
Known for
Directing
Born
September 3, 1953 (age 73)
Birthplace
Roanne, Loire, France
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...
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Director
2026
Director, Screenplay, Producer
2025
as Self - Guest
2025
as Self - Filmmaker
2023
as Self, Writer, Director
2022
Producer, Screenplay, Director
2021
as Self (archive footage)
2019
Producer
2017
as Self
2017
Director, Writer
2015
2015
Director
2015
2014
as Self
2013
Director, Writer, Producer
2011
as Self - Filmmaker
2009
Director, Writer, Producer
2005
2004
Director, Screenplay, Producer
2003
2002
as Self (archive footage)
2002
2001
Director, Screenplay
2001
Director