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37. GUILLERMO DEL TORO
AGE 43
JOB TITLE Writer/producer/director
SMART BECAUSE He elevated gothic horror to art. After adapting cult comic book Hellboy into a hit, he made the fantastical foreign-language political allegory Pan's Labyrinth, which scored three Oscars. Bilingual, bicultural, multigenre, he has a voice that feels both fresh and ancient.
NEXT Hellboy 2: The Golden Army.
NO OVERNIGHT SUCCESS Worked as a makeup artist for nearly a decade before directing his first feature.
