Question 1

True or false: The film was nominated for two Academy Awards, including Best Animated Feature.

Accepted Answer

True. True. It was nominated for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song ("Belleville Rendez-vous") at the 76th Academy Awards, losing to Finding Nemo.

Question 2

True or false: The Tour de France cyclists in the film were voiced by real professional riders.

Accepted Answer

False. False. The cyclists were animated and silent during races. Any grunts or sounds were performed by voice actors, not real Tour de France athletes.

Question 3

True or false: The movie has almost no dialogue, with fewer than 50 spoken words in total.

Accepted Answer

True. True. Director Sylvain Chomet intentionally minimized dialogue, relying on visual storytelling and music. The film contains only about 58 spoken words, mostly from background radio and TV.

Question 4

True or false: The character of the dog Bruno was inspired by the director’s own pet dachshund.

Accepted Answer

True. True. Sylvain Chomet owned a dachshund that inspired Bruno's personality, including his obsessive barking at trains and his dream sequences.

Question 5

True or false: The film was entirely hand-drawn, with no computer animation used whatsoever.

Accepted Answer

False. False. While it uses traditional hand-drawn 2D animation, computers were used for coloring, compositing, and some background effects.

Question 6

True or false: The mafia villains in the film are modeled after a real organized crime group in Montreal.

Accepted Answer

False. False. The villains are a parody of the French mafia, but no specific real group was used. Their design was inspired by 1950s gangster stereotypes.

Question 7

True or false: The frog sound effects in the film were made by recording actual frogs and slowing down the audio.

Accepted Answer

True. True. Sound designer Laurent Kossiga recorded real frog croaks and manipulated the pitch and speed to create the film's unique frog sounds.

Question 8

True or false: The Triplets of Belleville are based on a real 1920s jazz singing trio from Paris.

Accepted Answer

False. False. The Triplets are entirely fictional creations of Sylvain Chomet. No such famous trio existed, though their style evokes the 1920s jazz age.

The Triplets of Belleville Trivia Questions