Every surface is systematically covered with models and drawings and pictures and relics and props from the darkly enchanted horror-world of his films. It serves as his office - he lives in a similarly anonymous home nearby - but also as a personal retreat, a private museum, and a “man cave,” as he puts it, filled with a reference library of books about his various interests (vampires, fictional vampires, real gothic romance anatomy). Guillermo del Toro finally got to live with his monsters nine years ago, when he was 44 and moved into what he calls Bleak House, in Thousand Oaks, a planned community with a golf course about an hour outside of Los Angeles. Still, the industry is determined to celebrate - and this week we look at a few of the performances, directors, achievements, and, in one case, prosthetic jowls most likely to be honored. It’s been a strange year for Hollywood (to say the least), full of resistance and revelations.
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