José Luis Borau

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.

Crew

All Directing Production Writing

My Dearest Senorita

Department Directing

Job Assistant Director

Average Rating

6.5

32 votes

Release Date

Feb 17, 1972

54 years ago
My Dearest Senorita

Department Writing

Job Writer

Average Rating

6.5

32 votes

Release Date

Feb 17, 1972

54 years ago
Poachers

Department Directing

Job Director

Average Rating

6.0

31 votes

Release Date

Sep 08, 1975

51 years ago
Poachers

Department Production

Job Producer

Average Rating

6.0

31 votes

Release Date

Sep 08, 1975

51 years ago
Poachers

Department Writing

Job Screenplay

Average Rating

6.0

31 votes

Release Date

Sep 08, 1975

51 years ago
Tata Mía

Department Writing

Job Writer

Average Rating

5.5

16 votes

Release Date

Jan 01, 1986

40 years ago
Tata Mía

Department Directing

Job Director

Average Rating

5.5

16 votes

Release Date

Jan 01, 1986

40 years ago
Tata Mía

Department Production

Job Producer

Average Rating

5.5

16 votes

Release Date

Jan 01, 1986

40 years ago
Un, dos, tres, al escondite inglés

Department Production

Job Producer

Average Rating

5.4

9 votes

Release Date

Mar 23, 1970

56 years ago
Black Litter

Department Writing

Job Writer

Average Rating

5.4

8 votes

Release Date

Sep 30, 1977

49 years ago
On the Line

Department Directing

Job Director

Average Rating

4.1

7 votes

Release Date

Nov 07, 1984

42 years ago
Leo

Department Directing

Job Director

Average Rating

6.8

7 votes

Release Date

Sep 01, 2000

25 years ago
On the Line

Department Production

Job Producer

Average Rating

4.1

7 votes

Release Date

Nov 07, 1984

42 years ago
On the Line

Department Writing

Job Writer

Average Rating

4.1

7 votes

Release Date

Nov 07, 1984

42 years ago
Leo

Department Writing

Job Writer

Average Rating

6.8

7 votes

Release Date

Sep 01, 2000

25 years ago
Leo

Department Production

Job Producer

Average Rating

6.8

7 votes

Release Date

Sep 01, 2000

25 years ago
B. Must Die

Department Directing

Job Director

Average Rating

4.0

6 votes

Release Date

Jun 14, 1975

51 years ago
Anna's Summer

Department Production

Job Producer

Average Rating

4.5

6 votes

Release Date

Aug 30, 2001

24 years ago
B. Must Die

Department Writing

Job Writer

Average Rating

4.0

6 votes

Release Date

Jun 14, 1975

51 years ago
B. Must Die

Department Production

Job Producer

Average Rating

4.0

6 votes

Release Date

Jun 14, 1975

51 years ago
Niño nadie

Department Directing

Job Director

Average Rating

4.2

5 votes

Release Date

Apr 04, 1997

29 years ago
Niño nadie

Department Writing

Job Writer

Average Rating

4.2

5 votes

Release Date

Apr 04, 1997

29 years ago
Double Edged Crime

Department Directing

Job Director

Average Rating

6.0

5 votes

Release Date

May 26, 1965

61 years ago
In Memoriam

Department Production

Job Producer

Average Rating

5.8

4 votes

Release Date

Sep 05, 1977

49 years ago
La Sabina

Department Directing

Job Director

Average Rating

5.0

3 votes

Release Date

Nov 03, 1979

47 years ago
La Sabina

Department Writing

Job Writer

Average Rating

5.0

3 votes

Release Date

Nov 03, 1979

47 years ago
Ride and Kill

Department Writing

Job Screenplay

Average Rating

6.0

2 votes

Release Date

Apr 30, 1964

62 years ago
Ride and Kill

Department Directing

Job Director

Average Rating

6.0

2 votes

Release Date

Apr 30, 1964

62 years ago
El monosabio

Department Writing

Job Screenplay

Average Rating

6.8

2 votes

Release Date

Feb 04, 1977

49 years ago
Estado de sitio

Department Production

Job Producer

Average Rating

3.0

1 votes

Release Date

Jun 10, 1970

56 years ago
En el río

Department Directing

Job Director

Average Rating

5.0

1 votes

Release Date

May 25, 1960

66 years ago
En el río

Department Writing

Job Screenplay

Average Rating

5.0

1 votes

Release Date

May 25, 1960

66 years ago
My Dearest Señorita

Department Writing

Job Original Film Writer

Average Rating

0.0

0 votes

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