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Jean-Claude Carrière

Screenwriter / Writer / Playwright / Lyricist / Film Director / Actor | * 09/17/1931 († 89, 02/08/2021) | Colombières-sur-Orb, Hérault (France)
Jean-Claude Carrière (French: [ka.ʁjɛʁ]; 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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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Comedies | Romance / Love

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Awards & Nominations for Jean-Claude Carrière

Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film Padma Shri in Literature and Education Commander of The Legion of Honour European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award Commander of The National Order of Merit Officer of The National Order of Merit Jean-Le-Duc Award Academy Honorary Award Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay 2x Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film
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Movies with Jean-Claude Carrière as Actor(43)

as Old Bear (voice)2019 The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily
as Monsieur Klein2018 The Collection
as Himself - Filmmaker2018 Searching for Ingmar Bergman
as himself2011 Carrière, 250 Meters
as The Man at the Square2010 Certified Copy
as Le richa paranoïaque2006 Avida
as Pierre Reymond2006 The Secret Book
as himself2003 Gala
as Le ministre2001 Madame De...
as David Goldman2001 Bunuel and King Solomon's Table
as himself2000 Buñuel in Hollywood
as Il governatore1995 The Night and the Moment
as Le professeur1981 L'amour nu
as Un homme à la lecture du testament (uncredited)1979 The Associate
as Le psychiatre (uncredited)1979 Ils sont grands, ces petits
as Fournier1978 Surprise Sock
as Prof. Henri Quissard1978 Photo-souvenir
as The ship's captain1976 The Garden of Torment
as Hugues1971 The Wedding Ring
as Priscillian1969 The Milky Way
as Le curé1964 Diary of a Chambermaid
as Le présentateur TV1962 The Suitor

TV Shows/Series with Jean-Claude Carrière as Actor(6)

as himself2006 Una belleza nueva
as himself1998 Vivement dimanche
as himself1987 Nulle part ailleurs
as himself1982 Champs-Elysées
as himself1975 Apostrophes

Movies with Jean-Claude Carrière as Crew(111)

Writing/Screenplay2023 The Plough
Writing/Writer2022 Land of Dreams
Writing/Writer2021 The Crusade
Writing/Screenplay2020 The Salt of Tears
Writing/Dialogue2020 The Salt of Tears
Writing/Writer2018 At Eternity's Gate
Writing/Writer2018 A Faithful Man
Writing/Screenplay2017 Lover for a Day
Writing/Writer2015 The Petrov File
Writing/Writer2015 In the Shadow of Women
Writing/Screenplay2013 The Patience Stone
Writing/Screenplay2012 The Artist and the Model
Writing/Screenplay2011 Carrière, 250 Meters
Writing/Screenplay2011 Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Writing/Scenario Writer2007 Ulzhan
Writing/Screenplay2006 Goya's Ghosts
Crew/Thanks2006 Belle Toujours
Writing/Screenplay2004 Birth
Writing/Screenplay2002 Ruy Blas
Writing/Writer2001 Letter from an Unknown Woman
Writing/Writer2001 Madame De...
Writing/Story1999 Broken Dolls
Writing/Writer1998 Clarissa
Writing/Writer1997 Chinese Box
Writing/Writer1996 Golden Boy
Writing/Screenplay1996 The Ogre
Writing/Screenplay1995 The Night and the Moment
Writing/Screenplay1995 The Horseman on the Roof
Writing/Writer1992 Dispute in Valladolid
Writing/Writer1992 The Return of Casanova
Writing/Screenplay1991 At Play in the Fields of the Lord
Writing/Writer1990 The Mahabharata
Writing/Writer1990 Hard to Be a God
Writing/Screenplay1990 Cyrano de Bergerac
Writing/Screenplay1990 May Fools
Writing/Writer1989 Valmont
Writing/Screenplay1989 The Silent Woman
Writing/Screenplay1988 The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Writing/Screenplay1988 The Possessed
Writing/Screenplay1988 The Bengali Night
Writing/Writer1986 La jeune fille et l'enfer
Writing/Writer1986 Max My Love
Writing/Writer1986 Exploits of a Young Don Juan
Writing/Scenario Writer1986 The Wolf at the Door
Writing/Writer1984 Swann in Love
Writing/Writer1983 Credo
Writing/Screenplay1983 Danton
Writing/Writer1983 The General of the Dead Army
Writing/Adaptation1982 La Cerisaie
Writing/Writer1982 L'indiscrétion
Writing/Writer1982 Antonieta
Writing/Screenplay1982 The Return of Martin Guerre
Writing/Screenplay1981 Black Mirror
Writing/Writer1981 Circle of Deceit
Writing/Scenario Writer1980 Every Man for Himself
Writing/Screenplay1980 Every Man for Himself
Writing/Writer1979 The Angry Man
Writing/Writer1979 Beef Cattle
Writing/Screenplay1979 The Associate
Writing/Screenplay1979 The Tin Drum
Writing/Writer1979 Return to the Beloved
Writing/Writer1979 Ils sont grands, ces petits
Writing/Writer1978 Le franc-tireur
Writing/Writer1978 Surprise Sock
Writing/Writer1978 Photo-souvenir
Writing/Screenplay1978 Butterfly on the Shoulder
Writing/Writer1977 Julie pot-de-colle
Writing/Screenplay1977 That Obscure Object of Desire
Writing/Screenplay1977 The Gang
Writing/Writer1975 Leonor
Writing/Screenplay1975 Flesh of the Orchid
Writing/Writer1975 Serious as Pleasure
Writing/Screenplay1975 Weak Spot
Writing/Writer1974 The Phantom of Liberty
Writing/Screenplay1974 The Woman with Red Boots
Writing/Writer1974 Life Size
Writing/Screenplay1974 Dorothea's Revenge
Writing/Screenplay1972 The Monk
Writing/Screenplay1972 The Outside Man
Writing/Screenplay1972 Le Droit d'aimer
Writing/Writer1972 Liza
Writing/Writer1971 Taking Off
Writing/Screenplay1971 A Little Sun in Cold Water
Writing/Writer1971 The Wedding Ring
Writing/Writer1970 Borsalino
Writing/Screenplay1969 Le Grand Amour
Writing/Author1969 The Swimming Pool
Directing/Director1969 The Nail Clippers
Writing/Screenplay1969 The Nail Clippers
Writing/Writer1969 The Milky Way
Writing/Writer1968 For a Distant Love
Writing/Screenplay1967 The Thief of Paris
Writing/Screenplay1967 Belle de Jour
Writing/Writer1966 Hotel Paradiso
Writing/Screenplay1966 The Diabolical Dr. Z
Writing/Screenplay1966 Attack of the Robots
Writing/Writer1965 Le bestiaire d'amour
Writing/Screenplay1965 Viva Maria!
Writing/Screenplay1965 Yoyo
Writing/Writer1964 Diary of a Chambermaid
Writing/Writer1963 Insomnia
Writing/Screenplay1962 The Suitor
Directing/Director1962 Happy Anniversary
Writing/Co-Writer1962 Happy Anniversary
Directing/Director1961 Rupture
Writing/Co-Writer1961 Rupture

Citizenship: France
Born: Thursday, 09/17 1931 (September) in Colombières-sur-Orb, Hérault (France)
Died: Monday, 02/08 2021 (February) in 9th arrondissement of Paris (aged: 89)
Zodiac sign: Virgo (Chinese zodiac sign: Goat)
Languages: French (FR, native language)
Educated at: Lycée Lakanal, École normale supérieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud, Lycée Voltaire
Spouses (current/former): Nahal Tajadod
Other names for Jean-Claude Carrière (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Jean-Claude François Carrière"
"Jean-Claude Carriere"
"Jean Claude Carriere"
Jean-Claude Carrière frequently works together with these people:
Pierre Étaix (26x, Actor)
Luis Buñuel (22x, Crew)
Michel Piccoli (17x, Actor)
Jacques Deray (14x, Crew)
Juan Luis Buñuel (12x, Crew)
Henri Lanoë (11x, Crew)
Pierre Lary (10x, Crew)
Miloš Forman (9x, Actor)
Louis Malle (9x, Crew)
Philippe Garrel (9x, Crew)
Michel Drucker (7x, Actor)
WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:2586, Added: 03/23/2018, Last updated: 03/29/2024