Del Toro was able to pay the ransom and then moved his family to America. In 1998 the director faced a major crisis when his father was kidnapped and held captive for more than two months. Guillermo del Toro married Lorenza Newton in 1986, with the couple going on to have two daughters. "We should continue doing that, when the world tells us to make it deeper." "I think the greatest thing that our art does and our industry does is erase the lines in the sand." he said. Sounding a political note in his acceptance speech for Best Director, del Toro noted that he is an immigrant, and celebrated the power of cinema for enabling people of all races and backgrounds to present stories with universal appeal. During the March 4 telecast, the film claimed four Oscar wins, including two of the top prizes of the night, for Best Picture and Best Director. There was more to come for the director, as The Shape of Water racked up a whopping 13 nominations ahead of the 2018 Academy Awards. When the orchestra music began playing during his acceptance speech, del Toro pleaded for more time to celebrate the first Golden Globe Award of his career. A sci-fi romance about a mute janitor who falls in love with a man-fish hybrid held in a government lab, The Shape of Water claimed the top prize at the Venice Film Festival and led the pack with seven nominations for the year's Golden Globes, producing a win for del Toro in the category of Best Director. In 2017, del Toro turned in one of the signature works of his career with The Shape of Water. (1976–) Award-Winning 'The Shape of Water' The work was also a critical smash, ending up on many reviewers’ year-end lists and receiving an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. It received five other Oscar nods as well, winning for art direction, cinematography and makeup. Having earned more than $80 million worldwide, Pan's Labyrinth also became one of the top-grossing foreign releases in the United States. Global Acclaim for 'Pan's Labyrinth'ĭel Toro returned to Spain and the country’s post–civil war era for his 2006 feature length film, Pan’s Labyrinth, the story of a girl forced to live with a fascist stepfather retreats into a magical, frightening world where she's revealed to be a princess, with a blurring of what might be reality versus an imaginary escape from trauma. This dynamic was also seen with the 2008 sequel Hellboy II: The Golden Army. Next up came another comic-book adaptation- Hellboy, with Perlman cast as the brawny, demonic titular character in an outing that was both action caper and comedy vehicle. ![]() Del Toro was at the helm of Blade II, starring Wesley Snipes as the famed vampire hunter in a gory, stylized action caper that grossed more than $150 million worldwide. The world of horror continued to call to del Toro in his next directing venture, though the format was of the comic-book world and also involved a return to vampires. Comic Book Fare: 'Blade II' and 'Hellboy'
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