The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures has added three industry heavyweights to its governing board, electing Broadway producing titan John Gore, blockbuster producer Gale Anne Hurd and Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro to its Board of Trustees. The trio joins the body that steers the museum’s long-term financial health and governance, with their terms taking […]
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the newly elected Board of Governors for the 2026-2027 term year. The new board is comprised of a mixture of new faces to the board, like director Guillermo del Toro and composer Kris Bowers, returning incumbents like actor Lou Diamond Phillips and executive Hannah Minghella, […]
Guillermo del Toro’s “Pan’s Labyrinth” hasn’t lost any of its power to dazzle the Cannes Film Festival over the last two decades. The fantasy movie world premiered in competition at the 2006 festival, where it earned instant acclaim and was met with a still-record holding 22-minute standing ovation. Del Toro returned to Cannes this year […]
Guillermo del Toro was awarded a BFI Fellowship, the British Film Institute’s highest honor, earlier this week in London. And to celebrate the award, the Mexican filmmaker has taken part in a series of talks and presentations across the British capital. This evening, he sat for an onstage career Q&A session with film historian and […]
Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro was awarded a BFI Fellowship last night during a ceremony in London. The filmmaker was handed the award, the British Film Institute’s highest honor, by his frequent collaborator Cate Blanchett. “For a man that has tried for 30 years to make the brutal and the beautiful sit together, I have […]
Netflix has acquired Mexico’s first stop-motion feature I Am Frankelda (Soy Frankelda), from brother filmmakers Arturo and Roy Ambriz, slating the film for release worldwide later this year. Protégés of Guillermo del Toro, whose Netflix stop-motion animation Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio won the Oscar for Best Animation in 2024, the Ambriz brothers’ film is set […]
How did Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein differ from all other cinematic predecessors? Says del Toro’s 2x Oscar nominated production designer Tamara Deverell, it’s the filmmaker’s “desire for us to do something operatic and theatrical.” Like an abstract piece of art, there’s much to absorb and get wonderfully lost in onscreen in […]
Guillermo del Toro’s career honor from the American Society of Cinematographers is … alive! The Frankenstein director will receive the group’s Board of Governors Award at the 40th anniversary ASC Awards next month. This honor is given to collaborators who champion directors of photography and elevate the visual craft at the heart of cinema. “Guillermo […]
One Battle After Another director Paul Thomas Anderson has won the DGA Awards‘ top prize — Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film — which marks a highly significant Oscar predictor. “It’s an honor, President Nolan,” he told DGA president Christopher Nolan, to loud laughter from the audience Saturday at the Beverly Hilton. This was […]