In her time with the Oscar winner, she worked in various capacities on 14 films, including Charles Bronson starrer Death Wish (1974), Sydney Pollack’s Three Days of the Condor (1975), Western The Shootist (1976), King Kong (1976), starring Jeff Bridges and Charles Grodin, and Milos Forman’s Ragtime.

She was the key executive on 1991 Oscar winner Miditerraneo, Giuseppe Tornatore’s The Star Maker, which was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film in 1996, and Michael Radford’s The Postman.

The latter film won the Oscar for Best Music, Original Dramatic Score in 1996, also scoring noms for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay.

Later in her career, Gross set up her own business, overseeing Oscar campaigns for foreign films.