Michel Ocelot

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

0.20body-of-work score · ranked #2142 of 2631 directors · 1 film in our library

A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.

Born
October 27, 1943 · Villefranche-sur-Mer
Nationality
France
Work
film director, animator, screenwriter, director
Reference
Wikipedia · Wikidata
Portrait of Michel Ocelot
Boungawa · CC BY-SA 4.0

Films in our library, ranked

Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.

  1. 1

    2006 · France / Italy / Spain · fantasy, adventure, animation

    Letterboxd Top 250 #183

    0.201 citation

Complete filmography

All 16 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.

  • 1974The Tobacconist
  • 1980Les 3 inventeurs
  • 1981Daughters of Equality
  • 1982The Legend of the Poor Hunchback
  • 1986The Four Wishes of the Villein and of His Wife
  • 1992Tales of the Night
  • 1998Kirikou and the Sorceress
  • 2000Princes et princesses
  • 2005Kirikou and the Wild Beasts
  • 2006Azur & Asmar: The Princes' Quest
  • 2011Tales of the Night
  • 2012Kirikou and the Men and Women
  • 2016Ivan Tsarevitch and the Changing Princess
  • 2018Dilili in Paris
  • 2022The Black Pharaoh, the Savage and the Princess
  • 2026Les Lapins Trois-Oreilles