Michel Ocelot

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1943-10-27 (82 years old)

Place of Birth

Villefranche-sur-Mer, French Riviera, France

Michel Ocelot

Biography

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 Life...

Acting

1983

After Midnight

as (voice)

2013

Yoru no tobari no monogatari: Samenai yume

as Various Characters (voice) (archive footage)

2005

Ghibli and The Miyazaki Mystery

as Self - Interviewee

1980

The Three Inventors

as Narrator (voice)

2016

Ivan Tsarevitch and the Changing Princess

as Matelot 2 / Le médecin (voice) (archive footage)

Production

2000

2011

2011

2011

Tales of the Night

as Screenplay

1974

1980

The Three Inventors

as Screenplay

1981

2018

Dilili in Paris

as Screenplay

1981

Beyond Oil

as Writer

1981

Daughters of Equality

as Graphic Designer

1981

1981

Beyond Oil

as Screenplay

1982

2000

2000

1980

2018

Dilili in Paris

as Director

2000

1992

1981

1974

The Tobacconist

as Director

1981

Beyond Oil

as Director

1992

1980

1992

Tales of the Night

as Screenplay

1992

1992

2008

The Wedding Guest

as Screenplay

2008

2020

2020

1998

1974

The Tobacconist

as Screenplay

2000

1989

Icare

as Director

1989

Icare

as Decorator

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