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Guillermo del Toro Honored, Announces Netflix Stop-Motion Epic

5/9/2026

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Guillermo del Toro received the British Film Institute’s top honor, a BFI Fellowship, in London.
He announced a stop-motion adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s *The Buried Giant*, co-written with Dennis Kelly and starring Ron Perlman, for Netflix.
He will present a 4K restoration of *Pan’s Labyrinth* at Cannes Classics.
The BFI will re-release a 4K copy of *Cronos* this month.

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Guillermo del Toro received the British Film Institute’s top honor, a BFI Fellowship, in London.
He announced a stop-motion adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s *The Buried Giant*, co-written with Dennis Kelly and starring Ron Perlman, for Netflix.
He will present a 4K restoration of *Pan’s Labyrinth* at Cannes Classics.
The BFI will re-release a 4K copy of *Cronos* this month.