Writer
Jean-Claude Carrière
95 years · Colombières-sur-Orb, Hérault, France · 159 films
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 157
L'Œuvre invisible
2026 · Self
The Plough
2023 · Screenplay
Goya, Carrière & the Ghost of Buñuel
2022 · Self
On Kino Film Collection
Land of Dreams
2022 · Writer
On Kanopy
Dans les pas de Jean-Paul Rappeneau
2022 · Self
Celebrating Laughter: The Life and Films of Colin Higgins
2022 · Self
The Crusade
2021 · Writer
Milan Kundera: From the Joke to Insignificance
2021 · Self - Screenwriter
The Salt of Tears
2020 · Screenplay
On OVID
Fifty Years Later
2019 · Self
Francisco de Goya: The Dream of Reason
2019 · Self - Writer
A Faithful Man
2018 · Writer
On Kanopy
At Eternity's Gate
2018 · Writer
On Plex
The Strange Life of Dr. Frankenstein
2018 · Self
On Hoopla
The Collection
2018 · Monsieur Klein
Scenes from A Separation
2018 · Self
Searching for Ingmar Bergman
2018 · Self - Filmmaker
On OVID
Luis Buñuel, la transgression des rêves
2018 · Self
Lover for a Day
2017 · Screenplay
Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait
2017 · Self
On Kanopy
Robert Doisneau: Through the Lens
2017 · Self
Borsalino City
2016 · Self - Scriptwriter
In the Shadow of Women
2015 · Writer
On OVID
Eduardo Ducay: el cine que siempre estuvo ahí
2015 · Self