Dialogue avec Eugenio Caballero

Eugenio Caballero is the Academy Award winning production designer of Guillermo del Toro’sPan’s Labyrinth. Mr. Caballero’s work on the film also earned him an “Ariel Award”, an “ArtDirectors’ Guild Award” (the most prestigious award in his field), a “Los Angeles Film CriticsAssociation Award”, the “Gold Derby Award”, the “Online Film Critics Association” and “Goya”,“Satellite”, “Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award” and BAFTA Award nominations.Born in Mexico City, Mr. Caballero, after study History of Art and History of Cinema in Florence,Italy his career as a production designer began in Mexico, with award-winning work on musicvideos (MTV award) and short films, soon he started to work in feature films as an assistant, and aset decorator.Mr. Caballero’s credits include near 30 films, 20 of them as a designer.He have worked with directors Jim Jarmusch (The Limit of Control), Baz Lurthman (Romeo andJuliet), Alfonso Cuaron (ROMA), Sebastian Cordero (Cronicas, Rabia and Europa Report), FloriaSigismondi (The runaways), Claudia Llosa (Aloft), Fernando Eimbcke (Club Sandwich) CarlosCuaron (Rudo y Cursi), Russel Mulcahy (Resident Evil Extinction), among others.His first collaboration with J.A.Bayona on “The Impossible”, starring Naomi Watts, EwanMacGregor and Tom Holland, earned him a Goya nomination and an Art Directors Guildnomination in 2013.In 2014 Mr Caballero designed the Paralympic Opening Ceremony of the Sochi Winter Olympics,for director Daniele Finzi. With whom he have also collaborated with the Cirque du Soleil in theshow “Luzia” in 2016.In 2015 and 2016 he worked on the film “A Monster Calls”, directed by J.A. Bayona, based on themulti awarded book by Patrick Ness which earned him a “Goya” on his third nomination to thisaward. He received the “Gaudi Award” , the “Fenix Award” and the “Platino Award” award for thesame film.In 2017-2018 he designed the film “ROMA” working alongside with the director Alfonso Cuarón,for this work he has earned multiple international awards and nominations, including the CriticsChoice Awards, the Art Directors’ Guild, the BAFTAs and the Academy Award.In 2020-2021 he worked on the film Bardo directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritú, which has notyet been released.Mr. Caballero’s has been nominated 7 times for the Ariel award -Mexico’s main film award – fromwhich he has won 3.He has served as a Jury member on numerous international festivals and he is a member of theAMPAS (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences), the Mexican and Spanish film academies.Photo:Leonardo Manzo. Soutenez ce podcast http://supporter.acast.com/lueur. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.