Overview
Jean-Claude Carrière
Known For
Goya, Carrière & the Ghost of Buñuel
French writer Jean-Claude Carrière (1931-2021) traces the life and work...
Milan Kundera: From the Joke to Insignificance
The brilliant Czech writer Milan Kundera has not given an...
Francisco de Goya: The Dream of Reason
French writer Jean-Claude Carrière traces the life and work of...
The Strange Life of Dr. Frankenstein
In 1818, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus,...
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.