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Phillip Borsos (May 5, 1953 – February 2, 1995) was an Australian-born Canadian film director, producer, and screenwriter. A four-time Canadian Film Award and Genie Award winner and an Academy Award nominee, he was one of the major figures of Canadian and British Columbian filmmaking during the 1980s, earning critical acclaim and accolades at a time when Canadian filmmakers were still ...
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- May 5, 1953, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Phillip Borsos. Director: The Grey Fox. A leading Canadian filmmaker, Phillip Borsos has enjoyed considerable success in international markets. One of the "Vancouver School", he began his career as a director (and sometime producer and writer) with several short subjects, beginning with Cooperage (1976).
- Director, Actor, Producer
- May 5, 1953
- Phillip Borsos
- February 2, 1995
Dec 2, 2007 · Phillip Borsos, film director (b at Hobart, Tasmania 5 May 1953; d at Vancouver 1 Feb 1995). After a successful career producing and directing theatrical short subjects, he gained international recognition with his first feature film, The Grey Fox, the true story of train robber Bill Miner. Borsos was named best director and The Grey Fox was ...
Mar 17, 2003 · Borsos, Phillip (Obituary) He directed his first feature film at the age of 27, and it became a landmark in Canadian cinema. The Grey Fox (1982), the tale of a gentleman bandit who sought refuge in the wilds of British Columbia at the turn of the century, was a remarkably self-assured debut. A western romance unlike any other, it possessed a ...
Jun 4, 2020 · Phillip Borsos' The Grey Fox (1982) has long been unattainable. A Western of great humanity set in the astonishingly lovely Pacific Northwest of Washington State and Kamloops, BC, it's a different kind of Western. It's one that expresses perfectly the capability of Richard Farnsworth. The same way David Lynch's remarkable The Straight Story ...
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Feb 5, 1995 · Philip Borsos, a director whose work include "Far From Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog" and an Academy Award-nominated short documentary, "Nails," died of leukemia on Thursday. He was 41.
Jan 1, 1995 · Phillip Borsos was a prodigious talent whose brief but admired filmmaking career ended with his untimely death in 1995. Borsos’ legacy belies his mere 41 years in the richness and maturity of his filmmaking, including the acclaimed and much loved feature The Grey Fox (1982) and his lasting impact on the Canadian film community.
