Oscar Directors: Del Toro, Guillermo–Vision, Sensibility (100 Best Directors)

Few filmmakers facilitate the transportation into another world and experiencing it in immersive mode more than Mexican-born Guillermo del Toro.

He’s a world-builder with dazzling design, blessed with endless imagination.

His first feature, Cronos, promised a unique cinematic vision and he’s spent the last decades fulfilling that promise.

Wide range: From the dark fairytale world in Pan’s Labyrint (by far his best film to date) to fables like the Oscar winning Shape of Water to Animation Pinocchio to the techno-power of Pacific Rim, or the gothic pageantry of Crimson Peak.

Here is a director whose versatility knows no bounds.