---
name: "Fernando Franco"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/fernando-franco"
fi1m_id: "fernando-franco"
imdb_id: "nm1136120"
tmdb_id: 53230
wikidata_id: "Q16567058"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "1 January 1976"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 82
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-27T08:13:25.696073+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."
---

# Fernando Franco

## Identity

Fernando Franco

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/fernando-franco
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** fernando-franco
- **IMDb ID:** nm1136120
- **TMDB ID:** 53230
- **Wikidata ID:** Q16567058
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Franco, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16567058, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1136120/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/53230

Editor. Born 1 January 1976 in Sevilla, Spain.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 1 January 1976, Sevilla, Spain
- **Active:** 2012–present
- **Also known as:** Fernando Franco García
- **Frequently works with:** [Ibon Cormenzana](https://film.one/person/ibon-cormenzana.md), [Pablo Berger](https://film.one/person/pablo-berger.md)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 81 (1), 2020s 84 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Franco, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16567058, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1136120/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/53230

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Robot Dreams*](https://film.one/film/robot-dreams.md) (84)
- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Blancanieves*](https://film.one/film/blancanieves.md) (81)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Fernando Franco García is a Spanish film editor, director and screenwriter. Born in Seville in 1976, he studied audiovisual communication at the University of Seville and specialised in editing at the ECAM in Madrid. He began working as an editor in 2001 and has contributed to more than fifty feature films.

His editing credits include *Blancanieves* (2012) and *Robot Dreams* (2023), both directed by Pablo Berger, for each of which he received a Goya Award nomination for Best Editing. He has been nominated for the Goya in that category on seven occasions. As a director, his feature debut *La herida* (2013) won him the Goya Award for Best New Director.

*Sources: es.wikipedia.org, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Robot Dreams* (2023), Fi1m 84, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/robot-dreams.md)
- *Blancanieves* (2012), Fi1m 81, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/blancanieves.md)

## Complete filmography (70)

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

- *La luz* (2026), Director, Writer, Editor
- *A Scary Movie* (2026), Producer
- *Subsuelo* (2025), Screenplay, Director, Producer
- *The Change of the Wheel* (2024), Editor, Executive Producer, Producer
- *Little Loves* (2024), Editor
- *Robot Dreams* (2023), Editor — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/robot-dreams.md)
- *One Year, One Night* (2022), Editor
- *The Rite of Spring* (2022), Director, Screenplay
- *Plastic Touch* (2022), Thanks
- *Romance* (2021), Editor
- *FOMO* (2021), Thanks
- *Black Beach* (2020), Editor
- *Me* (2020), Writer, Producer, Editor
- *The Moneychanger* (2019), Editor
- *Belmonte* (2019), Producer, Editor
- *Journey to a Mother's Room* (2018), Editor
- *Dying* (2017), Director, Writer
- *May God Save Us* (2016), Editor
- *The Romantic Barber* (2016), Editor
- *Campanya* (2016), Editor
- *On Football* (2016), Consulting Editor
- *Money* (2016), Editor
- *The right place* (2015), Editor, Executive Producer, Director, Writer
- *The Apostate* (2015), as Executive Producer · Editor
- *The Refugees* (2015), series, Editor
- *The High Pressures* (2014), Editor
- *Tryouts* (2013), Editor
- *Wounded* (2013), Director, Writer, Producer
- *La media vuelta* (2013), Director, Screenplay
- *Scorpion in Love* (2013), Editor
- *Good Morning Resistance!* (2013), Associate Producer
- *Blancanieves* (2012), Editor — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/blancanieves.md)
- *A Story for the Modlins* (2012), Editor
- *Offf PDV ¡Retaguardia!* (2012), Director
- *Voice Over* (2011), Editor
- *Room* (2011), Writer, Director
- *Don't Be Afraid* (2011), Editor
- *Emetreinta* (2011), Editor
- *El idioma imposible* (2010), Editor
- *Bon Appétit* (2010), Editor
- *Les variations Dielman* (2010), Editor, Screenplay, Director
- *Basket Bronx* (2009), Editor
- *El hombre orquesta* (2009), Editor
- *TU(a)MOR* (2009), Screenplay, Director
- *KC#4: El tránsito* (2009), Producer
- *La banda en la isla de la magia* (2008), Editor
- *The Appeared* (2008), Editor
- *Historia nº 52785/614-18 (Historias de una historia)* (2008), Editor
- *The End* (2008), Director, Screenplay
- *Dolly* (2007), Editor
- *Goodbye, America* (2007), Editor
- *Drop down* (2007), Editor
- *Mensajes de voz* (2007), Director
- *Skizo* (2006), Editor
- *Cargo* (2006), Editor
- *A Esteticista* (2005), Editor
- *Northeast* (2005), Editor
- *15 días contigo* (2005), Editor
- *Polígono Sur* (2003), Editor
- *Howard Hawks, San Sebastián 1972* (2003), Editor
- *Revolución* (2002), Editor
- *Canícula* (2002), Editor
- *The Best Is Yet to Come* (2002), Editor
- *Cuatro puntos cardinales* (2002), Editor
- *Gaudí en la favela* (2002), Editor
- *Portman, a la sombra de Roberto* (2001), Editor
- *La cartera* (2001), Editor
- *Restos de noche* (2001), Editor
- *El Congreso* (2000), Editor
- *Lorca*, Director

## Gallery

- ![Fernando Franco](https://film.one/media/person/11916/gallery-149e8da4a217.jpg) Fernando Franco — Pedro J Pacheco, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Goyas_2025_-_Equipo_El_cambio_de_rueda_%28Fernando_Franco%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Goyas_2025_-_Equipo_El_cambio_de_rueda_%28Fernando_Franco%29_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Fernando Franco](https://film.one/media/person/11916/gallery-cd0b46857eb5.jpg) Fernando Franco — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won, 1 nominated

- European Film Award for European Discovery of the Year 2014: European Film Award for European Discovery of the Year (nominated), for *Wounded*
- Goya Award for Best New Director 2013: Goya Award for Best New Director (won)

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

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