Roberto Bonelli is considered one of the most versatile Production Designers in the industry. He has done major studio movies as Art Director, Set Decorator and Production designer.

In his 25-year career he has worked in Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America. He speaks fluently English, Spanish, Italian and Danish. He has worked on 24 feature films and been the Production Designer on 12 of them.

Apart from feature films, Bonelli is also a Production designer for commercials. He has done Superbowl commercials for Bud Light, Turbo Tax, Pringles and TUBI and also important commercial campaigns for Ford, YouTube, Samsung, HP and Bacardi.

Roberto Bonelli was born on the 14^th of November 1972 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

He is the son of a Danish mother and an Italian father, and lived in Copenhagen until 1991. After High School, he went to Italy to study Theatre Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Palermo. In 1995 he transferred to Florence Academy of Fine Arts to specialize in Design for Film & TV and in 1997 he graduated with first class honors.

In 2019, he received an 0-1 work visa for the U.S. by being classified as «An individual of extraordinary ability» by the USCIS.

His complete filmography can be seen on imdb.com but here are some picks:

In 2001, he was the principal Set Design ‘Frida’ which was nominated for the Oscar for best Production Design.

In 2004, he spent seven months between Shanghai and Hong Kong designing sets for the sci-fi movie ‘Ultra Violet’ staring Milla Jovovich.

Then in 2006 he was the key Art Director on Mel Gibson’s acclaimed movie ‘Apocalypto’. Straight from that we went to work as Art Director on ‘Love In The Time Of Cholera’ directed by Mike Newell.

In 2008, he was the Set Decorator on the 20^th Century Fox production ‘Dragonball Evolution’.

In 2010, he did the Production Design on ‘Memoria De Mis Putas Triste’ Directed by Henning Carlsen.

In 2012, he was the Production Designer on the epic historical movie about the Mexican independence hero: ‘Morelos’.

In 2021, he was the Supervising Art Director on ‘Bardo’ Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, for which he was nominated for an Art Director Guild Award and won a Mexican Academy Award for best Production Design.

In 2022, he was the Production Designer on ‘Blink Twice’, directed by Zoë Kravitz and produced by Bruce Cohen for MGM.

2023 and the first quarter of 2024 he was the Production Design for season 1 and 2 of the Netflix series: ‘Bandidos’.

Since 2005 Bonelli is based in Mexico City where he is one of the leading figures in turning Production Design into a more environmentally sustainable discipline.

Apart from movies he also has a big passion for puppet Theater and works in his spare time on producing children shows based on Hans Christian Andersen’s stories.

He is married to the Production Designer Fernanda Contreras, and together they have two teenage kids.