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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    • InappropriateEmote [comrade/them, undecided]
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      2 years ago

      said it before and I'll say it again. Stalin himself didn't do that. Seriously, do you subscribe to Great Man theory, wombat? It's not very dialectical of you, if so. Truth is, hundreds of thousands of Soviet soldiers as well as countless more millions of civilians saved the world, temporarily, from that specific version of fascism. I don't want to downplay it, it is worth celebrating as long as there is an Earth where celebrations can take place, and I know what you're saying is... noble. Stalin was a hero not a villain. But this simplistic shit gets on my nerves. Stalin didn't save us fascism!! It still exists, and the fascism that was stopped was stopped by people who died en masse, sacrificing their lives and their future. Stalin was just some guy in the right place at the right time, albeit, he did some good shit and had the right takes in a lot of cases and made wise decisions as well as some dumbfuck regrettable cringe decisions. (he was also pretty fucked up and something of a pedo, you know?)

      You rock, womabat, and I'm glad you do what you do. But I can't help but think that in a place (hexbear.net) where we all pretty much agree that Stalin was the good guy on the world stage at that time, your efforts might be better spent reminding everyone how much EVERYONE needs to play a role in class warfare, and not rely on some great leader, let alone, one who is long dead?

      Whatever. I only ever go off about this when I'm drunk. But seriously, I'd be 100% behind you if this got posted in like r/neoliberal or some shit, but here....? I don't know, do a rotation of cool Stalin quotes or something rather than claiming this one dude single-handedly cured the world of fascism when that's obviously not true. Unfortunately.

      I don't know. I love you, wombat, you're awesome, seriously.

      • CyborgMarx [any, any]
        ·
        2 years ago

        There’s a truth no one wants to say but I will bravely speak up, cause that’s just the kind of guy I am

        spoiler

        It’s May 20 and Zhukov saved the world from fascism

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]
          ·
          2 years ago

          Zhukov is my favorite unproblematic soviet leader and as long as I never learn anything about him that will never change.