
Guillaume Laurant
Highest Rated: 96% I Lost My Body (2019)
Lowest Rated: 72% Micmacs (2009)
Birthday: Not Available
Birthplace: Not Available
A screenwriter with an eye for the unusual, it's no wonder the French-born Guillaume Laurant has spent much of his career collaborating with noted surrealist writer/director Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Oddly enough, though, Laurant's connection with Jeunet came mostly by chance; after dropping out of school, drifting from job to job, and even serving a bit in the army, Laurant says he wrote a screenplay and sent it to Jeunet on a whim, after the bizarre cannibal-themed international hit "Delicatessen (1991)," co-directed by Jeunet with Marc Caro, struck a chord with him. Jeunet saw something in the aspiring writer's work, and the two collaborated on another dystopian fantasy: the renowned "The City of Lost Children (1995)." Six years later, after working with director Diane Bertrand on the puzzle-like "Un Samedi sur la Terre (1996)," Laurant reteamed with Jeunet for the dreamy love story "Amelie," another international sensation that scored Laurant an Academy Award nomination and a BAFTA for Best Original Screenplay. Two more well-regarded Jeunet works followed, the similarly dreamy "A Very Long Engagement (2004)" and "Micmacs (2009)," along with a handful of other credits involving different directors. In addition, the word-loving Laurant has published two small novels and conducted screenwriting seminars at film festivals.
Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
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96% | 83% | I Lost My Body | Screenwriter | - | 2019 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Scent of Mandarin | Writer | - | 2015 |
76% | 70% | The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet | Screenwriter | $176.1K | 2013 |
No Score Yet | 35% | The Man Who Laughs | Screenwriter | - | 2012 |
72% | 74% | Micmacs | Screenwriter | $1.3M | 2009 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | In Your Image | Writer | - | 2004 |
No Score Yet | 81% | Strange Gardens | Writer | - | 2003 |
89% | 95% | Amelie From Montmartre |
Writer, Dialogue |
$33.2M | 2001 |
79% | 90% | The City of Lost Children | Writer | $1.9M | 1995 |
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