- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- October 27, 1943
- Place of Birth
- Villefranche-sur-Mer, French Riviera, France
Michel Ocelot
Michel Ocelot is a French writer, character 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. Though best known for his 1998 début feature Kirikou and the Sorceress, his earlier films and television work had already won Césars and British Academy Film Awards 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. In 2015 he got the Lifetime Achievement Award at the World Festival of Animated Film - Animafest Zagreb. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michel Ocelot, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
movieThe Three-Eared Rabbits
2026 · Director, Writer, Art Direction
movieThe Black Pharaoh, the Savage and the Princess
2022 · Director, Screenplay, Production Design, Art Direction, Story Artist
movieLele - Il magico mondo di Emanuele Luzzati
2021 · Self
movieLa Belle Époque de Michel Ocelot
2021 · Self (voice)
moviePablo–Paris–Satie
2020 · Writer, Screenplay, Director
movieDilili in Paris
2018 · Screenplay, Director
movieIvan Tsarevitch and the Changing Princess
2016 · Matelot 2 / Le médecin (voice) (archive footage), Writer, Director, Screenplay
movieYoru no tobari no monogatari: Samenai yume
2013 · Various Characters (voice) (archive footage), Storyboard, Director, Screenplay
movieKirikou and the Men and Women
2012 · Director, Writer, Screenplay
movieTales of the Night
2011 · Director, Writer, Screenplay
tvDragons and Princesses
2010 · Director, Creator
movieThe Wedding Guest
2008 · Screenplay, Director
movieThe Hidden Treasures of Michel Ocelot
2008 · , Screenplay, Director, Writer
movieAzur & Asmar: The Princes' Quest
2006 · Director, Screenplay, Writer
movieKirikou and the Wild Beasts
2005 · Director, Screenplay
movieGhibli and The Miyazaki Mystery
2005 · Self - Interviewee
moviePrinces and Princesses
2000 · Director, Writer, Decorator, Animation, Screenplay
movieThe Princess of Diamonds
2000 · Director, Screenplay, Creator
movieKirikou and the Sorceress
1998 · Writer, Director, Screenplay
movieThe Little Circus and Other Tales
1994 · Screenplay, Director
movieThe Maid and the Magician
1992 · Writer, Director
movieThe Dancing Shepherdess
1992 · Director, Writer
movieThe Prince of Jewels
1992 · Director, Writer, Storyboard
movieTales of the Night
1992 · Writer, Screenplay, Director
tvCiné si
1989 · Director, Writer, Screenplay, Art Direction, Decorator, Graphic Designer, Animation, Creator
movieIcare
1989 · Director, Decorator
movieThe Four Wishes of the Villein and of His Wife
1987 · The Villein (Voice), Screenplay, Art Direction, Animation, Director, Writer
tvThe Insensitive Princess
1983 · Narrator (Voice), Director, Screenplay, Writer, Graphic Designer, Creator
movieAfter Midnight
1983 · (voice)
movieThe Legend of the Poor Hunchback
1982 · (Voice), Screenplay, Graphic Designer, Director, Writer
movieDaughters of Equality
1981 · Screenplay, Writer, Editor, Animation, Graphic Designer, Director
movieBeyond Oil
1981 · Screenplay, Writer, Director
movieThe Three Inventors
1980 · Narrator (voice), Screenplay, Director, Writer
tvGideon
1976 · Director, Background Designer, Writer, Creator