
Known for
Directing
Born
October 27, 1943 (age 82)
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 An...
2026
Director, Writer, Art Direction
2022
Director, Screenplay, Production Design, Story Artist, Art Direction
2021
2021
as Self (voice)
2020
Director, Screenplay, Writer
2018
Screenplay, Director
2016
as Matelot 2 / Le médecin (voice) (archive footage), Writer, Director, Screenplay
2013
as Various Characters (voice) (archive footage), Storyboard, Screenplay, Director
2012
Director, Screenplay, Writer
2011
as Mélonghé (voice), Director, Writer, Screenplay
2010
2008
Screenplay, Director
2008
Screenplay, Writer, Director
2006
Director, Screenplay, Writer
2005
Director, Screenplay
2005
as Self - Interviewee
2000
Director, Writer, Decorator, Animation, Screenplay
2000
Creator, Screenplay, Director
1998
Writer, Director, Screenplay
1994
Director, Screenplay
1992
Writer, Director
1992
Director, Writer, Storyboard, Story
1992
Writer, Director
1992
Screenplay, Writer, Director
1989
Director, Screenplay, Writer, Art Direction, Decorator, Animation, Graphic Designer, Creator