Guillermo del Toro Gómez
Born	October 9, 1964 (1964-10-09) (age 43) Guadalajara, Jalisco
Occupation	Film director, producer and screenwriter

Guillermo del Toro Gómez (born October 9, 1964 in Guadalajara, Jalisco) is an Academy Award-nominated Mexican film director. is the 282nd day of the year (283rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also Nintendo emulator: 1964 (emulator). ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Mexico. ... Coordinates: , Country State Foundation 1542 Government  - Mayor Alfonso Petersen Farah ( PAN) Area  - City 187. ... Location within Mexico Country Capital Municipalities 126 Largest City Guadalajara Government  - Governor Emilio González Márquez (PAN)  - Federal Deputies PAN: 18 PRI: 1  - Federal Senators Eva Contreras (PAN) Héctor Pérez (PAN) Ramiro Hernández (PRI) Area Ranked 6th  - State 30,534. ... The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ... A film producer creates the conditions for making movies. ... Screenwriters, scenarists, or script writers, are authors who write the screenplays from which movies and television programs are made. ... is the 282nd day of the year (283rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also Nintendo emulator: 1964 (emulator). ... Coordinates: , Country State Foundation 1542 Government  - Mayor Alfonso Petersen Farah ( PAN) Area  - City 187. ... Location within Mexico Country Capital Municipalities 126 Largest City Guadalajara Government  - Governor Emilio González Márquez (PAN)  - Federal Deputies PAN: 18 PRI: 1  - Federal Senators Eva Contreras (PAN) Héctor Pérez (PAN) Ramiro Hernández (PRI) Area Ranked 6th  - State 30,534. ... Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ... The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ...

Del Toro studied in the Instituto de Ciencias, and was raised by his Catholic grandmother. Del Toro first got involved with filmmaking when he was about eight years old. He executive produced his first feature in 1986 , at the age of 21. Before that he spent nearly 10 years as a make-up designer, and formed his own company, Necropia, in the early 80s. He also co-founded the Guadalajara-based Mexican film festival. Later on in his directing career, he formed his own production company, the Tequila Gang.

In 1998 his father was kidnapped in Mexico, which prompted del Toro to move abroad to live as an expatriate. Del Toro currently lives in Westlake Village, a bedroom community in Los Angeles. Location of Westlake Village in Los Angeles County, California Coordinates: , Country United States of America State California County Los Angeles Incorporated (city) 1981-12-11 [2] Government  - Mayor Susan McSweeney [1] Area  - City  5. ... Commuters waiting for the morning train in Maplewood, New Jersey A bedroom community, dormitory town, or commuter town is a community that is primarily residential in character, with most of its workers commuting to a nearby town or city to earn their livelihood. ... Los Angeles and L.A. redirect here. ...

He has directed a wide variety of films, from comic book adaptations (Hellboy and Blade II) to historical fantasy and horror films, two of which are set in Spain during or in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War under the authoritarian rule of Francisco Franco. These two films, El espinazo del diablo (The Devil's Backbone) and El laberinto del fauno (Pan's Labyrinth), are among his most critically acclaimed works. They also share similar settings, protagonists (young children), and themes (including the relationship between fantasy/horror and the struggle to live under authoritarian or dictatorial rule) with the 1973 Spanish film The Spirit of the Beehive, widely considered to be the finest Spanish film of the 1970s. Hellboy (also known as Super Sapiens in Malaysia) is an American supernatural thriller, directed by Mexican director Guillermo del Toro. ... Blade II is a 2002 vampire action movie starring Wesley Snipes and Kris Kristofferson. ... Not to be confused with the Spanish Civil War of 1820-1823. ... The term authoritarian is used to describe an organization or a state which enforces strong and sometimes oppressive measures against the population, generally without attempts at gaining the consent of the population. ... “Franco” redirects here. ... The Devils Backbone titled in Spanish as El Espinazo del Diablo is a 2001 Mexican/Spanish film written and directed by Guillermo del Toro, produced by Pedro Almodóvar. ... Pans Labyrinth (Spanish: El Laberinto del Fauno; literally The Labyrinth of the Faun) is an Academy Award-winning Spanish language fantasy film[2][3] written and directed by Mexican film-maker Guillermo del Toro. ... For the song by James Blunt, see 1973 (song). ... El espíritu de la colmena (The Spirit of the Beehive) is a quiet, enigmatic film featuring a very young child in the leading role. ...

Del Toro, as interviewed on WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show), lists several fascinations that have become regular features in his films: "I have a sort of a fetish for insects, clockwork, monsters, dark places, and unborn things." Del Toro's work notably frequently includes monsters. In recent interviews, he has stated that he has always been "in love with monsters. My fascination with them is almost anthropological . . . I study them, I dissect them in many of my movies: I want to know how they work, what the inside of them looks like, [and] what their sociology is." He also mentions as influences Arthur Machen, Lord Dunsany, Clark Ashton Smith and Borges. In one of his interviews^{[citation needed]} he calls himself "a lapsed Catholic - that likes Taoism," though in the same interview he also said "once a Catholic - always Catholic." WNYC (93. ... Leonard Lopate is host of the public radio talk show The Leonard Lopate Show, broadcast on WNYC[1]. He first broadcast on WKCR, the college radio station of Columbia University, where he was a student, then, later, at WBAI, before ultimately moving to WNYC. [citation needed] References ^ WNYC - Lopate - Staff... Orders Subclass Apterygota Symphypleona - globular springtails Subclass Archaeognatha (jumping bristletails) Subclass Dicondylia Monura - extinct Thysanura (common bristletails) Subclass Pterygota Diaphanopteroidea - extinct Palaeodictyoptera - extinct Megasecoptera - extinct Archodonata - extinct Ephemeroptera (mayflies) Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) Infraclass Neoptera Blattodea (cockroaches) Mantodea (mantids) Isoptera (termites) Zoraptera Grylloblattodea Dermaptera (earwigs) Plecoptera (stoneflies) Orthoptera (grasshoppers, crickets... Gear with escapment mechanism For other uses, see Clockwork (disambiguation). ... This article is about monsters as a kind of legendary creature. ... This article is about monsters as a kind of legendary creature. ... Arthur Machen (March 3, 1863 – December 15th, 1947) was a leading Welsh-born author of the 1890s. ... Best known as Lord Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (July 24, 1878–October 25, 1957) was an Irish writer and dramatist notable for his work in fantasy and horror. ... Clark Ashton Smith (January 13, 1893-August 14, 1961) was a poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories. ... Borges redirects here. ... Taoism (or Daoism) is the English name referring to a variety of related Chinese philosophical traditions and concepts. ...

He is also close friends with two other prominent and critically praised Mexican filmmakers, Alfonso Cuarón and Alejandro González Iñárritu. The three often influence each other's directorial decisions, have been interviewed together by Charlie Rose, and Cuarón was one of the producers of Pan's Labyrinth. All three received Oscar nominations when the 2006 Academy Award nominations were unveiled in January 2007 - del Toro for his original screenplay for Pan's Labyrinth (the film itself received 6 nominations, including Best Foreign Language Film), Cuarón for directing Children of Men and Iñárritu for producing and directing Babel. Alfonso Cuarón Orozco (born November 28, 1961 in Mexico City) is an Academy Award-nominated Mexican film director, screenwriter and producer. ... Alejandro González Iñárritu (IPA: ), born August 15, 1963, to Hector González Gama and Luz María Iñárritu in Mexico City, is an Academy Award-nominated Mexican film director. ... Charlie Rose Charles Peete Rose Jr. ... Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ... Pans Labyrinth (Spanish: El Laberinto del Fauno; literally The Labyrinth of the Faun) is an Academy Award-winning Spanish language fantasy film[2][3] written and directed by Mexican film-maker Guillermo del Toro. ... Children of Men is a 2006 dystopian science fiction film co-written and directed by Alfonso Cuarón. ... For other uses, see Babel (disambiguation). ...

Guillermo has said that one of his future projects will be directing on The Coffin based on the critically praised graphic novel written byPhil Hester, and drawn byMike Huddleston. He'll be directing Deadman, The Witches, a story adaption by Roald Dahl, The Champions which the film is based on a British television series and At the Mountains of Madness. Phil Hester Phillip Doyce Hester (born April 30, 1955) is the current CTO of semiconductor company Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. ... Roald Dahl (IPA: ) (13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) was a British novelist, short story author and screenwriter of Norwegian parentage, famous as a writer for both children and adults. ...

Del Toro has expressed interest in adapting Frankenstein as a faithful "Miltonian tragedy". He has read a draft by Frank Darabont which he considered near perfect.^[1] He'll also be directing Tarzan as he says "I'd love to create a new version that is still a family movie, but as edgy as I can make it," Del Toro said. "There are strong themes of survival of a defenseless child left behind in the most hostile environment." This article is about the 1818 novel. ... Frank Darabont (born on January 28, 1959) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. ...

Director filmography

• Doña Lupe (1985)
• Geometria (1987)
• Cronos (1993)
• Mimic (1997)
• El espinazo del diablo (2001)
• Blade II (2002)
• Hellboy (2004)
• El laberinto del fauno (Pan's Labyrinth) (2006)
• Hellboy 2: The Golden Army (2008)
• 3993 (2009)
• The Champions (2009)
• At the Mountains of Madness (2010)
• The Witches (TBA)
• ATOM (TBA)
• Coffin (TBA)
• Deadman (TBA)
• Tarzan (TBA)
• Frankanstine (TBA)

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Producer filmography

• El Orfanato (The Orphanage) (2007)
• Mnemovore (TBA)
• Runoff (TBA)
• Splice
• The Call of the Sea (TBA)
• The Changeling (TBA)
• While She Was Out (TBA)

The Orphanage (Spanish title: El Orfanato) is an upcoming 2007 horror film. ... The Changeling is a 1980 Canadian film directed by Peter Medak and starring George C. Scott and Trish Van Devere. ...

References

Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... is the 299th day of the year (300th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... is the 300th day of the year (301st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

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Guillermo del Toro

• Guillermo del Toro at the Internet Movie Database
• Del Toro Films Fansite
• Premiere Magazine: Inside Del Toro's Sketchbook
• Angels and Insects: The Cinematic Spawn of Guillermo Del Toro
• GreenCine Daily interview
• Audio Interviews
• Letras Libres essay on El Laberinto del Fauno (in Spanish)