Jean-Michel Frodon (born 20 September 1953 in Paris) is a journalist, critic and historian of cinema.

Born Jean-Michel Billard, he writes with a pseudonym borrowed from Frodo of The Lord of the Rings.

In 1983, he became a journalist and film critic for the weekly periodical Le Point, of which his father, Pierre Billard, also a journalist and a film critic, was one of the founders and chief editors.

In 2003 he became head editor of Cahiers du cinémas four years after its purchase by Le Monde.

He has taught at Pantheon-Sorbonne University and École Normale Supérieure, and currently teaches at Sciences Po Paris.