---
name: "Eugenio Caballero"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/eugenio-caballero"
fi1m_id: "eugenio-caballero"
imdb_id: "nm0127429"
tmdb_id: 16985
wikidata_id: "Q508973"
roles: ["Production designer"]
born: "1 January 1972"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 5
average_fi1m_score: 81
average_over: 5
updated: "2026-09-24T23:11:24.819726+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Eugenio Caballero

## Identity

Eugenio Caballero

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/eugenio-caballero
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** eugenio-caballero
- **IMDb ID:** nm0127429
- **TMDB ID:** 16985
- **Wikidata ID:** Q508973
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenio_Caballero, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q508973, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0127429/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/16985

Production designer. Born 1 January 1972 in Mexico City, Mexico.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Born:** 1 January 1972, Mexico City, Mexico
- **Active:** 1996–present
- **Frequently works with:** [Alfonso Cuarón](https://film.one/person/alfonso-cuaron.md), [Álvaro Augustín](https://film.one/person/alvaro-augustin.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar (1 won · 1 nominated)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 82 (1), 2000s 87 (1), 2010s 79 (2), 2020s 77 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 81 to 78 across 5 titles
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 5, Fantasy 1, History 1, Romance 1, Sci-Fi & Fantasy 1, Thriller 1
- **Screen time:** 8 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $430m across 4 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenio_Caballero, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q508973, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0127429/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/16985

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Roma*](https://film.one/film/roma.md) (86), [*One Hundred Years of Solitude*](https://film.one/tv/one-hundred-years-of-solitude.md) (77), [*The Impossible*](https://film.one/film/the-impossible.md) (72)

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## Biography

Eugenio Caballero is a Mexican production designer. Born in 1972 in Mexico City, he was raised there and studied the history of art and the history of cinema in Florence, Italy.

His career began in Mexico with work on music videos and short films before he moved into feature films as an assistant and set decorator. He has worked on nearly 30 films as production designer or in related art department roles, including *Pan's Labyrinth* (2006) and *Roma* (2018). He has collaborated with directors such as Guillermo del Toro, Alfonso Cuarón, J. A. Bayona and Jim Jarmusch.

Caballero won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction for *Pan's Labyrinth* and received an Academy Award nomination for *Roma*. He has also won Ariel Awards and other honours, and is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (5)

- *One Hundred Years of Solitude* (2024), Fi1m 77, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/tv/one-hundred-years-of-solitude.md)
- *Roma* (2018), Fi1m 86, Production design, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/film/roma.md)
- *The Impossible* (2012), Fi1m 72, Production design, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/film/the-impossible.md)
- *Pan's Labyrinth* (2006), Fi1m 87, Production design, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/film/pans-labyrinth.md)
- *Romeo + Juliet* (1996), Fi1m 82, Assistant Set Decoration — [page](https://film.one/film/romeo-juliet.md)

## Complete filmography (24)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Cirque du Soleil: Luzia* (2026), Production Design
- *One Hundred Years of Solitude* (2024), series, Production Design — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/tv/one-hundred-years-of-solitude.md)
- *Separated* (2024), Production Designer
- *Pedro Páramo* (2024), Production Design
- *BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths* (2022), Production Design
- *Roma* (2018), Production Design — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/roma.md)
- *A Monster Calls* (2016), Production Design
- *You're Killing Me Susana* (2016), Production Design
- *Aloft* (2014), Production Design
- *Europa Report* (2013), Production Design
- *The Impossible* (2012), Production Design — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/the-impossible.md)
- *The Runaways* (2010), Production Design
- *Rage* (2009), Production Design
- *The Limits of Control* (2009), Production Design
- *Rudo & Cursi* (2008), Production Design
- *Resident Evil: Extinction* (2007), Production Design
- *Pan's Labyrinth* (2006), Production Design — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/pans-labyrinth.md)
- *Crónicas* (2004), Production Design
- *Leftie* (2003), Production Design
- *I Murder Seriously* (2002), Production Design
- *About the Living* (2001), as Set Decoration · Production Design
- *The Other Conquest* (1999), as Set Decoration
- *Romeo + Juliet* (1996), Assistant Set Decoration — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/romeo-juliet.md)
- *Becoming Capa*, Production Design

## Gallery

- ![Eugenio Caballero](https://film.one/media/person/93084/gallery-993a63528947.jpg) Eugenio Caballero — Milton Martínez / Secretaría de Cultura CDMX, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Eugenio_Caballero_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Eugenio_Caballero_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Eugenio Caballero alongside Gabriela Zas on the red carpet of Fenix Awards. Mexico City, 6 December, 2017. Photographer: Milton Martinez / Secretaria de Cultura](https://film.one/media/person/93084/gallery-7d201a46b9a7.jpg) Eugenio Caballero alongside Gabriela Zas on the red carpet of Fenix Awards. Mexico City, 6 December, 2017. Photographer: Milton Martinez / Secretaria de Cultura — Milton Martínez / Secretaría de Cultura CDMX, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Gabriela_Zas_y_Eugenio_Caballero.jpg/1280px-Gabriela_Zas_y_Eugenio_Caballero.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 1 won, 1 nominated

- 2019: Best Production Design (nominated), for *Roma*
- 2007: Best Production Design (won), for *Pan's Labyrinth*

### Other awards — 1 won

- Gaudí Award for Best Art Direction 2017: Gaudí Award for Best Art Direction (won), for *A Monster Calls*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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