Guillermo del Toro

Guillermo del Toro Gómez born 9 October 1964 is a Mexican filmmaker and author A recipient of three Academy Awards three BAFTA Awards and an Emmy Award his work has been characterized by a strong connection to fairy tales and horror with an effort to infuse visual or poetic beauty in the grotesque He has had a lifelong fascination with monsters which he considers symbols of great power He is also known for his use of insectile and religious imagery the themes of Catholicism and celebrating imperfection underworld and clockwork motifs practical special effects dominant amber lighting and his frequent collaborations with actors Ron Perlman and Doug Jones Throughout his career del Toro has shifted between Spanishlanguage filmssuch as Cronos 1993 The Devils Backbone 2001 and Pans Labyrinth 2006and Englishlanguage 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 Dont Be Afraid of the Dark 2010 The Hobbit film series 20122014 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 Toros Cabinet of Curiosities featuring a collection of classical horror stories With Chuck Hogan he coauthored The Strain trilogy of novels 20092011 later adapted into a comicbook series 201115 and a liveaction television series 201417 With DreamWorks Animation and Netflix he created the animated franchise Tales of Arcadia which includes the series Trollhunters 201618 3Below 201819 and Wizards 2020 and the sequel film Trollhunters Rise of the Titans 2021 Also with DreamWorks he executive produced Puss in Boots 2011 Kung Fu Panda 2 2011 Rise of the Guardians 2012 and Kung Fu Panda 3 2016 Del Toro is close friends with fellow Mexican filmmakers Alfonso Cuarón and Alejandro G Iñárritu and they are collectively known as The Three Amigos of Cinema He was included in Time magazines 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