Guillermo del Toro (Author) Guillermo del Toro was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1964. He is the director of the films Cronos , Mimic , The Devil's Backbone , Blade II , Hellboy , Hellboy II , Pacific Rim and Pan's Labyrinth , which garnered enormous critical praise worldwide and won three Academy Awards, and The Shape of Water , which won the 2018 Oscar Award for Best Picture. Chuck Hogan (Author) Chuck Hogan is the author of several acclaimed novels, including Devils in Exile and Prince of Thieves , which won the 2005 Hammett Award, was named one of the ten best novels of the year by Stephen King, and was the basis of the motion picture The Town .