Director, producer, screenwriter and novelist Guillermo del Toro was born in Mexico on October 9, 1964, in the city of Guadalajara, Jalisco.

He began filming in his hometown when he was a teenager, combining this activity with his studies at the Instituto de Ciencias. At that time he made the short films "Doña Lupe" (1985) and "Geometría" (1987). For ten years he specialized in makeup design, which led him to create his own company, "Necropia", in collaboration with his great friend and animator Rigo Mora.

He was the founder of the Guadalajara International Film Festival (previously called Muestra de Cine Mexicano en Guadalajara), and created the production company Tequila Gang.

His debut feature, "Cronos" (1993), won nine Ariel awards, including Best Film and Best Director, and won Best Screenplay and Best Actor at the Sitges Film Festival.

"Mimic" (1997), was his second feature film and his first work produced in the United States.

Later he undertook new projects fusing fantastic effects with historical fables and used symbolic elements, such as "El espinazo del diablo" (2001), a film with the collaboration in the production of the brothers Agustín and Pedro Almodovar and "El Laberinto Del Fauno" (2006), winner of three Oscar awards (Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction and Best Makeup), which achieved his consolidation at an international level.

Prior to "Pan's Labyrinth", Del Toro returned to vampire films by directing "Blade II" (2002) and made "Hellboy" (2004), a film based on Mike Mignola's comic book. In addition to his work as a director, Mexican Guillermo del Toro has also produced several films, including "El Orfanato" (2007), directed by J. A. Bayona.

He returned to directing with the sci-fi action film "Pacific Rim" (2013). He later released "The Scarlet Summit" (2015), a nineteenth-century ghost story; and "The Shape Of Water" (2017), a fantasy starring Sally Hawkins for which the Mexican won an Oscar and a Golden Globe Award for Best Director.

"The Shape Of Water" also won the Oscar for best film of the year 2017.

In 2019, as producer and screenwriter, he released "Historias De Miedo Para Contar En La Oscuridad" (2019), a film directed by André Ovredal that adapted a book by Alvin Schwartz. A year later, he produced with Robert Zemeckis the film "The Witches" (2020), an adaptation of a book by Roald Dahl.

In 2021 he released as producer the DreamWorks animated film "Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans" (2021), a film based on his own 2015 book that Guillermo co-wrote with Daniel Kraus.

Also in 2021 he produced the horror film "Antlers: Dark Creature" (2021). Other books written by Del Toro are the so-called Darkness Trilogy, co-written with Chuck Hogan and consisting of the novels "Nocturna" (2009), "Oscura" (2010) and "Eterna" (2011).

He collaborated again with Hogan on "The Hollow Beings" (2020). Also from 2021 is "The Alley of Lost Souls" (2021), a film based on a novel by William Lindsay Gresham starring Cate Blanchett and Bradley Cooper.

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    • edwardligma [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      yeah the whole weird pescetarian mental gymnastics of somehow fish dont count as meat, and the number of times ive said :im-vegan: and been asked if i eat fish, and the number of times ive been to restaurants and they tell me yes their 'vegetarian' stuff is vegan and then i ask if it has fish sauce or oyster sauce or shrimp paste and they tell me yes with a quizzical look like they dont even understand the problem

      • Ideology [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        I think a lot of people see it as like a fad diet thing and are used to dieting = avoid red meat and animal fats. Plus medieval traditions categorized fish as acceptable for Lent and other fasting days because fish aren't associated with wealth/landownership and always were more accessible to peasants (you can also find medieval almond milk recipes for the same reason).

        I don't think they understand that veganism is an ethical issue about the treatment of animals as conscious beings. Most people don't even consider the consciousness of animals that aren't housepets.

        • edwardligma [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          edit to add that yeah, basically everyone who asks about veganism immediately assumes its just a health thing

          in my omni days i was on some tourism thing with a group including this old israeli guy, and when we got to the lunch place he was yelling at everyone for being animal abusers for eating meat and bragging about being vegetarian (he had turned vegetarian a few months earlier). then he turned around and ordered the whole fish for lunch, head and all.

          that was always a really wtf moment for me since he really was supposedly doing it 'for the animals' rather than a diet, and in retrospect it may have planted the seed for me to think more about the fucked up double standards we have regarding animals and helped me along the vegan path, so i guess thanks awful old israeli guy