# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/phillip-borsos
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:48:38.345Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/phillip-borsos"
name: "Phillip Borsos"
slug: "phillip-borsos"
description: "Phillip Borsos 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 struggling to gain attention outside of North America."
tagline: "Canadian film director and producer (1953–1995)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/nhILe7p2AU0c4ShqyeAmb8OpZfM.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1953-05-05"
deathDate: "1995-02-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.89
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.816776
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0097491/"
    handle:    "nm0097491"
sources:
  - url: "https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip_Borsos"
    title: "Phillip Borsos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%BE_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "فيليپ بورسوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip_Borsos"
    title: "Phillip Borsos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip_Borsos"
    title: "Phillip Borsos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip_Borsos"
    title: "Phillip Borsos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%BE_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "فیلیپ بورسوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip_Borsos"
    title: "Phillip Borsos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1405474"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/148119"
    title: "Phillip Borsos"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump