Jean-Pierre Jeunet (September 3, 1953) is a French film director, screenwriter, and producer. A former animator, his movies are marked by quirky, slapstick humor, alongside surrealist visuals, mixing elements of fantasy, realism and science fiction either to create idealized realities or to give relevance to mundane situations. With Marc Caro, he co-directed the feature films Delicatessen (1991), with Dominique Pinon, Marie-Laure Dougnac, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Karin Viard, Rufus, Ticky Holgado, Sylvie Laguna, Jacques Mathou, Jean-Francois Perrier, Anne-Marie Pisani, Howard Vernon, and Chick Ortega; and The City of Lost Children (1995), with Ron Perlman, Daniel Emilfork, Judith Vittet, Pinon, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Geneviève Brunet, Odile Mallet, Mireille Mossé, Serge Merlin, François Hadji-Lazaro, Rufus, Holgado, Jean-Louis Trintignant. He made his solo and English directing debut with Alien Resurrection (1997), with Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, and Perlman, Dan Hadeya, J.E. Freeman, Brad Douriff, and Michael Wincott.
Jeunet achieved his biggest success with the release of Amélie (2001), with Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus, Lorella Cravotta, Serge Merlin, Jamel Debbouze, Claire Maurier, Clotilde Mollet, Isabelle Nanty, Pinon, Artus de Penguern, Yolande Moreau, Urbain Cancelier, and Maurice Bénichou; gaining international acclaim and reaching BBC’s 100 Greatest Films of the 21st Century. Widely regarded as one of the most influential and important directors in modern French cinema, his critical and commercial success earned him three BAFTA Awards for Best Direction and two Academy Award nominations.
Other films include A Very Long Engagement (2004), with Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Marion Cotillard, Pinon, Chantal Neuwirth, André Dussolier, Ticky Holgado, and Jodie Foster; Micmacs (2009), with Dany Boon, Yolande Moreau, André Dussollier, Nicolas Marié, Julie Ferrier, Omar Sy, Pinon, Marie-Julie Baup, Michel Crémadès, Jean-Pierre Marielle, and Urbain Cancelier; The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet (2013), Helena Bonham Carter, Judy Davis, Callum Keith Rennie, Kyle Catlett, Niamh Wilson, Jakob Davies, Rick Mercer, Pinon, and Julian Richings; and Bigbug (2022), with Elsa Zylberstein, Isabelle Nanty, Youssef Hajdi, Alban Lenoir, François Levantal, and Pinon.
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