Jean-Claude Carrière
Writing
Born September 17, 1931 · 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.
Acting (64)
Alexandre Trannoy - L’Œuvre invisible
2026
Goya, Carrière & the Ghost of Buñuel
2022
Dans les pas de Jean-Paul Rappeneau
2022
Milan Kundera: From the Joke to Insignificance
2021
Fifty Years Later
2019
Francisco de Goya: The Dream of Reason
2019
Mostashregh
2019
The Strange Life of Dr. Frankenstein
2018
The Collection
2018
Scenes from A Separation
2018
Searching for Ingmar Bergman
2018
Luis Buñuel, la transgression des rêves
2018
Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait
2017
Robert Doisneau: Through the Lens
2017
Borsalino City
2016
Eduardo Ducay: el cine que siempre estuvo ahí
2015
Tras Nazarin: Following Nazarin
2015
Los chicos de la foto
2014
Romy Schneider, à fleur de peau
2014
The Mystery of the King of Kinema
2014
En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel
2013
Professor Goudet's Lessons
2013
Once Upon a Time... 'The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie'
2013
Carrière, 250 Meters
2011
Pierre Étaix, un destin animé
2011
Miloš Forman
2010
Il était une fois... « King Kong »
2010
Certified Copy
2010
And the blue sky
2010
Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
2009
The Last Script: Remembering Luis Buñuel
2008
Rituals
2007
The Secret Book
2006
Avida
2006
Emotional History: The Making of 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being'
2006
Un Ange dans les marécages
2006
Buñuel: Atheist Thanks to God
2005
Une promenade parmi les ombres
2005
The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth
2004
Gala
2003
Biblioteca Mindlin
2002
Bunuel and King Solomon's Table
2001
Madame De...
2001
Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète
2000
Speaking of Buñuel
2000
Buñuel in Hollywood
2000
Les paradoxes de Buñuel
1998
The Night and the Moment
1995
Bouvard et Pécuchet
1990
Vive les femmes !
1984
The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel
1984
Passion, le travail et l'amour: Introduction à un scénario
1982
L'Amour nu
1981
The Associate
1979
These Kids Are Grown-Ups
1979
Photo-souvenir
1978
Surprise Sock
1978
The Game of Solitaire
1976
The Garden of Torment
1976
A Little Sun in Cold Water
1971
The Wedding Ring
1971
The Milky Way
1969
Diary of a Chambermaid
1964
The Suitor
1962