Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Known for
Directing
Born
September 3, 1953 (age 73)
Birthplace
Roanne, Loire, France
Biography
Jean-Pierre Jeunet is a French film director and screenwriter known for the films Delicatessen, The City of Lost Children, Alien: Resurrection and Amélie.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet was born in Roanne, Loire, France. He bought his first camera at the age of 17 and made short films while studying animation at Cinémation Studios. He befriended Marc Caro, a designer and comic book artist who became his longtime collaborator and co-director. They met at an animation festival in Annecy in 1974.
Together, Jeunet and Caro directed award-winning animations. Their first live action film was The Bunker of the Last Gunshots (1981), a short film about soldiers in a bleak futuristic world. Jeunet also directed...
Best known work
Amélie
2001
Alien Resurrection
1997
Delicatessen
1991
A Very Long Engagement
2004
The City of Lost Children
1995
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
2013
Micmacs
2009
Bigbug
2022
Things I Like, Things I Don't Like
1990
The Extraordinary Voyage
2011Filmography
TBA
Temps mort autour de Caro & Jeunetas Jean-Pierre Jeunet
TBA
Devils and SaintsDirector
2026
VioletteDirector, Screenplay, Producer
2025
The Original+as Self - Guest
2025
Alien: Terror in Spaceas Self - Filmmaker
2023
Amélie: The Real Storyas Self, Writer, Director
2022
BigbugProducer, Screenplay, Director
2021
The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfusas Self (archive footage)
2019
LooopProducer
2017
Cinéma… par Albert Dupontelas Self
2017
Two Snails Set OffDirector, Writer
2015
2015
CasanovaDirector
2015
2014
Riding a Train of Thoughtsas Self
2013
The Young and Prodigious T.S. SpivetDirector, Writer, Producer
2011
The Extraordinary Voyageas Self - Filmmaker
2009
MicmacsDirector, Writer, Producer
2005
2004
A Very Long EngagementDirector, Screenplay, Producer
2003
2002
The Alien Sagaas Self (archive footage)
2002
2001
AmélieDirector, Screenplay
2001
Inside the Making of - AmélieDirector