
Jean-Claude Carrière
Born: 1931-09-17
Place of Birth: Colombières-sur-Orb, Hérault, France
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

Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète

Milan Kundera: From the Joke to Insignificance

The Last Script: Remembering Luis Buñuel

The Strange Life of Dr. Frankenstein

Surprise Sock

The Associate

The Associate

Professor Goudet's Lessons

Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait

Certified Copy

The Game of Solitaire

Madame De...

En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel

The Garden of Torment

The Collection

Borsalino City

The Suitor

Fifty Years Later

The Milky Way

Buñuel: Atheist Thanks to God

Diary of a Chambermaid

Les paradoxes de Buñuel

Avida

The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth

Vive les femmes !

And the blue sky

Buñuel in Hollywood

Romy Schneider, à fleur de peau

Scenes from A Separation

Bouvard et Pécuchet

Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…

The Arbitrariness of Desire

These Kids Are Grown-Ups

Goya, Carrière & the Ghost of Buñuel

L'Amour nu

Alexandre Trannoy - L’Œuvre invisible

Searching for Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buñuel, la transgression des rêves

Robert Doisneau: Through the Lens

Il était une fois... « King Kong »

Bunuel and King Solomon's Table

Speaking of Buñuel

Pierre Étaix, un destin animé

The Night and the Moment

The Wedding Ring

The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel

Tras Nazarin: Following Nazarin

Passion, le travail et l'amour: Introduction à un scénario

A Little Sun in Cold Water

Carrière, 250 Meters

Once Upon a Time... 'The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie'

The Mystery of the King of Kinema

Eduardo Ducay: el cine que siempre estuvo ahí

Emotional History: The Making of 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being'

Los chicos de la foto

Dans les pas de Jean-Paul Rappeneau
