Guillermo Del Toro is a renowned Mexican screenwriter, director and screenwriter. Winner of the Golden Globe and two Oscars. He gained the greatest fame thanks to the film "Pan's Labyrinth", which was released in 2006.
Biography
In October 1964, the future genius of mysticism and fantasy, Guillermo Del Toro, was born in a small Mexican town. From early childhood, the boy was brought up by his grandmother. She was a staunch Catholic and by all means instilled in her grandson religious convictions. At her insistence, the boy did not go to a regular school, but to a Catholic seminary.
Guillermo himself had a great interest in everything paranormal and mystical. He enjoyed reading mystical stories and watching horror films. One of Guillermo's favorite childhood films is Night of the Living Dead.
After graduating from school, the future director entered the local university, which he later graduated with honors. Along the way, he learned the skill of makeup from one of the masters of horror, Dick Smith.
Career
After university, Del Toro worked for about 10 years as a make-up artist, and later created his own special effects studio. It was his work that was used in the horror comedy series Tales from the Crypt.
For the first time as a producer, he acted in 1986, in one of the Mexican TV series. He also made several short films that were not very popular. The first serious work took place only in 1993. Guillermo became director and screenwriter at the same time in the film "Chronos". The film tells about a device that grants immortality to its owner. The budget of the painting was a huge two million dollars at that time. Del Toro received a Mercedes-Benz award at the Cannes Film Festival.
In 2007, for the film Pan's Labyrinth, the famous director received the Goya Prize, a Spanish award. Before receiving the most prestigious award in cinema, Del Toro directed 17 films and produced 19 films. In 2017, the film "The Shape of Water" was released for which Guillermo received two Oscars at once: "For Best Film" and "For Director's Work".
Recently, the genius of mysticism has taken a great interest in computer games, he writes scripts and develops images for characters. After the resounding success of The Forms of Water, in 2018 the director began to collaborate with the worldwide popular Netflix company, for which he began to develop a plot for a horror series. The planned film product received the working title "Ten o'clock after midnight."
Personal life
Guillermo Del Toro was married to Lorenza Newton from 1986 to 2017. During this time, the couple raised and raised two daughters - Mariana and Marisa. The famous director has an account on the popular social network "Instagram", although he does not deal with it at all, for the entire time of its existence only one post was published there.
