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Gwilermo! Enthusiastic gringos call out to Guillermo del Toro outside of the Directors Guild of America where he is receiving a New Yorker Film Festival award. Wearing a dark jacket, grey pants, and military boots, he is a lesson in simplicity next to the other stars who are stepping out of their limousines all gussied up in chinchilla coats and pearls and coming over to listen to his anecdotes.
Of average height and chubby, with blue eyes that peer out from behind thick glasses, del Toro looks a bit like a younger version of the controversial US director, Michael Moore. He is, in fact, always joking about his appearance: "Look, I can't really give you any advice, except, of course, on losing weight," he said once to a corpulent man who asked him innocently about his formulas for inventing fiction.
Del Toro also jokes about the tense border relationship between the United States and Mexico, commenting that he is legal in the US but that "nobody believes me." Born in Guadalajara, Mexico, he shot quickly to stardom and is now an icon of the film industry at age 44. His first work, Cronos (1993) won him a Cannes Film Festival award in France, and the next to the last one, El laberinto del fauno [Pan's Labyrinth] (2006) garnered three Oscars and the nomination for best foreign film. His other films include Mimic (1997), Blade II (2002), El espinazo del diablo [The Devil's Backbone] (2001), Hellboy (2004), and Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008). And that's not all, because soon he will be making The Hobbit (2010) and The Hobbit II...
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