Born in Guadalajara, Mexico, Guillermo del Toro is among the most creative and visionary artists of his generation. His distinctive style is showcased through his work as a filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, and author. 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 after beginning his career as a special effects makeup artist on Mexican feature films. The film premiered at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Mercedes-Benz Award and went on to garner over 20 international awards, including nine Ariels in Mexico.Since then, Del Toro has earned international acclaim as the director, writer, and producer of award-winning films, including eight Oscars® for The Shape of Water, Pan’s Labyrinth, Pinocchio, and Frankenstein. At the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, Guillermo celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Pan’s Labyrinth premiere. The film will be re-released in theaters worldwide in 4K and 3D. With Chuck Hogan, he is also the co-author of The Strain vampire novels, which became a hit series for FX Networks, and the recent The Boy in the Iron Box, first published as an ebook by Amazon and soon to be a Netflix motion picture. Insight Editions has published making-of and art-of books for six of his films, along with the lavishly illustrated Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities, which explores his creative work, his libraries and collections, and his own illustrated notebooks. The book inspired the Los Angeles County Museum of Art exhibition Guillermo del Toro: At Home with Monsters, which also ran at the Minneapolis Institute of Art and Toronto’s Art Gallery of Ontario, as well as spawning a related exhibition in his hometown of Guadalajara. Special Guests 2026 Carlos Reygadas James Gray Gael García Bernal Alfonso Cuarón Special Guests in Other Editions Kleber Mendonça Filho Charlie Kaufman Oliver Laxe Robin Campillo Lucrecia Martel Juliette Binoche Francis Ford Coppola Ira Sachs Liv Tyler Alexander Payne James Ivory Ava DuVernay Leos Carax Kathleen Kennedy Jodie Foster James Ivory Luis Mandoki Jerry Schatzberg Maribel Verdú Laurent Cantet Frank Marshall Claire Denis Barry Jenkins Ciro Guerra en Rosalie Varda J. M. Coetzee Luc Dardenne Robert Redford Alfonso Cuarón Damien Chazelle Paul Weitz Patrice Leconte Julie Bertuccelli Carol Littleton John Bailey Olivier Assayas Lynne Ramsay Al Gore Michel Hazanavicius Bob Rafelson Fred Kelemen Aaron Eckhart Casey Affleck Giada Colagrande Audrey Tautou Isabelle Huppert Tim Roth Rodrigo García Peter Greenaway Pawel Pawlikowski Pierre Rissient Amos Gitai Juliette Binoche Edward James Olmos Robert Rodriguez John Sayles Alejandro Jodorowsky Danny Trejo Bruno Dumont Quentin Tarantino Pablo Larraín José María Prado Whit Stillman Dieter Kosslick Geraldine Chaplin Seifollah Samadian Gregory Nava Sally Potter Abbas Kiarostami Damián Alcázar Demián Bichir Elena Anaya Thierry Frémaux Marisa Paredes Michel Gondry Volker Schlöndorff Luis Valdez Béla Tarr Lucrecia Martel Javier Bardem Edgar Ramírez Fernando Trueba Doris Dörrie Serge Bromberg Terry Gilliam Julio Alemán Kelly Reichardt Jennifer Lawrence Steven Soderbergh Michael Nyman Nicolas Philibert Todd Haynes Stephen Frears Héctor Babenco Gael García Bernal Carlos Reygadas Alejandro González Iñárritu Cristian Mungiu Bertrand Tavernier Arthur Penn Jean-Claude Carrière Guillermo del Toro Mike Hodges Diego Luna Tommy Lee Jones Valeria Sarmiento Raúl Ruiz Gus Van Sant Manoel De Oliveira Fernando Vallejo Julia Ormond Salma Hayek Werner Herzog Barbet Schroeder Barbet Schroeder Guillermo del Toro Alfonso Cuarón Casey Affleck Barbet Schroeder Guillermo del Toro Alfonso Cuarón Casey Affleck Barbet Schroeder Guillermo del Toro Alfonso Cuarón Casey Affleck
Born in Guadalajara, Mexico, Guillermo del Toro is among the most creative and visionary artists of his generation. His distinctive style is showcased through his work as a filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, and author. 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 after beginning his career as a special effects makeup artist on Mexican feature films. The film premiered at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Mercedes-Benz Award and went on to garner over 20 international awards, including nine Ariels in Mexico.Since then, Del Toro has earned international acclaim as the director, writer, and producer of award-winning films, including eight Oscars® for The Shape of Water, Pan’s Labyrinth, Pinocchio, and Frankenstein. At the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, Guillermo celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Pan’s Labyrinth premiere. The film will be re-released in theaters worldwide in 4K and 3D. With Chuck Hogan, he is also the co-author of The Strain vampire novels, which became a hit series for FX Networks, and the recent The Boy in the Iron Box, first published as an ebook by Amazon and soon to be a Netflix motion picture. Insight Editions has published making-of and art-of books for six of his films, along with the lavishly illustrated Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities, which explores his creative work, his libraries and collections, and his own illustrated notebooks. The book inspired the Los Angeles County Museum of Art exhibition Guillermo del Toro: At Home with Monsters, which also ran at the Minneapolis Institute of Art and Toronto’s Art Gallery of Ontario, as well as spawning a related exhibition in his hometown of Guadalajara.
