Guillermo del Toro Age, Wife, Family, Biography & More

Some Lesser Known Facts About Guillermo del Toro

• Does Guillermo del Toro smoke?: Not Known

• Does Guillermo del Toro drink alcohol?: Yes

• Guillermo was born into an upper-class family with strong Catholic belief.

• At the age of 8, he started experimenting with his father’s motion picture camera.

• He developed an interest in filmmaking during his high school, where he used to make short films. 

• After watching the horror film ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ (1974), he became a vegetarian for around 4 years, after which he again became a non-vegetarian.

• In the mid-1980s, he founded his own effects company called ‘Necropia.’

• As he was born in Jalisco, Mexico, where ‘Patrón’ (a brand of tequila products by the Patrón Spirits Company) started, and that’s why he once collaborated with Patrón Tequila.

• He is such a bookworm and gothic art lover that he bought an extra-house called “Bleak House” to showcase his huge collection of around 600 pieces of art and around 9,000 books.

• He considers the Oscar-winning make-up artist, Dick Smith as his mentor as he taught him the art of special effects make-up. 

• He is the co-founder of the Guadalajara International Film Festival, a week-long film festival held each March in Guadalajara since 1986. 

• In 2007, he was ranked #37 on Entertainment Weekly’s list of “The 50 Smartest People in Hollywood.”

• On March 4, 2017, at the 90th annual Academy Awards, he won the Best Director and Best Picture award for his romantic fantasy drama film ‘The Shape of Water’ (2017).