Guillermo del Toro

Known for DirectingBorn 1964-10-09 (age 61)Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

Guillermo del Toro Gómez (Spanish: [ɡiˈʝeɾmo ðelˈtoɾo]; born 9 October 1964) is a Mexican filmmaker, author, and artist. His work has been characterized by a strong connection to fairy tales, gothicism, and horror, often blending the genres to infuse visual or poetic beauty into the grotesque. He has had a lifelong fascination with monsters, which he considers symbols of great power. He is known for pioneering dark fantasy in the film industry and using insectile and religious imagery, his themes of Catholicism, 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), which was 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, 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story

I Remember Crimson Peak

A Living Thing

Crimson Phantoms

The Power of Myth

The Digital Artistry of Pacific Rim

Noin

Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy

Elvis Goes There

Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia

The Light and Dark of Crimson Peak

The Thin Yellow Line

Wizards: Tales of Arcadia

The Giant's Dream: The Making of the Iron Giant

Futurama

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

The Thing Expanded

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

Men in Suits

Barry

Five Came Back

The Color and the Shape

Pan and the Fairies

The Marked Hour

The Simpsons

Frankenstein

Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner

Pan's Labyrinth

How to Train Your Dragon 2

Masters of Horror

Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans

Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story

Leonardo da Vinci

Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities

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Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

The Book of Life

3Below: Tales of Arcadia

Amores Perros

Love, Antosha

The Strain

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

El último truco

The Melody Echoes the Fairy Tale

District 9

Home Delivery

Frankenstein: The Anatomy Lesson