
Michel Ocelot
Directing
Born: 1943-10-27 · Villefranche-sur-Mer, French Riviera, France
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 L
🎬 Movies (30)

The Three-Eared Rabbits
2026
Director

The Black Pharaoh, the Savage and the Princess
2022
Director

Lele - Il magico mondo di Emanuele Luzzati
2021
Self

La Belle Époque de Michel Ocelot
2021
Self (voice)

Pablo–Paris–Satie
2020
Director

Dilili in Paris
2018
Director

Ivan Tsarevitch and the Changing Princess
2016
Director

Yoru no tobari no monogatari: Samenai yume
2013
Director

Kirikou and the Men and Women
2012
Director

Tales of the Night
2011
Director

The Hidden Treasures of Michel Ocelot
2008
Director

The Wedding Guest
2008
Director

Azur & Asmar: The Princes' Quest
2006
Director

Ghibli and The Miyazaki Mystery
2005
Self - Interviewee

Kirikou and the Wild Beasts
2005
Director

Princes and Princesses
2000
Director

The Princess of Diamonds
2000
Director

Kirikou and the Sorceress
1998
Director

The Little Circus and Other Tales
1994
Director

The Dancing Shepherdess
1992
Director

The Prince of Jewels
1992
Director

The Maid and the Magician
1992
Director

Tales of the Night
1992
Director

Icare
1989
Director

The Four Wishes of the Villein and of His Wife
1987
Director

After Midnight
1983
(voice)

The Legend of the Poor Hunchback
1982
Director

Daughters of Equality
1981
Director

Beyond Oil
1981
Director

The Three Inventors
1980
Director



