Sylvain Chomet
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Sylvain Chomet (1963 - ) is a French animator and film director. Born in Maisons-Lafitte, France, he studied art at high-school until he graduated in 1982. In 1986 he published his first comic, Secrets of the Dragonfly.
Chomet moved to London in 1988 to work as an animator at the Richard Purdum studio. In September of that year, he established a freelance practise, working on commercials for clients such as Principality, Renault, Swinton and Swissair.
In 1991, Chomet started work on his first animated film La Vieille Dame et les Pigeons (The Old Lady and the Pigeons), with backgrounds designed by Nicolas De Crécy.
The following year, he wrote the script for a science-fiction comic called The Bridge In Mud.
1993 saw Chomet writing the story for Léon-la-Came, which was drawn by Nicolas De Crécy for À Suivre magazine. This was published in 1995 and won the René Goscinny Prize in 1996.
Since 1993, Chomet has been based in Canada. During 1995 and 1996, he finished work on The Old Lady and the Pigeons. The short film won him a BAFTA, the Grand Prize at the Annecy Festival, the Cartoon d'Or prize, as well as the Audience Prize and Jury Prize at the Angers Premiers Plans Festival. It also received an Oscar nomination for best animated short film.
In 1997, Chomet published Ugly, Poor, and Sick, again with Nicolas De Crécy. This won them the Alph-Art Best Comic Prize at the Angoulême Comic Strip Festival.
His feature-length animated film, Les Triplettes de Belleville (The Triplets of Belleville, or Belleville Rendez-vous in the UK) was also nominated for an Oscar in 2003, and introduced Chomet's name to a much wider audience.
He is said to be currently working on another animated feature film, Attila Marcel, as well as two other projects; The Tale of Despereaux and Barbacoa.
External links
- IMDB entry (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0158984/).
- Belleville Rendez-vous Official Site (http://www.bellevillerendezvous.com/).
- Sylvain Chomet interview (http://mag.awn.com/index.php?article_no=1923)fr:Sylvain Chomet