Raoul Servais

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 was best known for the animated film, Harpya, for which he won a Palme d'Or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival. Servais received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the World Festival of Animated Film - Animafest Zagreb in 2016. At the 9th Magritte Awards, he received an Honorary Magritte Award from the Académie André Delvaux.

In total, Servais won 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.

Servais died at his home in Leffinge on 17 March 2023, at the age of 94.

Filmography

 * 1960: Harbour Lights (Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Ghent)
 * 1963: The False Note (film
 * 1965: Chromophobia (1966 film)
 * 1968: Siren
 * 1969: Goldframe
 * 1970: To Speak or Not to Speak
 * 1971: Operation X-70
 * 1973: Pegasus
 * 1976: Halewyn's Song
 * 1979: Harpya (Palme d'Or for Best Short Film at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival)
 * 1994: Taxandria (Diploma of Merit at the 4th Kecskemét Animation Film Festival
 * 1998: Nocturnal Butterflies
 * 2001: Atraksion
 * 2005: Winter Days (3' sequence)
 * 2016: Tank