Jean-Claude Carrière profile
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Jean-Claude Carrière

17th September 1931 Colombières-sur-Orb, Hérault, France Writing

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 late French films.

58 Movies 12 TV Shows 79 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

Avida poster
Avida 13th September 2006 as Le richa paranoïaque
The Associate poster
The Associate 22nd August 1979 as Un homme présent à la lecture du testament
The Associate poster
The Associate 22nd August 1979 as Un homme à la lecture du testament (uncredited)
The Suitor poster
The Suitor 12th November 1962 as TV presenter (uncredited)