Michèle Cournoyer (born November 14, 1943) is a Canadian animator who on 1 March 2017 received a Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts for her body of work.
(L'Homme et l'enfant), came about when a friend had a baby and Cournoyer, fascinated by the relationship between parent and child, created a photography flip book that would evolve into this film.
Upon returning to Quebec, she worked in film as a set designer, art director, costume designer and screenwriter, with credits on such films as Mireille Dansereau’s La vie rêvée (1972) and L’arrache-coeur (1979), as well as Gilles Carle’s La Mort d’un bûcheron (1973).
[3][4] In 2015, she was the subjective of a special retrospective and art exhibition at the Ottawa International Animation Film Festival.
[3] On February 27, Cournoyer was announced as a recipient of a 2017 Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts.