Ecole régionale des Beaux-Arts, Angers École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs, Paris California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles
Title
President of ASIFA
Term
1994–1999
Predecessor
Raoul Servais
Awards
Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur[2]
Michel Ocelot (French pronunciation:[miʃɛlɔslo]; born 27 October 1943) is a French writer, designer, storyboard artist and director of animated films and television programs (formerly also animator, background artist, narrator and other roles in earlier works) and a former president of the International Animated Film Association.[3] Though best known for his 1998 debut feature Kirikou and the Sorceress, his earlier films and television work had already won Césars[4] and British Academy Film Awards[5] among others and he was made a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur on 23 October 2009, presented to him by Agnès Varda who had been promoted to commandeur earlier the same year.[2] In 2015 he got the Lifetime Achievement Award at the World Festival of Animated Film - Animafest Zagreb.[6]
^Pilling, Jayne (2001). 2D and Beyond. Animation. Hove: RotoVision. pp. 109, 153. ISBN 2-88046-445-5.
^ abBrane, Edouard (26 October 2009). "Le papa de "Kirikou" reçoit la Légion d'Honneur" (in French). AlloCiné. Retrieved 9 June 2010.
^"Azur & Asmar press pack" (PDF) (Press release). Soda Pictures. 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 January 2022. Retrieved 5 October 2008.
^"Home". lescesarducinema.com.
^"Film Awards". 31 July 2014.
^"animafest.hr". animafest.hr. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
MichelOcelot (French pronunciation: [miʃɛl ɔslo]; born 27 October 1943) is a French writer, designer, storyboard artist and director of animated films...
Sorcière) 1998 France / Belgium MichelOcelot Prince and Princess (French: Prince et princesse) 1999 France MichelOcelot The Triplets of Belleville (French:...
French-language animated adventure fantasy film written and directed by MichelOcelot. Drawn from elements of West African folk tales, it depicts how a newborn...
Kirikou et la sorcière (Kirikou and the Sorceress), 1998, directed by MichelOcelot. Critically acclaimed movie based on a West African folktale; the Japanese...
(Princes and Princesses) is a 2000 compilation film by French animator MichelOcelot. The film consists of six episodes of the 1989 French silhouette animation...
French animated children's film written and directed by MichelOcelot. The second sequel to Ocelot's 1998 film Kirikou and the Sorceress, following Kirikou...
(Sylvain Chomet, 1997) Kirikou and the Sorceress (MichelOcelot, 1998) Princes and Princesses (MichelOcelot, 2000) The Boy Who Wanted to Do the Impossible...
Azur & Asmar: The Princes' Quest (voice) Animated film directed by MichelOcelot 2007 Happy Birthday Short film directed by Yacoubi and Daniel Kupferstein;...
Pierre Coffin) Azur & Asmar: The Princes' Quest (2006, feature film dir. MichelOcelot) Dragon Hunters (2008, feature film dir. Arthur Qwak and Guillaume Ivernel)...
Kirikou's interactions with different animals. It is however unique among MichelOcelot's films, not only in that it is co-directed by Bénédicte Galup (who has...
poet and founder of the Futurist movement Ian McKellen, British actor MichelOcelot, French writer and director of animated films Laurence Olivier, British...
January 2014. Retrieved 28 March 2013. The Jungle Line. jonimitchell.com MichelOcelot (25 August 2008). "Director's notes". Kirikou.net. Archived from the...
Paris) is a 2018 animated period adventure film written and directed by MichelOcelot, with pre-production by Studio O and animation production by Mac Guff...
1998 Traditional Kirikou and the Sorceress France, Belgium, Luxembourg MichelOcelot France 3 Cinéma, Les Armateurs, Monipoly Productions, Odec Kid Cartoons...
Labyrinth, My Neighbor Totoro, Happily N'Ever After, and the films of MichelOcelot. Other works have retold familiar fairy tales in a darker, more horrific...
ni blonde, by Abderrahmane Sissako 2011: Les Contes de la Nuit, by MichelOcelot (voice) 2013: The Africa Express, by Renaud Barret and Florent de La...
by Sylvain Chomet, and Kirikou and the Sorceress and other films by MichelOcelot. 1992: Tales of the Night (TV movie) 1996: Carland Cross (TV series)...
Holmqvist Sweden 1999 Kirikou and the Sorceress Kirikou et la sorcière MichelOcelot France Belgium Luxembourg Gurin with the Foxtail Solan, Ludvig og...
French silhouette animation television special written and directed by MichelOcelot. It aired on Canal+ in France, ZDF in Germany and Channel 4 in the United...
Tcherenkov, Paul Driessen, Abi Feijo, Eric Ledune, Noureddin Zarrinkelk, MichelOcelot, Nina Paley, Raoul Servais, Ihab Shaker and Gianluigi Toccafondo. Full-length...
book material. As with Miyazaki, Takahata and MichelOcelot were great admirers of each other's work. Ocelot names Takahata's Grave of the Fireflies and...