José Luis Borau

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1929-08-08

Deathday 2012-11-23 (83 years old)

Place of Birth Zaragoza, Aragón, Spain

José Luis Borau

Biography

Spanish film director and producer, born in Zaragoza. He studied law in his hometown and debuted as a film critic in the newspaper El Heraldo de Aragón. In Madrid, he joined the Instituto de Investigaciones y Experiencias Cinematográficas. He exerted great influence on the medium from his teaching at the Escuela Oficial de Cinematografía. In 1967 he founded the production company El Imán, Cine y Televisión, with which he has financed his own projects and those of other filmmakers. Of his personal work, two films stand out: Furtivos (1975), Golden Shell at the San Sebastian Festival and a great success for its opposition to the limits of censorship at the beginning of the Spanish Transition, and Leo (2000), which won the Goya for best director. However, both his initial commissions, such as the spaghetti western Brandy (1964) and the crime film Crimen de doble filo (1965), and the controversial later films Tata mía (1986) and Niño Nadie (1996), have had little repercussion. Between 1994 and 1998 he was president of the Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España (Spanish Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences). In 2001 he was elected full member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando and in 2002 he was awarded the Premio Nacional de Cinematografía.

Known For

Director

2000
Leo

as Director

1997
Niño nadie

as Director

1993
Celia

as Director

1986
Tata Mía

as Director

1984
On the Line

as Director

1979
La Sabina

as Director

1975
Hay que matar a B.

as Director

1975
Poachers

as Director

1972
My Dearest Senorita

as Assistant Director

1965
Double Edged Crime

as Director

1964
Ride and Kill

as Director

1960
En el río

as Director

Writer

My Dearest Señorita

as Original Film Writer

1997
Niño nadie

as Writer

1993
Celia

as Writer

1986
Tata Mía

as Writer

1984
On the Line

as Writer

1979
La Sabina

as Writer

1977
Black Litter

as Writer

1977
El monosabio

as Screenplay

1975
Poachers

as Screenplay

1975
1972
1964
Ride and Kill

as Screenplay

1960
En el río

as Screenplay

Actor

2018
Lo Siguiente

as Self - Presenter

2011
Enrique Herreros

as Self - Filmmaker

2009
1996
1993
1975
Poachers

as Gobernador

1972
My Dearest Senorita

as Médico (uncredited)

1965
Snakes and Ladders

as Cliente del café (uncredited)

Producer

2001
Anna's Summer

as Producer

1984
On the Line

as Producer

1977
In Memoriam

as Producer

1975
Poachers

as Producer

1975
Hay que matar a B.

as Producer

1970
Estado de sitio

as Producer

Creator

1993
Celia

as Creator