Guillermo Navarro

I've almost certainly watched Navarro's work without crediting him, which is the cinematographer's quiet fate. This Mexico City native shot Pan's Labyrinth for Guillermo del Toro and won the Academy Award for it, conjuring that damp, candlelit labyrinth out of pure light and shadow. A longtime collaborator of Robert Rodriguez too, he is a craftsman who decides the very air a film breathes. I'll argue that authorship often lives more in the image-maker than the writer or director; the look is the feeling. That a Mexican eye underpins the texture of so many beloved films is, to me, one of the most thrilling stories in modern cinema.

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Name (English)

Guillermo Navarro

Name (Japanese)

ギレルモ・ナヴァロ

Reading

ぎれるも・なゔぁろ

Born

1955

Origin

Mexico City, Mexico

Occupation

cinematographer / photographer / television director / film director / screenwriter

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Goat

Awards & achievements

• 2007 Academy Award for Best Cinematography

• Official sitehttp://planbfree.com/dop/guillermo-navarro-4/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillermo%20Navarro
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AE%E3%83%AC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%A2%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8A%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%AD
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1314113

Tags

• cinematographer
• photographer
• television director

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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