# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vincent-patar
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:02:06.768Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vincent-patar"
name: "Vincent Patar"
slug: "vincent-patar"
description: "Vincent Patar is a Belgian film director and screenwriter. In 2009 he wrote and directed the animated film A Town Called Panic along with Stéphane Aubier. It premiered at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and was the first stop-motion film to be screened at the festival. In 2013 he co-directed with Aubier and Benjamin Renner the film Ernest & Celestine, which received widespread critical acclaim. The film received three Magritte Awards, including Best Film and Best Director for Patar and Aubier. It also received a nomination at the 86th Academy Awards, in the category of Best Animated Feature."
tagline: "Belgian film director, screenwriter and animator"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/acSgTlZPq9f47FCUU0BlGjXgBW1.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1965-09-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.32
  momentum:             6
  historical:           7.679806666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0665262/"
    handle:    "nm0665262"
sources:
  - url: "https://wa.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Patar"
    title: "Vincent Patar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فنسنت باتار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فينسنت باتار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Patar"
    title: "Vincent Patar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Patar"
    title: "Vincent Patar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Patar"
    title: "Vincent Patar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Patar"
    title: "Vincent Patar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Patar"
    title: "Vincent Patar"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3559781"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/126599"
    title: "Vincent Patar"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump