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Jean-Claude Carrière

Jean-Claude Carrière

Birthday: 1931-09-17 | Place of Birth: 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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2025
Alexandre Trannoy - L’Œuvre invisible

as    Self (archive footage)

2019
Mostashregh

as    Himself

2019
Francisco de Goya: The Dream of Reason

as    Self - Writer

2018
The Collection

as    Monsieur Klein

2018
Scenes from A Separation

as    Self

2018
Searching for Ingmar Bergman

as    Self - Filmmaker

2017
2016
Borsalino City

as    Self - Scriptwriter

2015
2013
2011
2011
Carrière, 250 Meters

as    Self

2011
Certified Copy

as    The Man at the Square

2010
And the blue sky

as    Himself

2010
Il était une fois... « King Kong »

as    Self (scénariste)

2006
Avida

as    Le richa paranoïaque

2006
The Secret Book

as    Pierre Reymond

2006
2005
2004
2003
Gala

as    Self

2001
Bunuel and King Solomon's Table

as    David Goldman

2001
Madame De...

as    Le ministre