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Guillermo del Toro

Guillermo del Toro

Director · b. 1964 · 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.

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    Puss in Boots

    2011 · 4.8K votes

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    Quantum of Solace

    2008 · 8.8K votes

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    The Book of Life

    2014 · 3K votes

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    Hellboy II: The Golden Army

    2008 · 5.7K votes

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    Hellboy

    2004 · 7.6K votes

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    Don't Be Afraid of the Dark

    2010 · 1.2K votes

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    Cronos

    1993 · 797 votes

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    Diary of the Dead

    2007 · 926 votes

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    Love, Antosha

    2019 · 61 votes

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    L'apocalypse selon Mad Max

    It’s a Mad Max World

    2025 · 6 votes

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    78/52

    2017 · 153 votes

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    The Thing Expanded

    2026 · 5 votes

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    The Simpsons

    1989 · 11K votes

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    Jimmy Kimmel Live!

    2003 · 217 votes

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    Futurama

    1999 · 3.9K votes

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    Golden Globe Awards

    1944 · 20 votes

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    The Oscars

    1953 · 84 votes

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    Barry

    2018 · 1.2K votes

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    The Game Awards

    2014 · 4 votes

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    Five Came Back

    2017 · 75 votes

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    HypaSpace

    2002 · 3 votes

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    The Director's Chair

    2014 · 5 votes

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    Leonardo da Vinci

    2024 · 12 votes

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    Elvis Goes There

    2019 · 2 votes