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 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.

Directed

1. Kirikou and the Sorceress (1998) — Director
2. Azur & Asmar: The Princes' Quest (2006) — Director
3. Kirikou and the Wild Beasts (2005) — Director
4. Princes and Princesses (2000) — Director
5. Kirikou and the Men and Women (2012) — Director
6. Dilili in Paris (2018) — Director
7. Tales of the Night (2011) — Director
8. The Black Pharaoh, the Savage and the Princess (2022) — Director
9. Ivan Tsarevitch and the Changing Princess (2016) — Director
10. The Three Inventors (1980) — Director
11. The Prince of Jewels (1992) — Director
12. Tales of the Night (1992) — Director
13. Dragons and Princesses (2010) — Director
14. The Princess of Diamonds (2000) — Director
15. The Legend of the Poor Hunchback (1982) — Director
16. The Maid and the Magician (1992) — Director
17. The Hidden Treasures of Michel Ocelot (2008) — Director
18. Ciné si (1989) — Director
19. The Dancing Shepherdess (1992) — Director
20. The Four Wishes of the Villein and of His Wife (1987) — Director
21. The Wedding Guest (2008) — Director
22. Gideon (1976) — Director
23. The Little Circus and Other Tales (1994) — Director
24. Yoru no tobari no monogatari: Samenai yume (2013) — Director
25. Daughters of Equality (1981) — Director
26. Beyond Oil (1981) — Director
27. Pablo–Paris–Satie (2020) — Director
28. The Insensitive Princess (1983) — Director
29. Icare (1989) — Director
30. The Three-Eared Rabbits (2026) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Tales of the Night (2011) — Mélonghé (voice)
2. Ivan Tsarevitch and the Changing Princess (2016) — Matelot 2 / Le médecin (voice) (archive footage)
3. The Three Inventors (1980) — Narrator (voice)
4. Ghibli and The Miyazaki Mystery (2005) — Self - Interviewee
5. The Legend of the Poor Hunchback (1982) — (Voice)
6. The Hidden Treasures of Michel Ocelot (2008)
7. After Midnight (1983) — (voice)
8. The Four Wishes of the Villein and of His Wife (1987) — The Villein (Voice)
9. Yoru no tobari no monogatari: Samenai yume (2013) — Various Characters (voice) (archive footage)
10. La Belle Époque de Michel Ocelot (2021) — Self (voice)
11. The Insensitive Princess (1983) — Narrator (Voice)
12. Lele - Il magico mondo di Emanuele Luzzati (2021) — Self