Film Production and Appearances
He has produced over 70 films.
He appeared on a documentary-type special feature on the DVD version of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie in which he and Stephen Hillenburg talk about all of the real-life counterparts to the sea creatures seen in the cartoon series and the movie and even some that are not in the movie. He did a similar feature for the DVD of the Disney/Pixar movie Finding Nemo.
Jean-Michel Cousteau made a new documentary series Ocean Adventures released in 2006.
In Disney's DVD release of the Pixar film Finding Nemo, Cousteau makes an appearance interacting with the characters from the film, Marlin, Nemo and Dory, and touting the need for better pollution control, showing videos of sick coral reefs.
He also appears in the IMAX documentary film Coral Reef Adventure.
Ocean Futures Society, KQED and PBS are continuing production on the Ocean Adventures series for 2007 and 2008. In October 2006, Jean-Michel Cousteau, and an expedition team that includes his son Fabien and daughter Céline, began filming along the Amazon River. Twenty years ago scientists predicted devastation and irreversible environmental damage here, and 25 years ago Jean-Michel Cousteau and his legendary father traveled with their teams the entire length of the Amazon to document, learn, and see for themselves.
In 2006, Cousteau's documentary Voyage to Kure inspired then United States President George W. Bush to protect the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, making it — with its 140,000 square miles (360,000 km2) of ocean waters, islands and atolls — one of the largest Marine Protected Areas in the world.
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