Pierre Hébert

Pierre Hébert (born January 19, 1944) is a Canadian animator from Montreal, Quebec, most noted for his 1996 feature film The Human Plant (La Plante humaine).

He has also had occasional acting roles, notably in Jean Pierre Lefebvre's films The Revolutionary (Le Revolutionnaire) and My Eye (Mon œil).

Awards His early short film Op Hop - Hop Op was the winner of the award for Best Short Film at the 1967 Montreal International Film Festival.

The Human Plant won the Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma at the Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois in 1997.

He is a two-time Genie Award nominee for Best Animated Short, receiving nods at the 18th Genie Awards in 1997 for Under the Weather (À l'ombre), and at the 23rd Genie Awards in 2003 for Pirouette, and a three-time Jutra Award/Prix Iris nominee for Best Animated Short Film, with nods at the 14th Jutra Awards in 2012 for Rivière au Tonnerre, the 15th Jutra Awards in 2013 for Triptych 2 (Triptyque 2), and the 21st Quebec Cinema Awards in 2019 for But One Bird Sang Not (Mais un oiseau ne chantait pas).

He was the 2004 recipient of the Prix Albert-Tessier for lifetime achievement in Quebec cinema.

In 2024 he was the subject of Scratches of Life: The Art of Pierre Hébert (Graver l'homme: arrêt sur Pierre Hébert), a documentary film about his career by Loïc Darses.

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