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Phillip Borsos was born on 5 May, 1953 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, is a Canadian filmmaker (1953–1995). Discover Phillip Borsos's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 41 years old?
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Film director, film producer, screenwriter |
Age |
41 years old |
Zodiac Sign |
Taurus |
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5 May, 1953 |
Birthday |
5 May |
Birthplace |
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia |
Date of death |
2 February, 1995 |
Died Place |
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
Nationality |
Canada
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Phillip Borsos Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Phillip Borsos's Wife?
His wife is Beret Paulsen Borsos
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Beret Paulsen Borsos |
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2 |
Phillip Borsos Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Phillip Borsos worth at the age of 41 years old? Phillip Borsos’s income source is mostly from being a successful Film director. He is from Canada. We have estimated Phillip Borsos's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Film director |
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Timeline
Phillip Borsos (May 5, 1953 – February 2, 1995) was an Australian-born Canadian film director, producer, and screenwriter.
Borsos was born in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia in 1953.
His father was a Hungarian sculptor and his mother an English nurse.
His family emigrated to Canada when he was five years old, settling in Trail, British Columbia.
Borsos showed an early interest in film-making while attending high school in Maple Ridge.
He acquired a 16mm Bolex camera from his father and began making short films and documentaries.
After high school, he studied film at the Banff Centre School for Fine Arts and at the Vancouver School of Art, now the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design.
His early work included several shorts notable for their cinematography and pacing.
Borsos established himself as a filmmaker to watch in the 1970s with three assured short documentaries: Cooperage (1976), Spartree (1977) and Nails (1979).
All three won Best Theatrical Short at the Canadian Film Awards, and Nails received a nomination for an Academy Award in the Documentary Short category.
In 1976, he incorporated his own company, Mercury Pictures, to produce commercials and sponsored films.
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 struggling to gain attention outside of North America.
In 1982, at the age of 27, he emerged as a major directing talent with his feature debut, The Grey Fox.
This dramatic, authentic dissection of the Canadian West won seven Genie Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, as well as being nominated for two Golden Globe Awards, including Best Foreign Film.
It is still regarded as one of the best films ever made in Canada.
Production problems dogged his biopic Bethune: The Making of a Hero (1990), which starred Donald Sutherland as Dr. Norman Bethune, and took four excruciating years to make.
There were delays, crew mutinies, technical disasters and endless feuds over the script.
On location in remote areas of rural China, with Chinese bureaucrats as his co-producers, Borsos was pushed to his limit.
In the end, the producers froze him out of the final editing process and finished the film without him.
Regardless, it received critical accolades, and earned him a Genie Award nomination for Best Director.
His final film, Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog, was shot on and around his summer home on Mayne Island.
Based on his script, with characters named after his children, it was his most personal film, an adventure about a boy stranded in the woods with his dog.
In early 1994, he was diagnosed with acute myeloblastic leukemia.
It was released in 1995, only a month before his passing, and was nominated for Best Family Feature at that year's Young Artist Awards.
Borsos was married to his wife, Beret, with whom he had two sons.
He died February 2, 1995, at age 41.
The Whistler Film Festival annually presents the Borsos Competition, a set of juried awards named in honour of Phillip Borsos, for which Canadian films screening at the festival are eligible.
Borsos is considered a pioneer of the British Columbian film industry, being among the early directors to utilize and highlight its abundant and visually-stunning landscapes, and helping to establish the province's reputation as Hollywood North.