Jean-Claude Carrière
Writing

Jean-Claude Carrière

Born 17 September 1931 · Colombières-sur-Orb, Hérault, France · Died 8 February 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). 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
Belle de Jour
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Cyrano de Bergerac
Birth
The Swimming Pool
The Tin Drum
Goya's Ghosts
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
That Obscure Object of Desire
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The Phantom of Liberty
The Plough
Land of Dreams
The Crusade
The Salt of Tears
The Collection
At Eternity's Gate
A Faithful Man
Lover for a Day
In the Shadow of Women
The Petrov File
The Patience Stone
The Artist and the Model
Harold et Maude
Carrière, 250 Meters
Memories of My Melancholy Whores
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Avida
Goya's Ghosts
Marie-Antoinette, la véritable histoire
Birth
Ruy Blas
Letter from an Unknown Woman
The Battle of Hernani
Bunuel and King Solomon's Table
Madame De...
Salsa
Bérénice
Broken Dolls
War in the Highlands
Clarissa
Les paradoxes de Buñuel
Chinese Box
Golden Boy
The Ogre
The Night and the Moment
The Horseman on the Roof
La duchesse de Langeais
Dispute in Valladolid
The Return of Casanova
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
Bouvard et Pécuchet
May Fools
Cyrano de Bergerac
Hard to Be a God
The Mahabharata
Valmont
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Possessed
The Bengali Night
Exploits of a Young Don Juan
The Young Girl and Hell
Max My Love
L'unique
The Discoveries of a Modern Couple
Sea Workers
Vive les femmes !
Swann in Love
L'aide-mémoire
Danton
The General of the Dead Army
Credo
Side Roads
The Tragedy of Carmen
The Return of Martin Guerre
Antonieta
L'Indiscrétion
The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan
Godard's Passion
L'Amour nu
Circle of Deceit
Black Mirror
Every Man for Himself
The Associate
The Tin Drum
Jig-Saw
Return to the Beloved
These Kids Are Grown-Ups
Beef Cattle
Surprise Sock
Butterfly on the Shoulder
Le Franc-tireur
That Obscure Object of Desire
Julie pot-de-colle
The Gang
The Garden of Torment
The Game of Solitaire
Serious as Pleasure
Weak Spot
Leonor
Flesh of the Orchid
The Woman with Red Boots
The Phantom of Liberty
Dorothea's Revenge
Life Size
France, Incorporated
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
The Monk
The Right to Love
Liza
The Outside Man
The Wedding Ring
A Little Sun in Cold Water
Taking Off
Borsalino
The Milky Way
The Nail Clippers
Le Grand Amour
The Swimming Pool
For a Distant Love
Belle de Jour
The Thief of Paris
Attack of the Robots
The Diabolical Dr. Z
As Long as You've Got Your Health
Hotel Paradiso
Viva Maria!
Yoyo
Bestiary of Love
Diary of a Chambermaid
Happy Anniversary
Insomnia
The Suitor
Rupture
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