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Michel Ocelot
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…
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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.
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2026
The Three-Eared Rabbits
Movie Director
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2022
The Black Pharaoh, the Savage and the Princess
Movie Director
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2021
Lele - Il magico mondo di Emanuele Luzzati
Movie Self
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2021
La Belle Époque de Michel Ocelot
Movie Self (voice)
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2020
Pablo–Paris–Satie
Movie Writer
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2018
Dilili in Paris
Movie Screenplay
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2016
Ivan Tsarevitch and the Changing Princess
Movie Matelot 2 / Le médecin (voice) (archive footage)
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2013
Yoru no tobari no monogatari: Samenai yume
Movie Various Characters (voice) (archive footage)
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2012
Kirikou and the Men and Women
Movie Director
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2011
Tales of the Night
Movie Mélonghé (voice)
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2010
Dragons and Princesses
TV show Director
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2008
The Wedding Guest
Movie Screenplay
- 2008
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2006
Azur & Asmar: The Princes' Quest
Movie Director
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2005
Kirikou and the Wild Beasts
Movie Director
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2005
Ghibli and The Miyazaki Mystery
Movie Self - Interviewee
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2000
Princes and Princesses
Movie Director
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2000
The Princess of Diamonds
Movie Director
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1998
Kirikou and the Sorceress
Movie Writer
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1994
The Little Circus and Other Tales
Movie Screenplay
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1992
The Dancing Shepherdess
Movie Director
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1992
The Prince of Jewels
Movie Director
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1992
Tales of the Night
Movie Writer
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1992
The Maid and the Magician
Movie Writer
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1989
Ciné si
TV show Director
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1989
Icare
Movie Director
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1987
The Four Wishes of the Villein and of His Wife
Movie The Villein (Voice)
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1983
The Insensitive Princess
TV show Narrator (Voice)
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1983
After Midnight
Movie (voice)
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1982
The Legend of the Poor Hunchback
Movie (Voice)
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1981
Beyond Oil
Movie Screenplay
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1981
Daughters of Equality
Movie Screenplay
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1980
The Three Inventors
Movie Narrator (voice)
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1976
Gideon
TV show Director
