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

    can't believe my CW-labeled comment was removed. "You're loved but this is triggering" Oh thanks. Your love is really making a massive material difference for me right now, mod. Reality is far more triggering than my comment about my thoughts regarding the state of the world. I just spoke about how I felt, which includes a sense of hopelessness I know I share with a lot of other people here. Fucking sucks I can't even express the hurt welling up within me (but directed at no one) in the one place I thought it might be accepted.

    • forcequit [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      You can spoiler with ::: spoiler spoilertitle preceding your text fwiw

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

        Thank you. I'll try to repost with it spoiler tagged and see what happens. I've used the spoiler thing before, but didn't think it was necessary in this case. Apparently I was wrong.

        Edit: for the record, I did this, putting the sensitive material beneath a spoiler tag. Apparently that still wasn't enough for the mod known as Comment, because it was also deleted. As was my response to that. I haven't violated any rules. I haven't directed my anger or angst at anyone. I just expressed my depression in a way I've seen depression expressed here countless times before. I was not sectarian, I was not disparaging of any group or person. I just was saying I was deeply sad and didn't know a way out of it. Again, a sentiment I've seen expressed here repeatedly, and when expressed, the response is unanimously solidarity and kindness. I don't know why I was instead given vitriol and intolerance. I've been around long enough to know that's not the way this site treats people in general, but it pains and angers me that it's the treatment I got today. Whatever. Words on a screen. Fingers crossed I don't get banned for this message edit.

    • COMMENT [she/her]A
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      2 years ago

      Your CW was misleading. "Mild suicidal ideation" isn't talking about planning to end your life soon. It's inappropriate for the mega as well. We have a comm for heavier posts, which is where posts about suicidal ideation should be. Your post's removal wasn't trying to downplay what you're going through.