Jean-Claude Carrière
Writing · Born 1931-09-17 · age 89 at death · 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.
Titles
At Eternity's Gate
Belle de Jour
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
A Bigger Splash
Cyrano de Bergerac
Birth
The Swimming Pool
Goya's Ghosts
The Tin Drum
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Certified Copy
That Obscure Object of Desire
Sommersby
The Phantom of Liberty
Exploits of a Young Don Juan
Valmont
A Faithful Man
Borsalino
Diary of a Chambermaid
The Return of Martin Guerre
The Milky Way
Danton
The Horseman on the Roof
The Patience Stone
Viva Maria!
Taking Off
May Fools
The Thief of Paris
Lover for a Day
Every Man for Himself
Godard's Passion
The Outside Man
The Crusade
Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Chinese Box
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
Yoyo
In the Shadow of Women
Liza
The Artist and the Model
The Ogre
Hard to Be a God
Swann in Love
The Salt of Tears
Max My Love
The Diabolical Dr. Z
Dispute in Valladolid
The Return of Casanova
Butterfly on the Shoulder
Flesh of the Orchid
Avida
Le Grand Amour
The Suitor
Circle of Deceit
Leonor
Life Size
The Possessed
As Long as You've Got Your Health
Happy Anniversary
The Woman with Red Boots