Sylvain Chomet

What strikes me about Sylvain Chomet is how stubbornly hand-drawn his vision is in an age of computer animation. He came up through comics before films, and you can feel that draftsman's discipline in every frame. His European Film Award for Best Animated Feature in 2010, for The Illusionist, confirmed what The Triplets of Belleville already hinted at: he's a director who tells stories almost without dialogue, leaning on movement and design instead. I find that confidence rare. The French listing here even calls him an architectural drafter, and honestly that fits, his films feel built rather than merely sketched, precise and melancholic at once.

Name (English)

Sylvain Chomet

Name (Japanese)

シルヴァン・ショメ

Reading

しるゔぁん・しょめ

Born

November 10, 1963 (age 62)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Rabbit

Origin

Maisons-Laffitte, Yvelines, France

Occupation

architectural drafter / cartoonist / film director / screenwriter / animator

Awards & achievements

• 2010 European Film Award for Best Animated Feature Film
• American Choreography Awards

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B7%E3%83%AB%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A7%E3%83%A1

Tags

• Yvelines
• architectural drafter
• cartoonist
• film director

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.