Raoul Servais (1 May 1928 - 17 March 2023) was a Belgian filmmaker, animator, and comics artist. He was born in Ostend, Belgium, and is a fundamental figure of the Belgian animation scene, as well as the founder of the animation faculty of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK). Servais received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the World Festival of Animated Film - Animafest Zagreb in 2016. In total, Servais received about 60 film prizes. Homages with retrospectives were organized in Paris, Madrid, Istanbul, Montreal, New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Rio de Janeiro and St Petersburg. He is best known for the 1979 animated film, Harpya for which he won a Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. At the 9th Magritte Awards, he received an Honorary Magritte Award from the Académie André Delvaux.
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1 May 1928 Ostend, Belgium
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17 March 2023 (aged 94)
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Zodiac | Taurus |
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