Highest rated movie: The Grey Fox (1982)
Lowest rated movie: The Mean Season (1985)
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Movies from this director have generally received positive reviews and hold an average rating of 61%.
The Grey Fox is Phillip Borsos's highest rated movie, with a score of 74% based on 11 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Phillip Borsos is The Mean Season, with a score of 52% based on 28 reviews.
Phillip Borsos (May 5, 1953 - February 13, 1995) was Canadian film director and film producer.
Borsos showed an early interest in film-making while attending high school in Maple Ridge, B.C. 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. Three outstanding documentaries done in his early years are Cooperage (1976), Spartree (1977) and Nails (1979). All three won Best Theatrical Short at the Canadian Film Awards, "The Genie Awards", and also received a nomination for an Oscar in the Documentary Short category. He began working on feature-length films and his first, "The Grey Fox", earned him a "Best Director" and "Best Film" at the Genies in 1983. It told the story of Bill Miner, Canada's first train robber and starred Richard Farnsworth.
He followed that success with The Mean Season (1985) and One Magic Christmas (1985). Production problems dogged his biopic Bethune: The Making of a Hero (1990) which starred Donald Sutherland as Dr. Norman Bethune. His final film Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog was produced in 1994. During the same time he was diagnosed with leukemia. He died February 2, 1995 at age 41.
Phillip Borsos has directed films starring Timothy Webber, Wayne Robson, Kurt Russell and Helen Mirren.
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