Guillermo del Toro
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10/08/1964
Guadalajara, Mexico |
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| Sci-fi horror movie Mimic, his first English-language feature, was nominated for Best Film at the 1997 Catalonian International Film Festival. |
| Father was kidnapped in 1997 and held for several months, then freed once ransom was paid. |
| Made directorial debut on the late-'80s Mexican sci-fi/horror anthology A Hora Marcada. |
| Made his feature-film directing debut with the 1993 vampire drama Cronos, which won the First Prize at the Cannes Film Festival's International Critics Week, the Mexican Academy Awards' Golden |
| Taught film language and worked as coordinator of the student film workshop at Mexico's University of Guadalajara from 1986-92. |
| Formed his own effects company after taking the "Advanced Makeup Course" from legendary makeup and special-effects artist Dick Smith (The Exorcist, Amadeus). |
