Michel Ocelot
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- October 27, 1943
- Birthplace
- Villefranche-sur-Mer, French Riviera, France
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
The Three-Eared Rabbits 2026
Director, Writer, Art Direction
The Black Pharaoh, the Savage and the Princess 2022
Director, Screenplay, Production Design, Art Direction, Story Artist
Lele - Il magico mondo di Emanuele Luzzati 2021
as Self
La Belle Époque de Michel Ocelot 2021
as Self (voice)
Pablo–Paris–Satie 2020
Writer, Screenplay, Director
Dilili in Paris 2018
Screenplay, Director
Ivan Tsarevitch and the Changing Princess 2016
as Matelot 2 / Le médecin (voice) (archive footage), Writer, Director, Screenplay
Yoru no tobari no monogatari: Samenai yume 2013
as Various Characters (voice) (archive footage), Storyboard, Director, Screenplay
Kirikou and the Men and Women 2012
Director, Writer, Screenplay
Tales of the Night 2011
as Mélonghé (voice), Director, Writer, Screenplay
The Wedding Guest 2008
Screenplay, Director
The Hidden Treasures of Michel Ocelot 2008
Actor, Screenplay, Director, Writer
Azur & Asmar: The Princes' Quest 2006
Director, Screenplay, Writer
Kirikou and the Wild Beasts 2005
Director, Screenplay
Ghibli and The Miyazaki Mystery 2005
as Self - Interviewee
The Princess of Diamonds 2000
Director, Screenplay, Creator
Princes and Princesses 2000
Director, Writer, Decorator, Animation, Screenplay
Kirikou and the Sorceress 1998
Writer, Director, Screenplay
The Little Circus and Other Tales 1994
Screenplay, Director
Tales of the Night 1992
Writer, Screenplay, Director
The Prince of Jewels 1992
Director, Writer, Storyboard, Story
The Dancing Shepherdess 1992
Director, Writer
The Maid and the Magician 1992
Writer, Director
Icare 1989
Director, Decorator
The Four Wishes of the Villein and of His Wife 1987
as The Villein (Voice), Screenplay, Art Direction, Animation, Director, Writer
After Midnight 1983
as (voice)
The Legend of the Poor Hunchback 1982
as (Voice), Screenplay, Graphic Designer, Director, Writer
Beyond Oil 1981
Screenplay, Writer, Director
Daughters of Equality 1981
Screenplay, Writer, Editor, Animation, Graphic Designer, Director
The Three Inventors 1980
as Narrator (voice), Screenplay, Director, Writer
Credits from TMDB.