---
name: "Guillaume Laurant"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/guillaume-laurant"
fi1m_id: "guillaume-laurant"
imdb_id: "nm0491011"
tmdb_id: 2420
wikidata_id: "Q1915951"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "22 November 1961"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T20:30:05.053247+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Guillaume Laurant

## Identity

Guillaume Laurant

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/guillaume-laurant
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** guillaume-laurant
- **IMDb ID:** nm0491011
- **TMDB ID:** 2420
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1915951
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1915951, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0491011/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2420

Writer. Born 22 November 1961 in Saint-Quentin, Aisne, France.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 22 November 1961, Saint-Quentin, Aisne, France
- **Active:** 2001–2004
- **Frequently works with:** [Audrey Tautou](https://film.one/person/audrey-tautou.md), [Jean-Pierre Jeunet](https://film.one/person/jean-pierre-jeunet.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1915951, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0491011/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2420

## Coming up

- *The Green Eyes* (2026-11-11), Screenplay
- *Violette* (2026-12-09), Screenplay

## Biography

Guillaume Laurant is a French screenwriter and novelist. Born on 22 November 1961 in Saint-Quentin, Aisne, he is an autodidact who began by writing for the theatre after various jobs including as a waiter, courier and delivery driver, and a period of military service.

He first collaborated with director Jean-Pierre Jeunet on additional dialogue for *La Cité des enfants perdus* (1995). Laurant went on to co-write the screenplays for several of Jeunet's films, including *Amélie* (2001), *A Very Long Engagement* (2004), *Micmacs* (2009) and *The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet* (2013). He adapted his own novel *Happy Hand* for the animated film *I Lost My Body* (2019).

Laurant has received awards for his screenwriting, including a BAFTA and a Prix Lumière for *Amélie* (2001), as well as an Annie Award for *I Lost My Body*.

*Sources: fr.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Amélie* (2001), Fi1m 82, Dialogue, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/amelie.md)

## Complete filmography (18)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Violette* (2026), Screenplay, Dialogue
- *The Green Eyes* (2026), Screenplay
- *Bigbug* (2022), Dialogue, Screenplay
- *I Lost My Body* (2019), Novel, Screenplay
- *Raoul Taburin* (2019), Screenplay
- *The Scent of Mandarin* (2015), Screenplay
- *The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet* (2013), Screenplay
- *The Man Who Laughs* (2012), Screenplay, Adaptation
- *Micmacs* (2009), Writer
- *Call Me Elisabeth* (2006), Writer
- *Locked Out* (2006), Writer
- *A Very Long Engagement* (2004), Screenplay
- *In Your Image* (2004), Writer
- *Strange Gardens* (2003), Writer
- *Amélie* (2001), Dialogue, Screenplay — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/amelie.md)
- *Inside the Making of - Amélie* (2001), Writer
- *A Saturday on Earth* (1996), Photographe, Writer
- *The City of Lost Children* (1995), Additional Dialogue — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/the-city-of-lost-children.md)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2002: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (nominated), for *Amélie*

### Other awards — 1 won, 1 nominated

- European Film Award for Best Animated Feature Film 2019: European Film Award for Best Animated Feature Film (nominated), for *I Lost My Body*
- Lumière Award for Best Screenplay 2002: Lumière Award for Best Screenplay (won), for *Amélie*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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