Jean-Claude Carrière
Writing
Born 1931-09-17 · Colombières-sur-Orb, Hérault, France
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.
Filmography
L'Œuvre invisible
Apr 8, 2026
Goya, Carrière & the Ghost of Buñuel
Sep 21, 2022
Dans les pas de Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Mar 24, 2022
Milan Kundera: From the Joke to Insignificance
Oct 21, 2021
Fifty Years Later
Dec 31, 2019
Francisco de Goya: The Dream of Reason
Dec 1, 2019
The Strange Life of Dr. Frankenstein
Oct 22, 2018
The Collection
Oct 13, 2018
Scenes from A Separation
Oct 4, 2018
Searching for Ingmar Bergman
Jul 12, 2018
Luis Buñuel, la transgression des rêves
Mar 10, 2018
Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait
May 5, 2017
Robert Doisneau: Through the Lens
Jan 19, 2017
Borsalino City
Apr 13, 2016
Eduardo Ducay: el cine que siempre estuvo ahí
May 15, 2015
Tras Nazarin: Following Nazarin
Mar 9, 2015
Los chicos de la foto
May 24, 2014
Romy Schneider, à fleur de peau
May 24, 2014
The Mystery of the King of Kinema
Jan 27, 2014
En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel
Jun 13, 2013
Professor Goudet's Lessons
Apr 6, 2013
Once Upon a Time... 'The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie'
Feb 3, 2013
Carrière, 250 Meters
Jan 1, 2011
Pierre Étaix, un destin animé
Jan 1, 2011
Il était une fois... « King Kong »
May 20, 2010
Certified Copy
May 19, 2010
And the blue sky
Feb 7, 2010
Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
Oct 8, 2009
The Last Script: Remembering Luis Buñuel
Jan 1, 2008
Avida
Sep 13, 2006