Jean-Claude Carrière

Writing · Born 1931-09-17 · 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

• L'Œuvre invisible (2026)
• Dans les pas de Jean-Paul Rappeneau (2022)
• Goya, Carrière & the Ghost of Buñuel (2022)
• Milan Kundera: From the Joke to Insignificance (2021)
• Fifty Years Later (2019)
• Francisco de Goya: The Dream of Reason (2019)
• Mostashregh (2019)
• Searching for Ingmar Bergman (2018)
• The Strange Life of Dr. Frankenstein (2018)
• Luis Buñuel, la transgression des rêves (2018)
• The Collection (2018)
• Scenes from A Separation (2018)
• Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait (2017)
• Robert Doisneau: Through the Lens (2017)
• Borsalino City (2016)
• Tras Nazarin: Following Nazarin (2015)
• Eduardo Ducay: el cine que siempre estuvo ahí (2015)
• The Mystery of the King of Kinema (2014)
• Los chicos de la foto (2014)
• Romy Schneider, à fleur de peau (2014)
• En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel (2013)
• Professor Goudet's Lessons (2013)
• Once Upon a Time... 'The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie' (2013)
• Carrière, 250 Meters (2011)