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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.
Mad Max is a 2024 Australian dystopian action film produced and directed by Guillermo del Toro from a screenplay written by George Miller, who directed the previous Mad Max films. The sixth installment in the Mad Max film series, the film disregards the events of Mad Max: Fury Road and the 2023 prequel Furiosa, instead serving as a direct sequel to Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. It stars Mel Gibson reprising his role as Max Rockastansky, with Margot Robbie, Ciarán Hinds, Malcolm McDowell and Michelle Pfeiffer joining the cast, while Roger Ward returns from the first film as Fred Macaffee. An aging Max is long retired, as the world is slowly returning to normal. However, when he learns that a familiar enemy has survived what he was left to die for, he must bring his road warrior life back and protect his daughter Jessie, (Robbie) and kill his presumed dead rival. Mad Max was released in Australia internationally on November 8th, 2024, and was released in the United States on December 28th, 2024; the film opened to the highest praise out of the Mad Max films worldwide, with praise for del Toro's direction and the performances (particularly those of Gibson, Robbie, and McDowell), as well as the action sequences, score and its concluding story to the series. It was also a commercial success, earning $529 million against a budget of $497 million.
