Guillermo del Toro

Guillermo del Toro earned international acclaim as the director, writer and producer of the 2006 fantasy drama "Pan's Labyrinth." Del Toro was honored with an Oscar® nomination for his original screenplay for the film, which received five more Oscar® nominations, including Best Foreign Language Film, and won Academy Awards® for Art Direction, Cinematography and Makeup. In all, the film garnered more than 40 international awards, appeared on more than 35 critics' lists of the year's best films, and remains the top-grossing Spanish-language film of all time in the United States.

Del Toro first gained worldwide recognition for the 1993 Mexican-American co-production "Cronos," a supernatural horror film, which he directed from his own screenplay. The film premiered at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Mercedes Benz Award. It also won over twenty International awards, including eight Ariel Awards from the Mexican Academy of Film, including Best Director, Best Screenplay and the Golden Ariel.

He then directed and co-wrote the supernatural thriller "The Devil's Backbone," which, along with "Cronos" has appeared repeatedly in Top Ten lists of best genre films of all times. In 2004, del Toro directed and co-wrote the action adventure sci-fi thriller "Hellboy," starring Ron Perlman in the title role. Four years later, he wrote and directed the hit sequel, "Hellboy II: The Golden Army." Among his other film credits, del Toro co-wrote and produced the gothic horror film "Don't be Afraid of the Dark," and served as an executive producer on the sci-fi horror thriller "Splice" and the supernatural thriller "The Orphanage," which became the highest-grossing local language film in Spain's history.

In addition, he partnered with fellow Mexican directors Alfonso Cuarón and Alejandro González Iñárritu to produce "Rudo Y Cursi," directed by Carlos Cuarón, and "Biutiful," written and directed by Iñárritu. On the animation front, del Toro was an executive producer on the films "Kung Fu Panda 2," "Puss in Boots" and "Rise of the Guardians." Del Toro more recently executive produced the world-wide horror hit "Mama," starring Jessica Chastain. Del Toro has also turned his attention to publishing. With novelist Chuck Hogan, he co-authored the horror novel The Strain, which was published in June 2009 by William Morrow. They have since collaborated on the books The Fall and The Night Eternal. All three books debuted as The New York Times top ten bestsellers.

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