José Luis Borau
José Luis Borau Moradell ( born August 8, 1929 in Zaragoza, † November 23, 2012 in Madrid) was a Spanish film director, screenwriter, film producer and actor. For his film Leo 2001 he was awarded with the Spanish Goya Film Awards.
Life and work
Bornu began in 1949, first studying law in Zaragoza. After working a short time as a film critic of the newspaper Heraldo de Aragón, Bornu attended the Escuela Oficial de Cinematografía in Madrid, he with the short film El Río ( " The River " ) successfully completed in 1961 since 1957.
He was regarded as the hope of the "New Spanish Cinema" in the 1960s, but turned in contrast to its oriented to psychological films contemporaries the influenced of Hollywood Spaghetti Western ( Brandy, 1963, German Title: Law of the Bravados ) or Thriller ( Crimen de doble filo, 1965) to, but with modest commercial success.
From working on these films, he concluded that he could really turn him satisfactory films only under its control and, in 1967, his own production company El Imán. For ten years he turned mainly commercials and films produced foreign directors. In addition, he was a lecturer in screenwriting at the Escuela Oficial de Cinematografía.
His first film under complete control of their own was the 1973 political thriller Hay que matar a B. ( German title: B must die ), of his precise, meticulous style first brought into directing, narrative construction and cut to their full advantage.
His greatest commercial success came in 1975 with the Bornu crime drama Furtivos ( German title: poachers ), which is regarded as the most important example of Spanish cinema in Spätfranquismus. In particular, the visual presentation of the actions in the wooded landscapes around Madrid impressed. The film received at the Film Festival in San Sebastian 1975, the Concha de Oro ( Golden Shell dt ) and the prize for the best Spanish- language film.
After Sabina (1979 ) in 1984, he directed the Spanish-American co-production Rio Abajo ( German Title: On the Line ) with David Carradine and Victoria Abril. After he had with Tata mía ( with Imperio Argentina and Carmen Maura ) achieved in 1986 another major success with critics and audiences (including nominated for the Goya Best in category writer), he turned to 1997, when Niño appeared nadie, no further film.
In 1993, Bornu with the television series by Celia stories by Elena Fortún attention to himself, which he really just wanted to write and produce, where he ultimately but also partly directed. She found a considerable audience on Spanish television.
Bornu was a member of the jury of the International Film Festival Berlin 1991. From 1994 to 1999 he was president of the Academia de las Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas, 1995, he founded his own publishing books on cinema, Ediciones El Imán.
In 2001 he received for his film Leo ( 2000) the Goya for best director. He also won the Special Jury Prize of the Spanish Film Festival in Malaga and together with Álex de la Iglesias La Comunidad Fotogramas the Premio de Plata. In 2003, the prose Price Premio Tigre Juan of Oviedo for his story Camisa de once varas. Since July 2007 he was chairman of the Sociedad General de Autores y Editores ( SGAE ), a writer and publisher association, which is mainly active in the copyright fuse. Since February 2008, he was a member of the Real Academia Española, in which he took as a successor to the late Fernando Fernán Gómez seat B.