---
name: "Jorge Blanco"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jorge-blanco"
fi1m_id: "jorge-blanco"
imdb_id: "nm3360961"
tmdb_id: 117052
wikidata_id: "Q3183796"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "1 January 1950"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-05T11:42:11.441975+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."
---

# Jorge Blanco

## Identity

Jorge Blanco

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jorge-blanco
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jorge-blanco
- **IMDb ID:** nm3360961
- **TMDB ID:** 117052
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3183796
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3183796, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3360961/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/117052

Director. Born 1 January 1950 in Caracas, Venezuela.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 1 January 1950, Caracas, Venezuela
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3183796, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3360961/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/117052

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Planet 51*](https://film.one/film/planet-51.md) (52)

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

## Biography

Jorge Blanco is a Spanish director and writer working in animation. He began his career in the mid-1990s at Pyro Studios in Madrid, contributing to the *Commandos* video game series as a graphic artist and art director.

In 2002 he moved to the newly founded Ilion Animation Studios, where he served as co-director of the 2009 feature *Planet 51* alongside Javier Abad and Marcos Martínez. He was also one of the four originators of the film's story idea. He later directed the short *Talent Explorers* (2020) and contributed visual effects to *Mortadelo and Filemon: Mission Implausible* (2014).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Planet 51* (2009), Fi1m 52, Director, Idea — [page](https://film.one/film/planet-51.md)

## Complete filmography (2)

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

- *Mortadelo & Filemon: Mission Implausible* (2014), as Art Direction · Lighting Artist
- *Planet 51* (2009), Director, Idea — Fi1m 52, [page](https://film.one/film/planet-51.md)

## Awards

### Other awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- European Film Award for Best Animated Feature Film 2010: European Film Award for Best Animated Feature Film (nominated), for *Planet 51*

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

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