38 Facts About Guillermo Del Toro

Guillermo del Toro Gomez is a Mexican filmmaker, author, and actor.

Guillermo Del Toro directed the Academy Award-winning fantasy films Pan's Labyrinth and The Shape of Water, winning the Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture for the latter.

Guillermo Del Toro has had a lifelong fascination with monsters, which he considers symbols of great power.

Guillermo Del Toro is 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.

Del Toro was born in Guadalajara, the son of Guadalupe Gomez and automotive entrepreneur Federico del Toro Torres, both of Spanish descent.

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When del Toro was about eight years old, he began experimenting with his father's Super 8 camera, making short films with Planet of the Apes toys and other objects.

Del Toro made about 10 short films before his first feature, including one titled Matilde, but only the last two, Dona Lupe and Geometria, have been made available.

Guillermo Del Toro wrote four episodes and directed five episodes of the cult series La Hora Marcada, along with other Mexican filmmakers such as Emmanuel Lubezki and Alfonso Cuaron.

Guillermo Del Toro spent 10 years as a special-effects make-up designer and formed his own company, Necropia.

In 1997, at the age of 33, Guillermo was given a $30 million budget from Miramax Films to shoot another film, Mimic.

Guillermo Del Toro was ultimately unhappy with the way Miramax treated him during production, which led to his friend James Cameron almost coming to blows with Miramax co-founder and owner Harvey Weinstein during the 70th Academy Awards.

Del Toro has directed a wide variety of films, from comic book adaptations to historical fantasy and horror films, two of which are set in Spain in the context of the Spanish Civil War under the authoritarian rule of Francisco Franco.

Guillermo Del Toro is close friends with two other prominent and critically praised Mexican filmmakers Alfonso Cuaron and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu.

Del Toro has contributed to the web series Trailers from Hell.

On May 30,2010, del Toro left the project due to extended delays brought on by MGM's financial troubles.

On December 1,2008, del Toro expressed interest in a stop-motion remake to Roald Dahl's novel The Witches, collaborating with Alfonso Cuaron.

Del Toro directed Pacific Rim, a science fiction film based on a screenplay by del Toro and Travis Beacham.

Del Toro directed "Night Zero", the pilot episode of The Strain, a vampire horror television series based on the novel trilogy of the same name by del Toro and Chuck Hogan.

FX has commissioned the pilot episode, which del Toro scripted with Hogan and was filmed in Toronto in September 2013.

Del Toro has described the film as "a very set-oriented, classical but at the same time modern take on the ghost story", citing The Omen, The Exorcist and The Shining as influences.

Guillermo Del Toro was selected to be on the jury for the main competition section of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.

Del Toro directed the Cold War drama film The Shape of Water, starring Sally Hawkins, Octavia Spencer, and Michael Shannon.

However, del Toro moved his deal to DreamWorks Animation in late 2010.

In 2019, del Toro appeared in Hideo Kojima's video game Death Stranding, providing his likeness for the character Deadman.

In 2008, del Toro announced Pinocchio, a dark stop-motion film based on the Italian novel The Adventures of Pinocchio, co-directed by Adam Parrish King, with The Jim Henson Company as production company, and music by Nick Cave.

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In 2017, del Toro announced that Patrick McHale is co-writing the script of the film.

In November 2017, it was reported that del Toro had cancelled the project because no studios were willing to finance it.

Del Toro was married to Lorenza Newton, cousin of Mexican singer Guadalupe Pineda.

Guillermo Del Toro started dating Lorenza when both were studying at the Instituto de Ciencias in Guadalajara.

Guillermo Del Toro maintains residences in Toronto and Los Angeles, and returns to Guadalajara every six weeks to visit his family.

Guillermo Del Toro owns two houses devoted exclusively to his collection of books, poster artwork and other belongings pertaining to his work.

In 2009, del Toro signed a petition that called for the release of film director Roman Polanski, who was arrested in Switzerland in relation to his 1977 charge for drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl.

Guillermo Del Toro pointed out that the villains in most of his films, such as the industrialist in Cronos, the Nazis in Hellboy, and the Francoists in Pan's Labyrinth, are united by the common attribute of authoritarianism.

Guillermo Del Toro has claimed to be horrified by the way the Catholic Church complied with Francoist Spain, down to having a character in his film quote what actual priests would say to Republican faction members in concentration camps.

Lewis, Del Toro has stated that he can no longer relate to Lewis and his work, despite having done so beforehand.

Guillermo Del Toro describes Lewis as "too Catholic" for him, despite the fact that Lewis was never a Catholic.

However, Del Toro is not entirely disparaging of Catholic Christianity, and his background continues to influence his work.

Guillermo Del Toro cited Japanese anime Doraemon as "the greatest kids series ever created".