Jean-Claude Carrière
Born:September 17, 1931
Place of Birth:Colombières-sur-Orb, Hérault, France
Died:February 8, 2021
Known For:Writing
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.
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Filmography
Acting
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The Man at the Square
2010
Production
Exploits of a Young Don Juan
Writer
1986
The Tin Drum
Screenplay
1979
Belle de Jour
Screenplay
1967
That Obscure Object of Desire
Screenplay
1977
Birth
Screenplay
2004
A Bigger Splash
Dialogue
2015
At Eternity's Gate
Writer
2018
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Screenplay
1972
The Swimming Pool
Writer
1969
The Phantom of Liberty
Writer
1974
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Screenplay
1988
Valmont
Screenplay
1989
Goya's Ghosts
Screenplay
2006