Directing
Guillermo del Toro
Guillermo del Toro Gómez (Spanish: [ɡiˈʝeɾmo ðelˈtoɾo]; born 9 October 1964) is a Mexican filmmaker, author, and artist. His work has been characterized by a strong connection to fairy tales, gothicism, and horror, often blending the genres to infuse visual or poetic beauty into the grotesque. He has had a lifelong fascination with monsters, which he considers symbols of great power. He is known for pioneering dark fantasy in the film industry and using insectile and religious imagery, his themes of Catholicism, and celebrating imperfection, underworld motifs, practical special effects, and dominant amber lighting. Throughout his career, del Toro has shifted between Spanish-language films—such as Cronos (1993), The Devil's Backbone (2001), and Pan's Labyrinth (2006)—and English-language 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), Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2010), The Hobbit film series (2012–2014), 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 Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities, featuring a collection of classical horror stories. With Chuck Hogan, he co-authored The Strain trilogy of novels (2009–2011), which was later adapted into a comic book series (2011–15) and a live-action television series (2014–17). With DreamWorks Animation and Netflix, he created the animated franchise Tales of Arcadia, which includes the series Trollhunters (2016–18), 3Below (2018–19), and Wizards (2020) and the sequel film Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans (2021). Del Toro is close friends with fellow Mexican filmmakers Alfonso Cuarón and Alejandro G. Iñárritu, collectively known as "The Three Amigos of Mexican Cinema". He has received several awards, including three Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Daytime Emmy Award, and a Golden Lion. He was included in Time magazine's 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.
Filmography
The Thing Expanded
Film · 2026
THE ORIGIN OF ULTRAMAN
Film · 2026
The Anatomy Lesson: Director’s Cut
Film · 2026
Surrealistic Nightmares: An In-Depth Look at Walloon Horror Cinema
Film · 2025
Mollusk
Film · 2025
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
Film · 2025
Netflix Tudum 2025
Film · 2025
Sangre del Toro
Film · 2025
It’s a Mad Max World
Film · 2025
The Hanging of Stuart Cornfeld
Film · 2025
Frankenstein: The Anatomy Lesson
Film · 2025
Avatar: A New Era - Special Edition of 20/20
Film · 2025
Dario Argento: Panico
Film · 2024
Leonardo da Vinci
Series · 2024
Hideo Kojima: Connecting Worlds
Film · 2023
George Pal: Un Marciano De Hollywood En Argentina
Film · 2023
Temple of Film: 100 Years of the Egyptian Theatre
Film · 2023
Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story
Film · 2022
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema
Film · 2022
Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters
Film · 2022
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
Series · 2022
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
Film · 2021
Directors on Directors
Series · 2021
I'm No Longer Here: A Discussion with Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón
Film · 2020
Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business
Film · 2020
The House Is Alive: Constructing 'Crimson Peak'
Film · 2019
Love, Antosha
Film · 2019
Making Apes: The Artists Who Changed Film
Film · 2019
Elvis Goes There
Series · 2019
Light in the Darkness: The Impact of Night of The Living Dead
Film · 2018
Guillermo del Toro: Un director y su Oscar
Film · 2018
Bloody And Groovy Baby! A Tribute to Sam Raimi's Evil Dead 2
Film · 2018
Barry
Series · 2018
James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction
Series · 2018
78/52
Film · 2017
Five Came Back
Film · 2017
When Romero Met Del Toro
Film · 2017
Five Came Back
Series · 2017
The Giant's Dream: The Making of the Iron Giant
Film · 2016
I Remember Crimson Peak
Film · 2016
The Light and Dark of Crimson Peak
Film · 2016
A Living Thing
Film · 2016
Hand Tailored Gothic
Film · 2016
Crimson Phantoms
Film · 2016
Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia
Series · 2016
Metal Gear Solid: Legacy
Film · 2015
Extraordinary Tales
Film · 2015
Creature Designers: The Frankenstein Complex
Film · 2015
The First Hundred Feet, the Last Hundred Feet
Film · 2015
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Series · 2015
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Series · 2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Series · 2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Series · 2015
Lennon or McCartney
Film · 2014
The Book of Life
Film · 2014
Guillermo del Toro Interviews Paul Williams
Film · 2014
The Director's Chair
Series · 2014
The Game Awards
Series · 2014
Necessary Evil: Super-Villains of DC Comics
Film · 2013
Drew: The Man Behind the Poster
Film · 2013
Spanish Gothic
Film · 2013
The Digital Artistry of Pacific Rim
Film · 2013
The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy
Film · 2013
Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan
Film · 2012
Men in Suits
Film · 2012
El Santos vs la Tetona Mendoza
Film · 2012
Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss
Film · 2012
Zombie Lover
Film · 2011
Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope
Film · 2011
Puss in Boots
Film · 2011
Reclaiming 'Mimic'
Film · 2011
A Leap in Evolution: The Creatures of 'Mimic'
Film · 2011
Back Into the Tunnels: The Making of 'Mimic'
Film · 2011
Bob Burns' Hollywood Haloween
Film · 2011
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
Film · 2010
Fasten Your Seatbelt: The Thrilling Art of Alfred Hitchcock
Film · 2009
The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style
Film · 2009
North by Northwest: One for the Ages
Film · 2009
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
Film · 2008
Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown
Film · 2008
Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock
Film · 2008
El último truco
Film · 2008
Edith Head: Dressing the Master's Movies
Film · 2008
Bernard Herrmann: Hitchcock's Maestro
Film · 2008
Starz Inside: Comic Books Unbound
Film · 2008
Hellboy: In Service of the Demon
Film · 2008
Saul Bass: Title Champ
Film · 2008
In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy
Film · 2008
Drew Struzan: An Appreciation of An Artist
Film · 2008
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Film · 2008
Quantum of Solace
Film · 2008
Partners in Crime: Hitchcock's Collaborators
Film · 2008
07 Spaceys
Film · 2007
Nexus Generation: Fans & Filmmakers
Film · 2007
Deck-A-Rep: The True Nature of Rick Deckard
Film · 2007
Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner
Film · 2007
The Power of Myth
Film · 2007
Pan and the Fairies
Film · 2007
The Melody Echoes the Fairy Tale
Film · 2007
The Color and the Shape
Film · 2007
Diary of the Dead
Film · 2007
Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy
Film · 2005
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Series · 2005
Hellboy: The Seeds of Creation
Film · 2004
Que es un Fantasma?: The Making of 'The Devil's Backbone'
Film · 2004
Hellboy
Film · 2004
Que es un fantasma?
Film · 2004
Noin
Film · 2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Series · 2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Series · 2003
Masters of Horror
Film · 2002
The Blood Pact: The Making of 'Blade II'
Film · 2002
HypaSpace
Series · 2002
The Devil's Backbone: Behind the Scenes
Film · 2001
Bullfighter
Film · 2000
Futurama
Series · 1999
Cronos
Film · 1993
The Simpsons
Series · 1989
The Oscars
Series · 1953
Golden Globe Awards
Series · 1944
The Fall: Part I
Film
The Fall: Part II
Film