Jean-Claude Carrière

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 late French films.

Known For

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as The Man at the Square

Diary of a Chambermaid

as Le curé

The Milky Way

as Priscillian

Avida

as Le richa paranoïaque

The Suitor

as TV presenter (uncredited)

Vive les femmes !

Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait

as Self

Searching for Ingmar Bergman

as Self - Filmmaker

Bunuel and King Solomon's Table

as David Goldman

These Kids Are Grown-Ups

as Le psychiatre (uncredited)