- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- September 3, 1953
- Place of Birth
- Roanne, Loire, France
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Jean-Pierre Jeunet is a French film director and screenwriter known for the films Delicatessen, The City of Lost Children, Alien: Resurrection and Amélie. Jean-Pierre Jeunet was born in Roanne, Loire, France. He bought his first camera at the age of 17 and made short films while studying animation at Cinémation Studios. He befriended Marc Caro, a designer and comic book artist who became his longtime collaborator and co-director. They met at an animation festival in Annecy in 1974. Together, Jeunet and Caro directed award-winning animations. Their first live action film was The Bunker of the Last Gunshots (1981), a short film about soldiers in a bleak futuristic world. Jeunet also directed numerous advertisements and music videos, such as Jean Michel Jarre's Zoolook (together with Caro). Jeunet's films often resonate with the late twentieth century French film movement, cinéma du look…
Filmography
Violette
movieViolette
2026 · Director, Screenplay, Producer
movieThe Original+
2025 · Self - Guest
movieAlien: Terror in Space
2025 · Self - Filmmaker
movieAmélie: The Real Story
2023 · Self, Director, Writer
movieBigbug
2022 · Producer, Screenplay, Director
movieThe Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus
2021 · Self (archive footage)
movieLooop
2019 · Producer
movieCinéma… par Albert Dupontel
2017 · Self
movieTwo Snails Set Off
2017 · Director, Writer
tvCasanova
2015 · Director
movieCasanova
2015 · Director
Aujourd'hui je mange avec...
tvAujourd'hui je mange avec...
2015 · Self - Guest
movieRiding a Train of Thoughts
2014 · Self
movieThe Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
2013 · Writer, Director, Producer
movieThe Extraordinary Voyage
2011 · Self - Filmmaker
movieMicmacs
2009 · Director, Writer, Producer
movieUne année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles"
2005 · Self
movieA Very Long Engagement
2004 · Screenplay, Director, Producer
movieOne Step Beyond: The Making of Alien Resurrection
2003 · Self
movieThe Alien Saga
2002 · Self (archive footage)
movieA Day in the Life of French Cinema
2002 · Self
movieAmélie
2001 · Director, Screenplay
movieInside the Making of - Amélie
2001 · Director
movieAlien Resurrection
1997 · Director
movieThe City of Lost Children
1995 · Director, Screenplay, Additional Dialogue
tvEurotrash
1993
movieThe King of Ads, Part 2
1993 · Director
movieDelicatessen
1991 · Screenplay, Director
movieThings I Like, Things I Don't Like
1990 · Director, Writer, Editor
tvDe l'autre côté
1989 · Director of Photography
movieNo Rest for Billy Brakko
1983 · , Screenplay, Editor, Director
movieThe Bunker of the Last Gunshots
1982 · , Director, Director of Photography, Costume Design, Writer, Editor
movieThe Carousel
1981 · Writer, Animation, Director
movieL'évasion
1978 · Director
tvSpécial cinéma
1974 · Self
Temps mort autour de Caro & Jeunet
movieTemps mort autour de Caro & Jeunet
— · Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Des diables et des saints
movieDes diables et des saints
— · Director