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Guillermo del Toro (born October 9, 1964 in Guadalajara, Jalisco) is an Academy Award-nominated Mexican film director.

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. His religious beliefs are hard to define. In one of his interviews he calls himself "a lapsed Catholic - that likes Taoism." In the same interview he also said "once a Catholic - always Catholic."

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.

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 Fascist dictatorship 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 Fascist or dictatorial rule) with the 1973 Spanish film The Spirit of the Beehive, widely considered to be the finest Spanish film of the 1970s.

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James McAvoy and Tom Cruise Consider Trip to 'Mountains of Madness'

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