José Luis Borau, UIMP Award for Cinematography

The filmmaker Mario Camus will praise the laudatio of the director of 'Niño Nadie' in an event that will be held in the Royal Hall of La Magdalena in Santander next Monday. With this award, Menéndez Pelayo recognizes her contribution to film heritage.

The director José Luis Borau will receive next Monday at the Palacio de La Magdalena in Santander the UIMP Award for Cinematography which, in its second edition, will recognize his “contribution to film heritage.” The event will be attended by the rector, Salvador Ordóñez, and the filmmaker Mario Camus, who will comment on the director's laudatio. nobody child.

The UIMP Award for Cinematography, which last year in its first edition was awarded to the actress Marisa Paredes, was convened by the Menéndez Pelayo International University (UIMP) with the aim of granting institutional recognition to the figures of the film industry who have best contributed to the dissemination and knowledge of the world of cinema.

This distinction is awarded to personalities in acting, directing, production, production, technique and cinematographic script, whose professional career has enriched the film heritage, a circumstance that the Governing Council of the academic institution considers to occur in a “very notable” way in the figure of José Luis Borau, who was awarded the National Cinematography Award in 2002.

The skilled director began working as a film critic at the Heraldo de Aragón and later studied at the Official School of Cinematography in Madrid. In 1967 he founded his own production company, El Imán, with which for the first ten years he made advertisements and produced films by other directors.

His first self-produced film was the political thriller We have to kill B., in 1974. The following year, he achieved his greatest commercial success with the drama Stealths, with which he won the Golden Shell at the San Sebastián Film Festival and the Award for Best Film in the Spanish Language.

In 1997 he was nominated to win the Goya for 'Best Screenplay' for nobody child and in 2001 he won an Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in the 'Best Direction' section with his film Leo. In addition, he was president of the Spanish Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences between 1994 and 1999.