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Jean-Claude Carrière
- Born September 17, 1931 in Colombières-sur-Orb, Hérault, France
- Died February 8, 2021
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).
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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 Gate2018
Belle de Jour1967
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie1972
A Bigger Splash2015
Cyrano de Bergerac1990
Birth2004
The Swimming Pool1969
The Tin Drum1979
Filmography
- TBAThe Arbitrariness of DesireFilmHimself
- TBAMicromeoFilmWriter
- 2026L'Œuvre invisibleFilmSelf
- 2023The PloughFilmScreenplay
- 2022Land of DreamsFilmWriter
- 2022Goya, Carrière & the Ghost of BuñuelFilmSelf
- 2022Dans les pas de Jean-Paul RappeneauFilmSelf
- 2022Celebrating Laughter: The Life and Films of Colin HigginsFilmSelf
- 2021The CrusadeFilmWriter, In Memory Of
- 2021Milan Kundera: From the Joke to InsignificanceFilmSelf - Screenwriter
- 2020The Salt of TearsFilmDialogue, Screenplay
- 2019Francisco de Goya: The Dream of ReasonFilmSelf - Writer
- 2019MostashreghFilmSelf
- 2019Fifty Years LaterFilmSelf
- 2018At Eternity's GateFilmWriter
- 2018A Faithful ManFilmWriter
- 2018Searching for Ingmar BergmanFilmSelf - Filmmaker
- 2018The Strange Life of Dr. FrankensteinFilmSelf
- 2018The CollectionFilmMonsieur Klein
- 2018Luis Buñuel, la transgression des rêvesFilmSelf
- 2018Scenes from A SeparationFilmSelf
- 2017Lover for a DayFilmScreenplay
- 2017Julian Schnabel: A Private PortraitFilmSelf
- 2017Robert Doisneau: Through the LensFilmSelf
- 2016Borsalino CityFilmSelf - Scriptwriter
- 2015A Bigger SplashFilmAdaptation, Dialogue
- 2015In the Shadow of WomenFilmWriter
- 2015Tras Nazarin: Following NazarinFilmSelf
- 2015Eduardo Ducay: el cine que siempre estuvo ahíFilmSelf
- 2015The Petrov FileFilmWriter
- 2014The Mystery of the King of KinemaFilmSelf
- 2014Los chicos de la fotoFilmSelf
- 2014Romy Schneider, à fleur de peauFilmSelf
- 2013The Patience StoneFilmScreenplay
- 2013En ningún lugar, Don Luis BuñuelFilmSelf
- 2013Professor Goudet's LessonsFilmSelf
- 2013Once Upon a Time... 'The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie'FilmSelf
- 2012The Artist and the ModelFilmScreenplay
- 2012Harold et MaudeFilmWriter
- 2011Memories of My Melancholy WhoresFilmScreenplay
- 2011Pierre Étaix, un destin animéFilmSelf
- 2011Carrière, 250 MetersFilmSelf, Screenplay
- 2010Certified CopyFilmThe Man at the Square
- 2010And the blue skyFilmHimself
- 2010Il était une fois... « King Kong »FilmSelf (scénariste)
- 2010Miloš FormanFilmSelf
- 2009Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…FilmSelf
- 2008The Last Script: Remembering Luis BuñuelFilmSelf
- 2007UlzhanFilmScenario Writer
- 2007RitualsFilmSelf
- 2006Goya's GhostsFilmScreenplay
- 2006AvidaFilmLe richa paranoïaque
- 2006Belle ToujoursFilmThanks
- 2006Marie-Antoinette, la véritable histoireFilmWriter
- 2006The Secret BookFilmPierre Reymond
- 2006Una belleza nuevaSeriesSelf
- 2006Emotional History: The Making of 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being'FilmSelf
- 2006Un Ange dans les marécagesFilmSelf
- 2005Buñuel: Atheist Thanks to GodFilmSelf
- 2005Une promenade parmi les ombresFilmHimself
- 2004BirthFilmScreenplay
- 2004The Filmmaker and the LabyrinthFilmSelf
- 2003Les ThibaultSeriesMaître Roubiot
- 2003GalaFilmSelf
- 2003Un film et son époqueSeriesSelf
- 2002Letter from an Unknown WomanFilmWriter
- 2002Ruy BlasFilmScreenplay
- 2002The Battle of HernaniFilmWriter
- 2002Biblioteca MindlinFilm
- 2001Bunuel and King Solomon's TableFilmDavid Goldman
- 2001Madame De...FilmLe ministre, Writer
- 2000SalsaFilmWriter
- 2000Speaking of BuñuelFilmSelf
- 2000BéréniceFilmWriter
- 2000Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comèteFilmSelf
- 2000Buñuel in HollywoodFilmSelf
- 1999Broken DollsFilmStory
- 1998Vivement dimancheSeriesSelf
- 1998War in the HighlandsFilmWriter
- 1998ClarissaFilmWriter