Michel Ocelot

Michel Ocelot
2019
Born (1943-10-27) 27 October 1943 (age 81)
Villefranche-sur-Mer, French Riviera, France[1]
NationalityFrench
EducationEcole régionale des Beaux-Arts, Angers
École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs, Paris
California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles
TitlePresident of ASIFA
Term1994–1999
PredecessorRaoul Servais
AwardsChevalier of the Légion d'honneur[2]

Michel Ocelot (French pronunciation: [miʃɛl ɔslo]; born 27 October 1943) is a French writer, 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.[3] Though best known for his 1998 debut feature Kirikou and the Sorceress, his earlier films and television work had already won Césars[4] and British Academy Film Awards[5] 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.[2] In 2015 he got the Lifetime Achievement Award at the World Festival of Animated Film - Animafest Zagreb.[6]

  1. ^ Pilling, Jayne (2001). 2D and Beyond. Animation. Hove: RotoVision. pp. 109, 153. ISBN 2-88046-445-5.
  2. ^ a b Brane, Edouard (26 October 2009). "Le papa de "Kirikou" reçoit la Légion d'Honneur" (in French). AlloCiné. Retrieved 9 June 2010.
  3. ^ "Azur & Asmar press pack" (PDF) (Press release). Soda Pictures. 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 January 2022. Retrieved 5 October 2008.
  4. ^ "Home". lescesarducinema.com.
  5. ^ "Film Awards". 31 July 2014.
  6. ^ "animafest.hr". animafest.hr. Retrieved 10 September 2023.