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Guillermo del Toro

Index Guillermo del Toro

Guillermo del Toro Gómez (born October 9, 1964) is a Mexican filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, author and former special effects makeup artist. [1]

190 relations: Academy Award for Best Director, Academy Award for Best Picture, Academy Awards, Action film, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Alexandre Desplat, Alfonso Cuarón, Alfred Hitchcock, Alien (creature in Alien franchise), Antoine Augustin Calmet, Asteroids (video game), Atheism, Author, Authoritarianism, B movie, Bauer Media Group, Belén Rueda, Blade II, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Brazil (1985 film), Burn Gorman, Business magnate, C. S. Lewis, Catholic Church, Cha Cha Cha Films, Charles Dickens, Charlie Hunnam, Charlie Rose, Chuck Hogan, Cinema of Mexico, Comic book, Condé Nast, Cosmology of Kyoto, Crimson Peak, Cronos (film), Cult following, D23 (Disney), Dan Laustsen, Daniel Kraus (author), David Bradley (actor), Del Toro (surname), Dick Smith (make-up artist), Diego Luna, Doña Lupe, Doug Jones (actor), DreamWorks Animation, Emmanuel Lubezki, Empire (film magazine), Fairy tale, Fantasy, ..., Federico Luppi, Fernando Velázquez (composer), Film producer, Filmmaking, Found footage (film technique), Francisco Franco, Francoist Spain, Frankenstein's monster, Freaks, FX (TV channel), Gadget Invention, Travel, & Adventure, Galaga, Gómez, Geometria (film), Gill-man, Godzilla, Golden Lion, Gothic fiction, Guadalajara, Guadalajara International Film Festival, Guadalupe Pineda, Guillermo del Toro's unrealized projects, Guillermo Navarro, Harvey Weinstein, Hellboy (2004 film), Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Hideo Kojima, Horror fiction, Horror film, Ico, Io9, J. Miles Dale, J. R. R. Tolkien, Jack the Ripper, Jalisco, James Cameron, Javier Botet, Javier Navarrete, Jessica Chastain, John Gilroy (film editor), John Hurt, Jonathan Hyde, Kaiju, Karel Roden, La hora marcada, Ladislav Beran, Lawrence Gordon (producer), Leslie Hope, Liberalism, List of awards and nominations received by Guillermo del Toro, Lloyd Levin, Los Angeles, Luis Buñuel, Luke Goss, Make-up artist, Marco Beltrami, Matthew Robbins (screenwriter), Mecha, Mexico, Mia Wasikowska, Michael Shannon, Mike Richardson (publisher), Mimic (film), Minneapolis Institute of Art, Mirada Studios, Miramax, Monster, Montague Summers, Motion Theory (company), Nazism, Netflix, Night Zero (The Strain), Norman Reedus, Nosferatu, Octavia Spencer, P.T. (video game), Pacific Rim (film), Pacific Rim Uprising, Pan's Labyrinth, Peter Jackson, Planet of the Apes, Practical effect, Ramin Djawadi, Reddit, Republican faction (Spanish Civil War), Roald Dahl, Robert Maillet, Robert Zemeckis, Ron Perlman, Rudo y Cursi, Sally Hawkins, Santiago Segura, Science fiction, Screen Anarchy, Screenwriter, Shadow of the Colossus, Sidney Wolinsky, Sitges Film Festival, Spanish Civil War, Special effect, Super 8 film, Tales of Arcadia, The Devil's Backbone, The Exorcist (film), The Fall (del Toro and Hogan novel), The Hobbit, The Hobbit (film series), The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, The Hollywood Reporter, The New Yorker, The Night Eternal, The Omen, The Scotsman, The Shape of Water, The Shining (film), The Spirit of the Beehive, The Strain, The Strain (franchise), The Strain (TV series), The Thing (1982 film), The Witches (novel), Thomas Tull, Time (magazine), Tom Hiddleston, Toronto, Trailers from Hell, Travis Beacham, Trollhunters, Twitter, University of Guadalajara, Vanity Fair (magazine), Variety (magazine), Web series, Wilkie Collins, YouTube, 2015 Cannes Film Festival, 70th Academy Awards, 74th Venice International Film Festival. Expand index (140 more) »

Academy Award for Best Director

The Academy Award for Best Director (officially known as the Academy Award for Best Directing) is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Award for Best Picture

The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards presented annually since the awards debuted in 1929, by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.

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Action film

Action film is a film genre in which the protagonist or protagonists are thrust into a series of challenges that typically include violence, extended fighting, physical feats, and frantic chases.

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Alejandro González Iñárritu

Alejandro González Iñárritu (credited since 2014 as Alejandro G. Iñárritu; born August 15, 1963) is a Mexican film director, producer, and screenwriter.

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Alexandre Desplat

Alexandre Michel Gérard Desplat (born 23 August 1961) is a French-Greek film composer.

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Alfonso Cuarón

Alfonso Cuarón Orozco (born 28 November 1961) is a Mexican film director, screenwriter, producer, and editor.

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Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director and producer, widely regarded as one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema.

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Alien (creature in Alien franchise)

The "Alien" (colloquial: "Xenomorph XX121"; binomial: Internecivus raptus Alien: The Weyland-Yutani Report) is a fictional endoparasitoid extraterrestrial species that is the eponymous antagonist of the ''Alien'' film series.

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Antoine Augustin Calmet

Antoine Augustin Calmet, O.S.B. (26 February 167225 October 1757), a French Benedictine monk, was born at Ménil-la-Horgne, then in the Duchy of Bar, part of the Holy Roman Empire (now the French department of Meuse, located in the region of Lorraine).

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Asteroids (video game)

Asteroids is an arcade space shooter released in November 1979 by Atari, Inc. and designed by Lyle Rains, Ed Logg, and Dominic Walsh.

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Atheism

Atheism is, in the broadest sense, the absence of belief in the existence of deities.

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Author

An author is the creator or originator of any written work such as a book or play, and is thus also a writer.

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Authoritarianism

Authoritarianism is a form of government characterized by strong central power and limited political freedoms.

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B movie

A B movie or B film is a low-budget commercial movie, but not an arthouse film.

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Bauer Media Group

Bauer Media Group is a European-based media company, headquartered in Hamburg, Germany that manages a portfolio of more than 600 magazines, over 400 digital products and 50 radio and TV stations around the world.

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Belén Rueda

María Belén Rueda García-Porrero (born 16 March 1965) is a Spanish actress.

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Blade II

Blade II is a 2002 American superhero film based on the fictional character of the same name from Marvel Comics.

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Bram Stoker's Dracula

Bram Stoker's Dracula is a 1992 American gothic horror film directed and produced by Francis Ford Coppola, based on the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker.

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Brazil (1985 film)

Brazil is a 1985 dystopian science fiction film directed by Terry Gilliam and written by Gilliam, Charles McKeown, and Tom Stoppard.

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Burn Gorman

Burn Hugh GormanHerman, Sarah:, Torchwood Magazine (August 2008): page 60.

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Business magnate

A business magnate (formally industrialist) refers to an entrepreneur of great influence, importance, or standing in a particular enterprise or field of business.

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C. S. Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, broadcaster, lecturer, and Christian apologist.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Cha Cha Cha Films

Cha Cha Cha Films (Cha Cha Chá Producciones) is a film production company founded by Alfonso Cuarón, Alejandro González Iñárritu and Guillermo del Toro.

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic.

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Charlie Hunnam

Charles Matthew Hunnam (born 10 April 1980) is an English actor.

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Charlie Rose

Charles Peete Rose Jr. (born January 5, 1942) is an American television journalist and former talk show host.

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Chuck Hogan

Charles Patrick Hogan (born August 4, 1967) is an American novelist, screenwriter, and television producer.

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Cinema of Mexico

The history of Mexican cinema goes back to the ending of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, when several enthusiasts of the new medium documented historical events – most particularly the Mexican Revolution – and produced some movies that have only recently been rediscovered.

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Comic book

A comic book or comicbook, also called comic magazine or simply comic, is a publication that consists of comic art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes.

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Condé Nast

Condé Nast Inc. is an American mass media company founded in 1909 by Condé Montrose Nast, based at One World Trade Center and owned by Advance Publications.

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Cosmology of Kyoto

Cosmology of Kyoto is a visual novel adventure game developed by Softedge and published by Yano Electric.

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Crimson Peak

Crimson Peak is a 2015 American gothic romance film directed, co-produced and co-written by Guillermo del Toro, co-produced by Callum Greene, Jon Jashni and Thomas Tull and co-written by Matthew Robbins.

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Cronos (film)

Cronos is a 1993 Mexican horror drama film written and directed by Guillermo del Toro, starring veteran Argentinean actor Federico Luppi and American actor Ron Perlman.

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Cult following

A cult following is a group of fans who are highly dedicated to a work of culture, often referred to as a cult classic.

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D23 (Disney)

D23 (full name D23: The Official Disney Fan Club) is the official fan club for The Walt Disney Company.

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Dan Laustsen

Dan Laustsen (born June 15, 1954) is a Danish cinematographer.

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Daniel Kraus (author)

Daniel Kraus is an American author.

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David Bradley (actor)

David John Bradley (born 17 April 1942) is an English actor.

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Del Toro (surname)

Del Toro (Of the Bull in English) is a surname first found in the Castilian province of Zamora in Spain, dating back to the sixteenth century.

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Dick Smith (make-up artist)

Richard Emerson Smith (June 26, 1922 – July 30, 2014) was an American special make-up effects artist, (nicknamed "The Godfather of Make-Up")Fowler, Brandi; Marquina, Sierra (November 13, 2011).

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Diego Luna

Diego Luna Alexander (born 29 December 1979) is a Mexican actor, director and producer.

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Doña Lupe

Doña Lupe is a 1985 short horror film written and directed by Guillermo del Toro.

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Doug Jones (actor)

Doug Jones (born May 24, 1960) is an American actor, contortionist, and mime.

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DreamWorks Animation

DreamWorks Animation, LLC (more commonly known as DreamWorks Animation and DreamWorks Animation SKG, or simply DreamWorks) is an American animation studio that is a subsidiary of Universal Pictures.

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Emmanuel Lubezki

Emmanuel Lubezki Morgenstern, A.S.C., A.M.C. (born 30 November, 1964) is a Mexican cinematographer.

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Empire (film magazine)

Empire is a British film magazine published monthly by Bauer Consumer Media of Hamburg based Bauer Media Group.

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Fairy tale

A fairy tale, wonder tale, magic tale, or Märchen is folklore genre that takes the form of a short story that typically features entities such as dwarfs, dragons, elves, fairies, giants, gnomes, goblins, griffins, mermaids, talking animals, trolls, unicorns, or witches, and usually magic or enchantments.

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Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction set in a fictional universe, often without any locations, events, or people referencing the real world.

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Federico Luppi

Federico Luppi (February 23, 1936 – October 20, 2017) was an Argentine-Spanish film, TV, radio and theatre actor.

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Fernando Velázquez (composer)

Fernando Velázquez (Born 22 November 1976. Getxo, Biscay) is a concert, film and TV composer.

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Film producer

A film producer is a person who oversees the production of a film.

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Filmmaking

Filmmaking (or, in an academic context, film production) is the process of making a film, generally in the sense of films intended for extensive theatrical exhibition.

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Found footage (film technique)

Found footage is a film subgenre in which all or a substantial part of the work is presented as if it were discovered film or video recordings.

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Francisco Franco

Francisco Franco Bahamonde (4 December 1892 – 20 November 1975) was a Spanish general who ruled over Spain as a military dictator from 1939, after the Nationalist victory in the Spanish Civil War, until his death in 1975.

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Francoist Spain

Francoist Spain (España franquista) or the Franco regime (Régimen de Franco), formally known as the Spanish State (Estado Español), is the period of Spanish history between 1939, when Francisco Franco took control of Spain after the Nationalist victory in the Spanish Civil War establishing a dictatorship, and 1975, when Franco died and Prince Juan Carlos was crowned King of Spain.

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Frankenstein's monster

Frankenstein's monster, often erroneously referred to as "Frankenstein", is a fictional character who first appeared in Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.

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Freaks

Freaks is a 1932 American MGM pre-Code horror film produced and directed by Tod Browning.

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FX (TV channel)

FX (originally an initialism of Fox Extended, pronounced and suggesting "effects") is an American basic cable and satellite television channel based in Los Angeles, California, owned by 21st Century Fox through FX Networks, LLC.

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Gadget Invention, Travel, & Adventure

Gadget: Invention, Travel, & Adventure (or Gadget: Past as Future) is an interactive movie/visual novel/adventure game designed by Haruhiko Shono and first released by Synergy Interactive in 1993, following his earlier works Alice: An Interactive Museum (1991) and L-Zone (1992).

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Galaga

is a Japanese arcade game developed and published by Namco Japan and by Midway in North America in 1981.

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Gómez

Gómez is a common Spanish surname.

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Geometria (film)

Geometria is a 1987 short fantasy horror comedy film written and directed by Guillermo del Toro.

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Gill-man

Gill-man — commonly called The Creature — is the lead antagonist of the 1954 black-and-white science fiction film Creature from the Black Lagoon and its two sequels Revenge of the Creature (1955) and The Creature Walks Among Us (1956).

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Godzilla

() is a monster originating from a series of tokusatsu films of the same name from Japan.

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Golden Lion

The Golden Lion (Leone d'Oro) is the highest prize given to a film at the Venice Film Festival.

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Gothic fiction

Gothic fiction, which is largely known by the subgenre of Gothic horror, is a genre or mode of literature and film that combines fiction and horror, death, and at times romance.

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Guadalajara

Guadalajara is the capital and largest city of the Mexican state of Jalisco, and the seat of the municipality of Guadalajara.

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Guadalajara International Film Festival

The Guadalajara International Film Festival (Spanish: Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara) is a week-long film festival held each March in the Mexican city of Guadalajara since 1986.

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Guadalupe Pineda

Guadalupe Pineda (born February 23, 1955) is a famous Mexican singer considered one of Mexico's grassroots musical icons.

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Guillermo del Toro's unrealized projects

The following is a list of unproduced Guillermo del Toro projects in roughly chronological order.

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Guillermo Navarro

Guillermo Navarro, ASC (born 1955) is a Mexican cinematographer and television director.

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Harvey Weinstein

Harvey Weinstein (born March 19, 1952) is an American former film producer.

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Hellboy (2004 film)

Hellboy is a 2004 American superhero film directed by Guillermo del Toro and starring Ron Perlman, loosely based on the Dark Horse Comics graphic novel Hellboy: Seed of Destruction by Mike Mignola.

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Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Hellboy II: The Golden Army is a 2008 American superhero film based on the fictional character Hellboy created by Mike Mignola.

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Hideo Kojima

is a Japanese video game designer, screenwriter, director, and game producer.

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Horror fiction

Horror is a genre of speculative fiction which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten, scare, disgust, or startle its readers or viewers by inducing feelings of horror and terror.

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Horror film

A horror film is a film that seeks to elicit a physiological reaction, such as an elevated heartbeat, through the use of fear and shocking one’s audiences.

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Ico

is an action-adventure game developed by SCE Japan Studio and Team Ico, and published by Sony Computer Entertainment, released for the PlayStation 2 video game console in 2001 and 2002 in various regions.

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Io9

io9 is a blog launched in 2008 by Gawker Media, which focuses on the subjects of science fiction, fantasy, futurism, science, technology and related areas.

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J. Miles Dale

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J. R. R. Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, (Tolkien pronounced his surname, see his phonetic transcription published on the illustration in The Return of the Shadow: The History of The Lord of the Rings, Part One. Christopher Tolkien. London: Unwin Hyman, 1988. (The History of Middle-earth; 6). In General American the surname is also pronounced. This pronunciation no doubt arose by analogy with such words as toll and polka, or because speakers of General American realise as, while often hearing British as; thus or General American become the closest possible approximation to the Received Pronunciation for many American speakers. Wells, John. 1990. Longman pronunciation dictionary. Harlow: Longman, 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor who is best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.

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Jack the Ripper

Jack the Ripper is the best-known name for an unidentified serial killer generally believed to have been active in the largely impoverished areas in and around the Whitechapel district of London in 1888.

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Jalisco

Jalisco, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Jalisco (Estado Libre y Soberano de Jalisco), is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico.

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James Cameron

James Francis CameronSpace Foundation.

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Javier Botet

Javier Botet López (born 30 July 1977) is a Spanish actor.

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Javier Navarrete

Javier Navarrete (born 1956) is a Spanish composer of film scores.

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Jessica Chastain

Jessica Michelle Chastain (born March 24, 1977) is an American actress and film producer.

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John Gilroy (film editor)

John M. Gilroy (born June 24, 1959) is an American film editor whose work includes Michael Clayton, The Bourne Legacy, Pacific Rim, Nightcrawler and Suicide Squad.

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John Hurt

Sir John Vincent Hurt (22 January 1940 – 25 January 2017) was an English actor whose screen and stage career spanned more than 50 years.

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Jonathan Hyde

Jonathan "Nash" Hyde (born 21 May 1948) is an Australian born British actor, known to his film fans for roles such as Herbert Cadbury in Richie Rich, J. Bruce Ismay in the 1997 hit film Titanic, Culverton Smith in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Warren Westridge in Anaconda, Sam Parrish/Van Pelt in Jumanji, and Eldritch Palmer in the FX TV series The Strain.

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Kaiju

(from Japanese "strange beast") is a Japanese film genre that features giant monsters, usually attacking major cities and engaging the military and other monsters in battle.

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Karel Roden

Karel Roden (born 18 May 1962) is a Czech actor, popularly known for his roles in Hellboy and The Bourne Supremacy, and his voice work in Grand Theft Auto IV.

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La hora marcada

La Hora Marcada ("The Marked Hour" or "The Appointed Time") was a 1986 Mexican television anthology series presenting horror and science fiction in the vein of The Twilight Zone, originally aired from 1988 to 1990 by Canal de las Estrellas, with half-hour episodes, and re-broadcast from 1997 to 1999 at various times by Channel 9 (Mexico) and local Televisa channels.

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Ladislav Beran

Ladislav Beran (born February 8, 1967) is an actor and choreographer.

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Lawrence Gordon (producer)

Lawrence Gordon (born March 25, 1936) is an American producer and motion picture executive.

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Leslie Hope

Leslie Ann Hope (born May 6, 1965) is a Canadian actress, best known for her role as Teri Bauer on the Fox television series 24.

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Liberalism

Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on liberty and equality.

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List of awards and nominations received by Guillermo del Toro

The following is a list of awards and nominations received by Mexican director, producer, and writer Guillermo del Toro.

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Lloyd Levin

Lloyd A. Levin (born 1958) is an American film producer.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Luis Buñuel

Luis Buñuel Portolés (22 February 1900 – 29 July 1983) was a Spanish filmmaker who worked in Spain, Mexico and France.

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Luke Goss

Luke Damon Goss (born 29 September 1968) is an English actor and former drummer in late 1980s band Bros.

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Make-up artist

Special effects makeup techniques A make-up artist or makeup artist is an artist whose medium is the human body, applying makeup and prosthetics on others for theatrical, television, film, fashion, magazines and other similar productions including all aspects of the modeling industry.

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Marco Beltrami

Marco Edward Beltrami (born October 7, 1966) is an American film and television composer and conductor, best known for his work scoring horror films such as Scream (1996) and its sequels, Mimic (1997), The Faculty (1998), Resident Evil (2002), Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2011) and The Woman in Black (2012).

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Matthew Robbins (screenwriter)

Matthew Robbins (born July 15, 1945) is an American screenwriter and film director best known as for his work within the American New Wave movement.

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Mecha

The term may refer to both scientific ideas and science fiction genres that center on giant robots or machines controlled by people.

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Mexico

Mexico (México; Mēxihco), officially called the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America.

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Mia Wasikowska

Mia Wasikowska (born 25 October 1989) is an Australian actress.

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Michael Shannon

Michael Corbett Shannon (born August 7, 1974) is an American actor and musician.

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Mike Richardson (publisher)

Mike Richardson (born June 29, 1950) is an American publisher, writer, and Emmy-winning producer.

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Mimic (film)

Mimic is a 1997 American science fiction horror film co-written and directed by Guillermo del Toro based on Donald A. Wollheim's short story of the same name, and starring Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Northam, Josh Brolin, Charles S. Dutton, Giancarlo Giannini and F. Murray Abraham.

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Minneapolis Institute of Art

The Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia), formerly known as the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, is a fine art museum located in the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, on a campus that covers nearly 8 acres (32,000 m²), formerly Morrison Park.

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Mirada Studios

Mirada Studios is a multiplatform storytelling company in Marina del Rey, California, formed by directors Guillermo del Toro and Mathew Cullen, cinematographer Guillermo Navarro, and executive producer Javier Jimenez, to spearhead a new creative production model that integrates classic narrative tradition, and the art of storytelling, with emerging technologies.

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Miramax

Miramax (also known as Miramax Films) is an American entertainment company known for producing and distributing films and television shows.

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Monster

A monster is a creature which produces fear or physical harm by its appearance or its actions.

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Montague Summers

Augustus Montague Summers (10 April 1880 – 10 August 1948) was an English author and clergyman.

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Motion Theory (company)

Motion Theory is an American production company that was founded on 1 May 2000 by Mathew Cullen and Javier Jimenez.

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Nazism

National Socialism (Nationalsozialismus), more commonly known as Nazism, is the ideology and practices associated with the Nazi Party – officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP) – in Nazi Germany, and of other far-right groups with similar aims.

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Netflix

Netflix, Inc. is an American over-the-top media services provider, headquartered in Los Gatos, California.

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Night Zero (The Strain)

"Night Zero" is the first episode of the American television series The Strain.

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Norman Reedus

Norman Mark Reedus (born January 6, 1969) is an American actor, television host, and model.

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Nosferatu

Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (translated as Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror; or simply Nosferatu) is a 1922 German Expressionist horror film, directed by F. W. Murnau, starring Max Schreck as the vampire Count Orlok.

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Octavia Spencer

Octavia Lenora Spencer (born May 25, 1972) is an American actress and author.

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P.T. (video game)

P.T. (acronym for "playable teaser") is a first-person psychological horror video game developed by Kojima Productions, under the pseudonym "7780s Studio", and published by Konami.

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Pacific Rim (film)

Pacific Rim is a 2013 American science fiction film directed by Guillermo del Toro and starring Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Rinko Kikuchi, Charlie Day, Burn Gorman, Robert Kazinsky, Max Martini, and Ron Perlman.

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Pacific Rim Uprising

Pacific Rim Uprising is a 2018 American science fiction film directed by Steven S. DeKnight (in his feature-film directorial debut), and written by DeKnight, Emily Carmichael, Kira Snyder, and T.S. Nowlin.

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Pan's Labyrinth

Pan's Labyrinth (lit) is a 2006 dark fantasy drama film written and directed by Guillermo del Toro.

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Peter Jackson

Sir Peter Robert Jackson (born 31 October 1961) is a New Zealand film director, screenwriter and film producer.

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Planet of the Apes

Planet of the Apes is an American science fiction media franchise consisting of films, books, television series, comics, and other media about a world in which humans and intelligent apes clash for control.

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Practical effect

A practical effect is a special effect produced physically, without computer-generated imagery or other post production techniques.

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Ramin Djawadi

Ramin Djawadi (رامین جوادی; born July 19, 1974) is an Iranian-German composer.

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Reddit

Reddit (stylized in its logo as reddit) is an American social news aggregation, web content rating, and discussion website.

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Republican faction (Spanish Civil War)

The Republican faction (Bando republicano), also known as the Loyalist faction (Bando leal or bando gubernamental), was the side in the Spanish Civil War of 1936 to 1939 that supported the established government of the Second Spanish Republic against the Nationalist or rebel faction of the military rebellion.

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Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl (13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) was a British novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and fighter pilot.

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Robert Maillet

Robert Maillet (born October 26, 1969) is a Canadian actor and retired professional wrestler.

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Robert Zemeckis

Robert Lee Zemeckis (born May 14, 1952) is an American screenwriter and filmmaker frequently credited as an innovator in visual effects.

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Ron Perlman

Ronald Perlman (born April 13, 1950) is an American actor and voice actor.

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Rudo y Cursi

Rudo y Cursi (Spanish, literally, "Rough and Corny") is a 2008 Mexican film starring Diego Luna, Gael García Bernal and Guillermo Francella.

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Sally Hawkins

Sally Cecilia Hawkins (born 27 April 1976) is an English actress.

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Santiago Segura

Santiago Segura Silva (born July 17, 1965 in Madrid) is a Spanish actor, screenwriter, director and producer of Spanish cinema, popular for its pentalogy film series Torrente.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.

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Screen Anarchy

Screen Anarchy, previously known as Twitch Film or Twitch, is a Canadian English-language website featuring news and reviews of mainly international, independent and cult films.

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Screenwriter

A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter for short), scriptwriter or scenarist is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs, comics or video games, are based.

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Shadow of the Colossus

Shadow of the Colossus, released in Japan as Wander and the Colossus, is an action-adventure game developed by SCE Japan Studio and Team Ico, and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2.

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Sidney Wolinsky

Sidney Wolinsky is a Canadian-American (b. Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) film editor with over 30 credits beginning in 1983.

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Sitges Film Festival

The Sitges Film Festival (Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya) is a Spanish film festival and one of the world's foremost international festivals specializing in fantasy and horror films.

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Spanish Civil War

The Spanish Civil War (Guerra Civil Española),Also known as The Crusade (La Cruzada) among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War (Cuarta Guerra Carlista) among Carlists, and The Rebellion (La Rebelión) or Uprising (Sublevación) among Republicans.

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Special effect

Special effects (often abbreviated as SFX, SPFX, or simply FX) are illusions or visual tricks used in the film, television, theatre, video game and simulator industries to simulate the imagined events in a story or virtual world.

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Super 8 film

Super 8mm film is a motion picture film format released in 1965 by Eastman Kodak as an improvement over the older "Double" or "Regular" 8 mm home movie format.

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Tales of Arcadia

Tales of Arcadia is a recently announced trilogy of computer-animated fantasy/science fiction television series created for Netflix by Guillermo del Toro and produced by DreamWorks Animation and Double Dare You.

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The Devil's Backbone

The Devil's Backbone (El espinazo del diablo) is a 2001 gothic horror film directed by Guillermo del Toro, and written by del Toro, David Muñoz, and Antonio Trashorras.

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The Exorcist (film)

The Exorcist is a 1973 American supernatural horror film adapted by William Peter Blatty from his 1971 novel of the same name, directed by William Friedkin, and starring Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair, Max von Sydow, and Jason Miller.

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The Fall (del Toro and Hogan novel)

The Fall is a 2010 vampire horror novel by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan.

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The Hobbit

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again is a children's fantasy novel by English author J. R. R. Tolkien.

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The Hobbit (film series)

The Hobbit is a film series consisting of three high fantasy adventure films directed by Peter Jackson.

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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is a 2012 epic high fantasy adventure film directed by Peter Jackson.

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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies is a 2014 epic high fantasy action film directed by Peter Jackson and written by Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Guillermo del Toro.

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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is a 2013 epic high fantasy adventure film directed by Peter Jackson and produced by WingNut Films in collaboration with New Line Cinema and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

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The Hollywood Reporter

The Hollywood Reporter (THR) is a multi-platform American digital and print magazine founded in 1930 and focusing on the Hollywood film industry, television, and entertainment industries, as well as Hollywood's intersection with fashion, finance, law, technology, lifestyle, and politics.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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The Night Eternal

The Night Eternal is a 2011 vampire horror novel by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan.

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The Omen

The Omen is a 1976 English-language supernatural horror film directed by Richard Donner, and written by David Seltzer.

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The Scotsman

The Scotsman is a Scottish compact newspaper and daily news website headquartered in Edinburgh.

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The Shape of Water

The Shape of Water is a 2017 American romantic fantasy drama film directed by Guillermo del Toro and written by del Toro and Vanessa Taylor.

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The Shining (film)

The Shining is a 1980 horror film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick and co-written with novelist Diane Johnson.

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The Spirit of the Beehive

The Spirit of the Beehive (Spanish: El espíritu de la colmena) is a 1973 Spanish drama film directed by Víctor Erice.

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The Strain

The Strain is a 2009 vampire horror novel by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan.

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The Strain (franchise)

The Strain is a vampire horror media franchise created by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan.

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The Strain (TV series)

The Strain is an American horror drama television series that aired on FX from July 13, 2014, to September 17, 2017.

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The Thing (1982 film)

The Thing is a 1982 American science fiction horror film directed by John Carpenter and written by Bill Lancaster, based on the 1938 John W. Campbell Jr. novella Who Goes There? It tells the story of a group of American researchers in Antarctica who encounter the eponymous "Thing", a parasitic extraterrestrial life form that assimilates and then imitates other organisms.

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The Witches (novel)

The Witches is a children's dark fantasy novel by the British writer Roald Dahl.

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Thomas Tull

Thomas Tull (born 1970) is an American businessman and film producer.

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Time (magazine)

Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.

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Tom Hiddleston

Thomas William Hiddleston (born 9 February 1981) is an English actor, film producer and musician.

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Toronto

Toronto is the capital city of the province of Ontario and the largest city in Canada by population, with 2,731,571 residents in 2016.

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Trailers from Hell

Trailers from Hell (branded as Trailers from Hell!) is a web series in which filmmakers discuss and promote individual movies through commenting on their trailers.

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Travis Beacham

Travis Beacham (born 1980) is an American screenwriter.

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Trollhunters

Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia is an American computer-animated fantasy television series created for Netflix by Guillermo del Toro and produced by DreamWorks Animation and Double Dare You Productions.

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Twitter

Twitter is an online news and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets".

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University of Guadalajara

The University of Guadalajara (Universidad de Guadalajara) is a public higher education institution in the Mexican city of Guadalajara.

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Vanity Fair (magazine)

Vanity Fair is a magazine of popular culture, fashion, and current affairs published by Condé Nast in the United States.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is a weekly American entertainment trade magazine and website owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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Web series

A web series is a series of scripted or non-scripted videos, generally in episodic form, released on the Internet and part of the web television medium, which first emerged in the late 1990s and become more prominent in the early 2000s (decade).

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Wilkie Collins

William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California.

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2015 Cannes Film Festival

The 68th Cannes Film Festival was held from 13 to 24 May 2015.

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70th Academy Awards

The 70th Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), took place on March 23, 1998, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles beginning at 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m. EST.

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74th Venice International Film Festival

The 74th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 30 August to 9 September 2017.

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References

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