Jean-Pierre Jeunet
ActivitiesActor, Director, Executive Producer, Adaptation, Screenwriter, Director of Photography, Editor, Producer, Line Producer, Producer, Production Designer, Animation
SecteurCinema
Represented byVMA
AgentBertrand De Labbey
Biography
Jean-Pierre Jeunet began his film-making career with shorts which he co-directed with artist Marc Caro, prizewinners at numerous international festivals. Their first feature film, directed in 1991, Delicatessen, met with broad success, with 1.5 million tickets sold in France. The film notably won the César for Best First Film and Best Screenplay. The duo made their second feature in 1995, The City of Lost Children, acclaimed for its highly innovative special effects. The film was widely distributed internationally, from Japan to the United States, with great success. This international recognition opened the doors of Hollywood to him, and he directed on his own in 1997 in the United States Alien: Resurrection. In 2000 Jean-Pierre Jeunet returned to France to shoot Amélie, a triumph: 5 Oscar nominations, 4 César nominations, and more than 30 million tickets sold worldwide. The film made French actress Audrey Tautou famous, who likewise stared in his following film, A Very Long Engageme...
Filmography(18)
Activities
Companies linked to the person
Contact
This content is for registered users only.
Are you a member? Please login to view content.
Media Gallery
News & awards
News (65)
Selections (4)
Cesar Awards - French film industry awards
France, 2002
Best Screenplay (Original or Adapted) : Amelie
Best Director : Amelie
Cesar Awards - French film industry awards
France, 1992
Best Screenplay (Original or Adapted) : Delicatessen
Awards (3)
Cesar Awards - French film industry awards
France, 1992
César Award for Best Original or Adapted Screenplay : Delicatessen
Delegations (19)
Rendez-vous with French Cinema in the UK
Great Britain, 2014
Director : The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
