---
name: "Roberto Bonelli"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/roberto-bonelli"
fi1m_id: "roberto-bonelli"
imdb_id: "nm1163468"
tmdb_id: 17676
roles: ["Production designer"]
born: "14 November 1972"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 49
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T19:54:22.008105+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."
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# Roberto Bonelli

## Identity

Roberto Bonelli

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/roberto-bonelli
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** roberto-bonelli
- **IMDb ID:** nm1163468
- **TMDB ID:** 17676
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1163468/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/17676

Production designer. Born 14 November 1972 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Born:** 14 November 1972, Copenhagen, Denmark
- **Active:** 2009–present
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 34 (1), 2020s 64 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1163468/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/17676

## Biography

Roberto Bonelli is a production designer. Born in Copenhagen in 1972 to a Danish mother and Italian father, he studied theatre design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Palermo and specialised in design for film and television at the Florence Academy of Fine Arts, graduating with first-class honours in 1997. He has been based in Mexico City since around 2005.

He has worked as art director, set decorator and production designer on numerous features. Early credits include art direction on *Apocalypto* (2006) and *Love in the Time of Cholera* (2007), and set decoration on *Dragonball Evolution* (2009). Later work encompasses supervising art director on *BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths* (2022) and production design on *Hail Mary* (2023) and *Blink Twice* (2024). He received a Mexican Academy Award for best production design and an Art Directors Guild nomination for *BARDO*.

*Sources: motionpictures.org, robertobonelli.com, imdb.com, productiondesignerscollective.org.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Blink Twice* (2024), Fi1m 64, Production design, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/film/blink-twice.md)
- *Dragonball Evolution* (2009), Fi1m 34, Set Decoration — [page](https://film.one/film/dragonball-evolution.md)

## Complete filmography (15)

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

- *Blink Twice* (2024), Production Design — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/blink-twice.md)
- *Hail Mary* (2023), Production Designer
- *BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths* (2022), Supervising Art Director
- *A Beginner's Guide to the Presidency* (2016), Production Design
- *Sundays* (2015), Production Design
- *Bestial* (2014), Production Design
- *Morelos* (2012), Production Design
- *I Hate Love* (2012), Production Design
- *Memories of My Melancholy Whores* (2011), Production Design
- *The Two Perez* (2010), Production Design
- *Dragonball Evolution* (2009), as Set Decoration — Fi1m 34, [page](https://film.one/film/dragonball-evolution.md)
- *Che: Part One* (2008), Set Designer — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/che-part-one.md)
- *Love in the Time of Cholera* (2007), as Art Direction
- *Apocalypto* (2006), as Art Direction
- *Ultraviolet* (2006), Set Designer

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