville, Tenn. He was 78. Over four decades, Margolis directed some of TV’s biggest events,

Television executive producer and director Jeff Margolis, who began his career holding cue cards on “Let’s Make a Deal” before going on to direct dozens of Hollywood awards shows and other acclaimed live events,

Jeff Margolis, a prolific TV producer and director whose roster of credits stretching back to the 1970s includes nearly every major awards show and dozens of live events, specials and variety shows, died today in Nashville,