Biography
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.
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Known For
Filmography
Acting Credits (11)
Lele - Il magico mondo di Emanuele Luzzati
Self
2021
La Belle Époque de Michel Ocelot
Self (voice)
2021
Ivan Tsarevitch and the Changing Princess
Matelot 2 / Le médecin (voice) (archive footage)
2016
Yoru no tobari no monogatari: Samenai yume
Various Characters (voice) (archive footage)
2013
The Hidden Treasures of Michel Ocelot
2008
