Eugenio Caballero

Eugenio Caballero is an art director and production designer from Mexico City. He studied Art History and Film History in Florence, and at the end of his academic training, he began his career in short films and music videos, with which he obtained several recognitions, including an MTV Award. After that, he began his career in full-length films as an assistant and decorator. He has made more than 30 films and has worked with directors such as Jim Jarmusch, Baz Luhrmann, Alfonso Cuarón, Sebastián Cordero, Floria Sigismondi, Claudia Llosa, Fernando Eimbcke, Carlos Cuarón, Russell Mulcahy and Paul Anderson, among others.

Eugenio has been nominated twice for the Academy Awards, winning the Oscar for Pan’s Labyrinth, a Guillermo del Toro film. This work also gave him many awards, including the Art Director’s Guild Award, by the Art Directors Guild; the Ariel of the Mexican Academy of Cinematography; Los Angeles Film Critics Association; Gold Derby Awards; Online Film Critics Association and nominations for the BAFTA, Goya, Satellite Awards and Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards.

In 2014, he designed the opening ceremony of the Paralympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, for director Daniele Finzi, with whom he also collaborated in the design of the show Luzia by Cirque Du Soleil in 2016. In 2017 and 2018, he designed the film Roma in collaboration with Alfonso Cuarón, work that has earned him multiple international awards and nominations, including the Critics Choice Awards, Art Director’s Guild Award, BAFTA and the Academy Award. He has been a jury at numerous international festivals, in addition to being a member of AMPAS, the Academy of Film Arts and Sciences of Spain and the Mexican Academy of Film Arts and Sciences.

Festival Internacional de Cine de Monterrey