Guillermo del Toro
Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
1964-10-09
Biography: 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:
07 Spaceys
Deck-A-Rep: The True Nature of Rick Deckard
Nexus Generation: Fans & Filmmakers
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
I'm No Longer Here: A Discussion with Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón
Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy
Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown
Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner
Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock
Hideo Kojima: Connecting Worlds
El último truco
Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan
Men in Suits
Dario Argento: Panico
El Santos vs la Tetona Mendoza
Necessary Evil: Super-Villains of DC Comics
George Pal: Un Marciano De Hollywood En Argentina
Edith Head: Dressing the Master's Movies
Temple of Film: 100 Years of the Egyptian Theatre
Zombie Lover
Fasten Your Seatbelt: The Thrilling Art of Alfred Hitchcock
Drew: The Man Behind the Poster
Light in the Darkness: The Impact of Night of The Living Dead
Metal Gear Solid: Legacy
Bullfighter
Bernard Herrmann: Hitchcock's Maestro
Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss
Starz Inside: Comic Books Unbound
Extraordinary Tales
Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story
The Giant's Dream: The Making of the Iron Giant
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema
Guillermo del Toro: Un director y su Oscar
Creature Designers: The Frankenstein Complex
Lennon or McCartney
Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope
Puss in Boots
The First Hundred Feet, the Last Hundred Feet
The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style
North by Northwest: One for the Ages
78/52
Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business
Hellboy: In Service of the Demon
Hellboy: The Seeds of Creation
Saul Bass: Title Champ
Five Came Back
In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy
The Book of Life
Que es un Fantasma?: The Making of 'The Devil's Backbone'
Surrealistic Nightmares: An In-Depth Look at Walloon Horror Cinema
Spanish Gothic
The Color and the Shape
Pan and the Fairies
The Power of Myth
The Melody Echoes the Fairy Tale
Guillermo del Toro Interviews Paul Williams
Masters of Horror
The Digital Artistry of Pacific Rim
The House Is Alive: Constructing 'Crimson Peak'
Torrente 3: The Protector
The Light and Dark of Crimson Peak
A Living Thing
Hand Tailored Gothic
I Remember Crimson Peak
Crimson Phantoms
Diary of the Dead
Bloody And Groovy Baby! A Tribute to Sam Raimi's Evil Dead 2
Love, Antosha
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
Making Apes: The Artists Who Changed Film
Drew Struzan: An Appreciation of An Artist
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Hellboy
Cronos
The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy
Quantum of Solace
Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters
When Romero Met Del Toro
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
Mollusk
Reclaiming 'Mimic'
A Leap in Evolution: The Creatures of 'Mimic'
Back Into the Tunnels: The Making of 'Mimic'
The Blood Pact: The Making of 'Blade II'
Partners in Crime: Hitchcock's Collaborators
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
Netflix Tudum 2025
Noin
The Thing Expanded
Sangre del Toro
It’s a Mad Max World
The Hanging of Stuart Cornfeld
Frankenstein: The Anatomy Lesson
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