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Eugenio Zanetti is an Argentine dramatist, painter, film set designer, and theater and opera director.
Zanetti was born in Córdoba, Argentina. He became involved in the cinema of Argentina, and provided set designs for Mario Sábato's The Power of Darkness, for which he won a Moscow Film Festival Award for Design, and Alejandro Doria's Los Pasajeros del jardÃn.
He relocated to Los Angeles, and began a career in Hollywood working as the production designer for Wayne Wang in Slam Dance. Zanetti created set designs for Some Girls, for which he won a Toronto Film Festival Design Award, Flatliners, Last Action Hero, Soapdish, and Restoration, for which he earned an Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He also designed set for What Dreams May Come, The Haunting, Alfonso Arau's Zapata: El sueño de un héroe, and Roland Joffé's There Be Dragons, among others. He returned to Argentine film in 2008, when he joined the production of Jorge RodrÃguez's Ãrbol de fuego.
Zanetti's more than 40 theater and opera productions in Europe and South America include: A Masked Ball and Nabucco by Giuseppe Verdi, and Madama Butterfly and Tosca by Giacomo Puccini. He also had a successful career as Director of Musicals, receiving the Thalia Award in Argentina for his local productions of They're Playing Our Song, Chicago and Dracula as a director, and the same award for his adaptation of Philippa Gregory's The White Queen. He also earned a Star of the Sea Award for The Cherry Orchard, Chapter Two, Company, and Peer Gynt.
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