Guillermo del Toro Gómez (Guadalajara, Jalisco; October 9, 1964) is a Mexican director, screenwriter, producer and novelist, awarded the Goya Prize and several times with the Ariel Prize. In 2018 he won the Golden Globe as best director for his film The Shape of Water. A month later he was also awarded as Best Director and Best Film in the 90th edition of the Oscar Awards for it.

He began filming in Mexico as a teenager, when he was at the Institute of Sciences, in the city of Guadalajara. He spent ten years in makeup design and formed his own company, Necropia, before he could be the executive producer of his first film at age 21. He was co-founder of the Guadalajara Film Festival and created the production company Tequila Gang.