
Jean-Claude Carrière
Writing
1931-09-17 - Present
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.
Credits

Exploits of a Young Don Juan

The Swimming Pool

At Eternity's Gate

Diary of a Chambermaid

A Faithful Man

The Milky Way

Borsalino

Swann in Love

The Phantom of Liberty

Liza

Taking Off

Chinese Box

The Bengali Night

The Mahabharata

Leonor

Flesh of the Orchid

Antonieta

Clarissa

Marie-Antoinette, la véritable histoire

Max My Love

Hotel Paradiso

Godard's Passion

Salsa

The Crusade

Hard to Be a God

The Young Girl and Hell

Land of Dreams

The Return of Casanova

In the Shadow of Women

Dispute in Valladolid

Beef Cattle

Credo

The Angry Man

The General of the Dead Army

L'Unique

These Kids Are Grown-Ups

Surprise Sock

Harold et Maude

Circle of Deceit

Letter from an Unknown Woman

Life Size

Return to the Beloved

As Long as You've Got Your Health

Bérénice

Serious as Pleasure

L'Indiscrétion

The Wedding Ring
Photo-souvenir

France, Incorporated

The Discoveries of a Modern Couple

Madame De...

Bestiary of Love

Side Roads

Julie pot-de-colle

Insomnia

For a Distant Love

Micromeo

Golden Boy

War in the Highlands

The Tragedy of Carmen

The Battle of Hernani

The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan

The Petrov File

Le Franc-tireur

L'aide-mémoire

La duchesse de Langeais