Jean-Claude Carrière
Writing
- Born
- September 17, 1931 · Colombières-sur-Orb, Hérault, France
- Died
- February 8, 2021 (age 89)
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.
Known for
At Eternity's Gate
November 15, 2018
Belle de Jour
May 24, 1967
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
September 15, 1972
A Bigger Splash
November 26, 2015
Cyrano de Bergerac
March 28, 1990
Birth
October 29, 2004
The Swimming Pool
January 31, 1969
The Tin Drum
May 2, 1979
Goya's Ghosts
November 8, 2006
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
February 5, 1988
That Obscure Object of Desire
August 17, 1977
Sommersby
February 5, 1993
Behind the camera125
- 2023The Plough Screenplay
- 2022Land of Dreams Writer
- 2021The Crusade Writer
- 2020The Salt of Tears Dialogue, Screenplay
- 2018A Faithful Man Writer
- 2018At Eternity's Gate Writer
- 2017Lover for a Day Screenplay
- 2015A Bigger Splash Adaptation, Dialogue
- 2015In the Shadow of Women Writer
- 2015The Petrov File Writer