Jean-Claude Carrière

Writing · Born 1931-09-17 in Colombières-sur-Orb, Hérault, France

Biography

Jean-Claude Carrière (17 September 1931 – 8 February 2021) was a French novelist, screenwriter and actor. He received an Academy Award for best short film for co-writing Heureux Anniversaire (1963), and was later conferred an Honorary Oscar in 2014. He was nominated for the Academy Award three other times for his work in The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), That Obscure Object of Desire (1977), and The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988). He also won a César Award for Best Original Screenplay in The Return of Martin Guerre (1983). Carrière was an alumnus of the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud and was president of La Fémis, the French state film school that he helped establish. He was noted as a frequent collaborator with Luis Buñuel on the screenplays of the latter's…

Filmography

• Certified Copy as The Man at the Square
• Diary of a Chambermaid as Le curé
• Bunuel and King Solomon's Table as David Goldman
• The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel as Self
• Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète as Self
• The Last Script: Remembering Luis Buñuel as Self
• Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait as Self
• Milan Kundera: From the Joke to Insignificance as Self - Screenwriter
• Carrière, 250 Meters as Self
• Dans les pas de Jean-Paul Rappeneau as Self

TV

• Un film et son époque as Self
• Una belleza nueva as Self
• Nulle part ailleurs as Self
• Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
• Champs-Elysées as Self
• Apostrophes as Self
• Vivement dimanche as Self
• Les Thibault as Maître Roubiot