Born in Milano, Italy, in 1938, Bruno made his first animated short film in 1958, when he was 20: "Tapum! The weapons' story". Since then, he has produced hundreds of feature films that continue to make audiences laugh and think. His imaginative animations have been winning awards at international festivals and delighting European audiences for three decades.

In recent years, Bruno Bozzetto has turned his hand to Flash cartoons that take a wry and perceptive look at contemporary attitudes and social mores. The short examples we've featured on this page—"Neuro" and "Life" are typical of his idiosyncratic and highly original style that eschews complexity in favour of simple graphics, lively animation and non-verbal soundtracks to satirise the obsessions and problems of our neurotic and wasteful western society. Click here for Bruno's perceptive and wonderfully economical commentary on the differences between men and women!

Bruno Bozzetto was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Zagreb Animation Festival in 1998.