Guillermo del Toro

Known For: Directing
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: October 9, 1964 (60 years old)
Place of Birth: Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Guillermo del Toro Gómez (Spanish: [ɡiˈʝeɾmoðel ˈtoɾo]; born 9 October 1964) is a Mexican filmmaker, author, and artist. His work has been characterised by a strong connection to fairy tales, gothicism, and horror, often blending the genres with an effort to infuse visual or poetic beauty in the grotesque. He has had a lifelong fascination with monsters, which he considers symbols of great power. He is also known for his use of insectile and religious imagery, his themes of Catholicism, anti-fascism, and celebrating imperfection, underworld motifs, practical special effects, and dominant amber lighting. Throughout his career, del Toro has shifted between Spanish-language films—such as Cronos (1993), The Devil's Backbone (2001), and Pan's Labyrinth (2006)—and English-language films, including Mimic (1997), Blade II (2002), Hellboy (2004) and its sequel Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008), Pacific Rim (2013), Crimson Peak (2015), The Shape of Water (2017), Nightmare Alley (2021), and Pinocchio (2022). As a producer or writer, he worked on the films The Orphanage (2007), Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2010), The Hobbit film series (2012–2014), Mama (2013), The Book of Life (2014), Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018), Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019), and The Witches (2020). In 2022, he created the Netflix anthology horror series Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities, featuring a collection of classical horror stories. With Chuck Hogan, he co-authored The Strain trilogy of novels (2009–2011), later adapted into a comic-book series (2011–15) and a live-action television series (2014–17). With DreamWorks Animation and Netflix, he created the animated franchise Tales of Arcadia, which includes the series Trollhunters (2016–18), 3Below (2018–19), and Wizards (2020), and the sequel film Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans (2021). Del Toro is close friends with fellow Mexican filmmakers Alfonso Cuarón and Alejandro G. Iñárritu, and they are collectively known as "The Three Amigos of Mexican Cinema." He has received several awards, including three Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Daytime Emmy Award, and a Golden Lion. He was included in Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2018, and he received a motion picture star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2019. Description above from the Wikipedia article Guillermo del Toro, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story

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Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema

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Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

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Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema

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Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

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Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

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Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

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Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
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Necessary Evil: Super-Villains of DC Comics

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Drew: The Man Behind the Poster

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Extraordinary Tales

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Spanish Gothic

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The Digital Artistry of Pacific Rim

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The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy

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Pacific Rim

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Pacific Rim

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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

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Mama

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Pacific Rim

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Gravity
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Zombie Lover

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Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope

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Puss in Boots

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Reclaiming 'Mimic'

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A Leap in Evolution: The Creatures of 'Mimic'

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Back Into the Tunnels: The Making of 'Mimic'

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Puss in Boots

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Kung Fu Panda 2
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The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't

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Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown

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Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock

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El último truco

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Edith Head: Dressing the Master's Movies

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Bernard Herrmann: Hitchcock's Maestro

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Starz Inside: Comic Books Unbound

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Hellboy: In Service of the Demon

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Saul Bass: Title Champ

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In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy

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Drew Struzan: An Appreciation of An Artist

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Hellboy II: The Golden Army

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Quantum of Solace

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Partners in Crime: Hitchcock's Collaborators

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Rudo & Cursi

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Hellboy II: The Golden Army

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Hellboy II: The Golden Army

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Insignificant Things

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Hellboy II: The Golden Army - Zinco Epilogue

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Hellboy II: The Golden Army - Prologue

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While She Was Out

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Hellboy II: The Golden Army
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07 Spaceys
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Nexus Generation: Fans & Filmmakers

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Deck-A-Rep: The True Nature of Rick Deckard

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Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner

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The Power of Myth

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Pan and the Fairies
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The Melody Echoes the Fairy Tale

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The Color and the Shape

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Diary of the Dead

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The Orphanage

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Year of the Nail

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Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron