Michel Ocelot, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Michel Ocelot

French writer, character designer, storyboard artist and director of animated films and television

Date of Birth: 27-Oct-1943

Place of Birth: Villefranche-sur-Mer, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

Profession: screenwriter, animator, painter, film director, director, producer

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Michel Ocelot is a French writer, 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 debut 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.