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Michel Ocelot

Director • Born 1943

Michel Ocelot

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About

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.

Known for

Kirikou and the Sorceress posterKirikou and the SorceressMovie • 1998Kirikou and the Wild Beasts posterKirikou and the Wild BeastsMovie • 2005Azur & Asmar: The Princes' Quest posterAzur & Asmar: The Princes' QuestMovie • 2006Tales of the Night posterTales of the NightMovie • 2011Princes and Princesses posterPrinces and PrincessesMovie • 2000Dilili in Paris posterDilili in ParisMovie • 2018Kirikou and the Men and Women posterKirikou and the Men and WomenMovie • 2012The Black Pharaoh, the Savage and the Princess posterThe Black Pharaoh, the Savage and the PrincessMovie • 2022Ivan Tsarevitch and the Changing Princess posterIvan Tsarevitch and the Changing PrincessMovie • 2016The Three Inventors posterThe Three InventorsMovie • 1980