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Ernest & Celestine

Ernest & Celestine
Ernest & Celestine poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Stéphane Aubier
Vincent Patar
Benjamin Renner
Produced by Didier Brunner
Henri Magalon
Vincent Tavier
Written by Daniel Pennac
Starring Lambert Wilson
Pauline Brunner
Music by Vincent Courtois
Cinematography Stéphane Aubier
Vincent Patar
Edited by Fabienne Alvarez-Giro
Production
company
La Parti Productions
Les Armateurs
Distributed by StudioCanal (France)
Cinéart (Belgium)
Release date
  • 23 May 2012 (2012-05-23) (Cannes)
  • 12 December 2012 (2012-12-12) (France)
  • 19 December 2012 (2012-12-19) (Belgium)
Running time
79 minutes
Country France
Belgium
Luxembourg
Language French
Budget 8.9 million
Box office $8.1 million

Ernest & Celestine (French: Ernest et Célestine) is a 2012 animated comedy-drama film directed by Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar and Benjamin Renner. The film is based on a series of children's books of the same name published by the Belgian author and illustrator Gabrielle Vincent. The film was selected to be screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, as part of the TIFF Kids programme at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival and at the 2013 Hong Kong International Film Festival. It was selected for the grand competition at feature film edition of the 2013 World festival of animated film Animafest Zagreb and was screened as the opening film. The film was released in the United States in 2013 by GKIDS. There is also an English dub that was released on 28 February 2014, with the voices of Forest Whitaker, Mackenzie Foy, Lauren Bacall, Paul Giamatti, William H. Macy, Megan Mullally, Nick Offerman and Jeffrey Wright. The film received widespread critical acclaim, and became the first animated film to win the Magritte Award for Best Film. It was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 86th Academy Awards but it lost to Disney's Frozen.


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