Guillermo del Toro

Directing

Born 1964-10-09 Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico 201 credits Academy Awards 3 Golden Globe Awards 1 BAFTA Awards 1 The George Pal Memorial Award 1 star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 Time 100 1 Science Fiction Hall of Fame 1

Awards

Won 3 Academy Awards

Academy Awards 3 won · 5 nominated

2023 Best Animated Feature Won Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
2022 Best Picture Nominated Nightmare Alley
2018 Best Picture Won The Shape of Water
2018 Best Director Won The Shape of Water
2018 Best Writing, Original Screenplay Nominated The Shape of Water
2007 Best Writing, Original Screenplay Nominated Pan's Labyrinth
— Best Picture Nominated Frankenstein
— Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay Nominated Frankenstein

Golden Globe Awards 1 won

2018 Best Director Won The Shape of Water

BAFTA Awards 1 won

2018 Best Direction Won The Shape of Water

Cannes Film Festival 1 nominated

2006 Palme d'Or Nominated Pan's Labyrinth

The George Pal Memorial Award 1 won

— The George Pal Memorial Award Won

star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 won

— star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Won

Time 100 1 won

2018 Time 100 Won

Science Fiction Hall of Fame 1 won

2017 Science Fiction Hall of Fame Won

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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.