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