

Jean-Claude Carrière
Acting
September 17, 1931
Colombières-sur-Orb, Hérault, France
February 8, 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.
The Filmography


At Eternity's Gate

The Strange Life of Dr. Frankenstein

The Collection

Scenes from A Separation

The Petrov File

The Patience Stone

The Artist and the Model

Carrière, 250 Meters

Certified Copy

The Last Script: Remembering Luis Buñuel

Marie-Antoinette, la véritable histoire

Goya's Ghosts

Buñuel: Atheist Thanks to God

Birth

Letter from an Unknown Woman

Ruy Blas

The Battle of Hernani

Bunuel and King Solomon's Table
