Guillermo del Toro receives BFI fellowship as Cronos returns to cinemas
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Updated · The Guardian · May 8
Guillermo del Toro receives BFI fellowship as Cronos returns to cinemas
12 articles · Updated · The Guardian · May 8
The 61-year-old Mexican director is honoured in London, where BFI Southbank is running a season of his films until 31 May; Cronos is re-released from 15 May.
Del Toro said the award was especially meaningful because British cinema, from Powell and Pressburger to Hammer horror, strongly shaped his work, including his 2025 Frankenstein adaptation.
The fellowship places the Oscar-winning film-maker alongside BFI honourees such as Martin Scorsese and Akira Kurosawa, while he also works on an R-rated stop-motion adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's The Buried Giant.
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