1964-10-09 ( 60 years old ) in 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.
Movies
Dario Argento: Panico
2024-10-14
Hideo Kojima: Connecting Worlds
2023-06-17
Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story
2022-10-18
Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters
2022-08-13
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
2021-09-17
Love, Antosha
2019-08-02
Making Apes: The Artists Who Changed Film
2019-01-30
Guillermo del Toro: Un director y su Oscar
2018-11-28
When Romero Met Del Toro
2017-10-23
78/52
2017-10-13
Five Came Back
2017-03-31
I Remember Crimson Peak
2016-02-09
The Light and Dark of Crimson Peak
2016-02-09
A Living Thing
2016-02-09
Hand Tailored Gothic
2016-02-09
Crimson Phantoms
2016-02-09
Creature Designers: The Frankenstein Complex
2015-11-18
Metal Gear Solid: Legacy
2015-09-01
Lennon or McCartney
2014-12-12
The Book of Life
2014-10-01
Guillermo del Toro Interviews Paul Williams
2014-02-24
Necessary Evil: Super-Villains of DC Comics
2013-10-23
The Digital Artistry of Pacific Rim
2013-10-15
Spanish Gothic
2013-07-30
Drew: The Man Behind the Poster
2013-07-19
Extraordinary Tales
2013-02-28
El Santos vs la Tetona Mendoza
2012-11-30
Men in Suits
2012-11-28
Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss
2012-10-30
Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan
2012-09-29
Puss in Boots
2011-10-27
Zombie Lover
2011-10-25
Reclaiming 'Mimic'
2011-09-27
Back Into the Tunnels: The Making of 'Mimic'
2011-09-27
Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope
2011-09-10
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
2010-11-06
North by Northwest: One for the Ages
2009-11-03
El último truco
2008-11-20
Hellboy: In Service of the Demon
2008-11-11
Quantum of Solace
2008-10-29
Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock
2008-10-07
Edith Head: Dressing the Master's Movies
2008-10-07
Bernard Herrmann: Hitchcock's Maestro
2008-10-07
Saul Bass: Title Champ
2008-10-07
In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy
2008-10-07
Partners in Crime: Hitchcock's Collaborators
2008-10-07
Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown
2008-07-24
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
2008-07-11
Starz Inside: Comic Books Unbound
2008-06-10
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
2008-06-03
Drew Struzan: An Appreciation of An Artist
2008-03-25
The Power of Myth
2007-12-26
Pan and the Fairies
2007-12-26
The Melody Echoes the Fairy Tale
2007-12-26
The Color and the Shape
2007-12-26
Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner
2007-12-18
Nexus Generation: Fans & Filmmakers
2007-12-03
Deck-A-Rep: The True Nature of Rick Deckard
2007-12-03
Diary of the Dead
2007-05-26
07 Spaceys
2007-01-01
Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy
2005-10-04
Torrente 3: The Protector
2005-09-30
Hellboy: The Seeds of Creation
2004-07-27
Hellboy
2004-04-02
Masters of Horror
2002-11-06
The Blood Pact: The Making of 'Blade II'
2002-09-03
Bullfighter
2000-10-01
Cronos
1993-11-05
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