The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce has announced that Guillermo del Toro will be honored with the 2,669th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Tuesday, August 6, 2019 at 11:30 a.m. PST. The star will be dedicated in the category of Motion Pictures at 6918 Hollywood Boulevard in front of The Line Store.
Helping Emcee Rana Ghadban, President & CEO of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, to unveil the star will be director J.J. Abrams and singer/songwriter Lana Del Rey.
Born in Guadalajara, Mexico, 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 working as a special effects makeup artist. The film premiered at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Mercedes-Benz Award. It also won over 20 international awards and eight Ariel Awards from the Mexican Academy of Film, including Best Director, Best Screenplay, and the Golden Ariel.
Del Toro’s latest producing project is the CBS Films, eOne, and Lionsgate feature Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, based on the books by Alvin Schwartz. André Øvredal directed the film which will be released in theaters everywhere August 9, 2019.
Del Toro is also producing, co-writing, and co-directing his stop motion adaptation of Pinocchio for Netflix Animation. His subsequent films include, Mimic, The Devil’s Backbone, Blade II, Hellboy, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Pacific Rim, and Crimson Peak. The filmmaker earned international acclaim as the director, writer, and producer of the 2006 fantasy drama Pan’s Labyrinth. He was honored with an Oscar® nomination for his original screenplay for the film. The film won Academy Awards® for Art Direction, Cinematography, and Makeup. In all, the film garnered more than 40 international awards and appeared on more than 35 critics’ lists of the year’s best films. His most recent film, the contemporary fairy tale The Shape of Water, for Fox Searchlight, premiered at the 2017 Venice Film Festival, where it won the Golden Lion for Best Picture. It went on to win Golden Globes, BAFTAs, DGA, PGA and Academy Awards®, including Oscars for Best Picture, Best Direction, Best Score and Best Production Design.
With novelist Chuck Hogan, del Toro co-authored the vampire horror trilogy The Strain and created FX Networks’ series based on novels. Currently, he is also developing a series based on Naoki Urasawa’s acclaimed manga series Monster for Sony Television. He will also produce the horror anthology Guillermo del Toro’s 10 After Midnight for Netflix Television.
Del Toro is on the Board of Directors of The Hero Initiative, which creates a financial safety net for comic creators who may need emergency medical aid, financial support for essentials of life, and an avenue back into paying work. Since inception, the Hero Initiative has been fortunate enough to benefit creators with more than $1 million worth of much-needed aid.
The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce encourages fans who are unable to attend to watch the event exclusively on www.walkoffame.com.
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