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Jean-Pierre Jeunet (born September 3, 1953) is an Academy Award-nominated French film director and screenwriter who directed the 1997 film Alien Resurrection. Other notable films Jeunet has directed include The City of Lost Children (1995), Amélie (2001) and A Very Long Engagement (2004).

Jeunet has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing (for Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain) and has won a BAFTA. For his work on Alien Resurrection, he was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Director. Notably, Jeunet has cast actor Dominique Pinon in every one of his films.

Awards and Nominations[]

Year Film Notes
1997 Alien Resurrection Nominated — Saturn Award for Best Director

Filmography[]

Year Title Notes
1991 Delicatessen With Dominique Pinon
1995 The City of Lost Children With Ron Perlman and Dominique Pinon
1997 Alien Resurrection
2001 Amélie With Dominique Pinon
2004 A Very Long Engagement With Dominique Pinon
2009 Micmacs With Dominique Pinon
2013 The Young and T.S. Prodigious Spivet With Dominique Pinon

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