Мишель Осело

French writer, character designer, storyboard artist and director of animated films and television programs 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 Cesars and British Academy Film Awards among others and he was made a chevalier of the Legion d'honneur on 23 October 2009, presented to him by Agnes 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.