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

• 2023The Plough — Screenplay
• 2022Land of Dreams — Writer
• 2021The Crusade — Writer, In Memory Of
• 2020The Salt of Tears — Dialogue, Screenplay
• 2018A Faithful Man — Writer
• 2018At Eternity's Gate — Writer
• 2018The Collection — Monsieur Klein
• 2017Lover for a Day — Screenplay
• 2015A Bigger Splash — Adaptation, Dialogue
• 2015In the Shadow of Women — Writer
• 2015The Petrov File — Writer
• 2013The Patience Stone — Screenplay
• 2012Harold et Maude — Writer
• 2012The Artist and the Model — Screenplay
• 2011Carrière, 250 Meters — Self, Screenplay
• 2011Memories of My Melancholy Whores — Screenplay
• 2010Certified Copy — The Man at the Square
• 2007Ulzhan — Scenario Writer
• 2006Avida — Le richa paranoïaque
• 2006Belle Toujours — Thanks
• 2006Goya's Ghosts — Screenplay
• 2006Marie-Antoinette, la véritable histoire — Writer
• 2006The Secret Book — Pierre Reymond
• 2004Birth — Screenplay
• Les Thibault — Maître Roubiot
• 2002Biblioteca Mindlin
• 2002Letter from an Unknown Woman — Writer
• 2002Ruy Blas — Screenplay
• 2002The Battle of Hernani — Writer
• 2001Bunuel and King Solomon's Table — David Goldman
• 2001Madame De... — Le ministre, Writer
• 2000Bérénice — Writer
• 2000Salsa — Writer
• 1999Broken Dolls — Story
• 1998Clarissa — Writer
• 1998Les paradoxes de Buñuel — Self, Screenplay
• 1998War in the Highlands — Writer
• 1997Chinese Box — Writer
• 1996Golden Boy — Writer
• 1996The Ogre — Screenplay
• 1995La duchesse de Langeais — Writer
• 1995The Horseman on the Roof — Screenplay
• 1995The Night and the Moment — The Governor, Screenplay
• 1993Sommersby — Original Film Writer
• 1992Dispute in Valladolid — Writer
• 1992The Return of Casanova — Writer
• 1991At Play in the Fields of the Lord — Screenplay
• 1990Bouvard et Pécuchet — Récitant
• 1990Cyrano de Bergerac — Screenplay
• 1990Hard to Be a God — Writer
• 1990May Fools — Screenplay
• 1990The Mahabharata — Writer, Theatre Play
• The Mahabharata — Writer, Theatre Play
• 1989J'écris dans l'espace — Screenplay
• The Owl's Legacy — Writer
• 1989The Silent Woman — Screenplay
• 1989Valmont — Screenplay
• 1988The Bengali Night — Writer
• 1988The Possessed — Screenplay
• 1988The Unbearable Lightness of Being — Screenplay
• 1986Exploits of a Young Don Juan — Writer
• 1986L'unique — Writer, Dialogue
• 1986Max My Love — Writer
• 1986Sea Workers — Writer
• 1986The Discoveries of a Modern Couple — Writer
• 1986The Wolf at the Door — Scenario Writer
• 1986The Young Girl and Hell — Writer
• 1985Lancement réussi — Scenario Writer
• 1984L'aide-mémoire — Writer
• 1984Swann in Love — Writer
• 1984Vive les femmes ! — The deaf-mute
• 1983Credo — Writer
• 1983Danton — Screenplay
• 1983Side Roads — Writer
• 1983The General of the Dead Army — Writer
• 1983The Tragedy of Carmen — Writer
• 1982Antonieta — Writer
• 1982Godard's Passion — Writer
• 1982L'Indiscrétion — Writer
• 1982La Cerisaie — Adaptation
• 1982The Return of Martin Guerre — Screenplay
• 1982The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan — Writer
• 1981Black Mirror — Screenplay
• 1981Circle of Deceit — Writer
• 1981L'Amour nu — Le professeur
• La Double Vie de Théophraste Longuet — Adaptation, Dialogue
• 1980Every Man for Himself — Writer
• 1980Lundi — Screenplay, Dialogue
• 1979Beef Cattle — Writer
• 1979L'Homme en colère — Writer
• 1979Return to the Beloved — Writer
• 1979The Associate — Un homme présent à la lecture du testament, Un homme à la lecture du testament (uncredited), Dialogue, Screenplay
• 1979The Tin Drum — Rasputin, Screenplay
• 1979These Kids Are Grown-Ups — Le psychiatre (uncredited), Writer
• 1978Butterfly on the Shoulder — Screenplay
• 1978Le Franc-tireur — Writer
• 1978Photo-souvenir — Prof. Henri Quissard, Writer
• 1978Surprise Sock — Fournier, Writer
• The South Bank Show
• 1977Julie pot-de-colle — Writer
• 1977That Obscure Object of Desire — Screenplay
• 1977The Gang — Screenplay
• 1976The Game of Solitaire — Luc
• 1976The Garden of Torment — The ship's captain
• 1975Flesh of the Orchid — Writer
• 1975Leonor — Writer
• 1975Serious as Pleasure — Le chef d'etage (uncredited), Writer
• 1975Weak Spot — Screenplay
• 1974Dorothea's Revenge — Screenplay
• 1974France, Incorporated — Writer
• 1974Life Size — Writer
• 1974The Phantom of Liberty — Writer
• 1974The Woman with Red Boots — Screenplay
• 1972Liza — Writer
• 1972The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie — Screenplay
• 1972The Monk — Screenplay
• 1972The Outside Man — Story, Screenplay
• 1972The Right to Love — Screenplay
• 1971A Little Sun in Cold Water — François, Screenplay
• 1971Taking Off — Writer
• 1971The Wedding Ring — Hugues, Writer
• 1970Borsalino — Writer
• 1969Le Grand Amour — Screenplay
• 1969The Milky Way — Priscillian, Writer
• 1969The Nail Clippers — Director, Screenplay
• 1969The Swimming Pool — Writer
• 1968For a Distant Love — Writer
• 1967Belle de Jour — Screenplay
• 1967The Thief of Paris — Screenplay
• 1966As Long as You've Got Your Health — Writer
• 1966Attack of the Robots — Screenplay
• 1966Hotel Paradiso — Writer
• 1966The Diabolical Dr. Z — Screenplay
• 1965Bestiary of Love — Writer
• The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe — Writer
• 1965Viva Maria! — Screenplay
• 1965Yoyo — Screenplay
• 1964Diary of a Chambermaid — Le curé, Writer
• 1963Happy Anniversary — Co-Writer, Director
• 1963Insomnia — Writer
• 1962The Suitor — TV presenter (uncredited), Screenplay
• 1961Rupture — Co-Writer, Director
• Micromeo — Writer

Appearances as themselves (53)

• 2026L'Œuvre invisible — Self
• 2022Dans les pas de Jean-Paul Rappeneau — Self
• 2022Goya, Carrière & the Ghost of Buñuel — Self
• 2021Milan Kundera: From the Joke to Insignificance — Self - Screenwriter
• 2019Fifty Years Later — Self
• 2019Francisco de Goya: The Dream of Reason — Self - Writer
• 2019Mostashregh — Self
• 2018Luis Buñuel, la transgression des rêves — Self
• 2018Scenes from A Separation — Self
• 2018Searching for Ingmar Bergman — Self - Filmmaker
• 2018The Strange Life of Dr. Frankenstein — Self
• 2017Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait — Self
• 2017Robert Doisneau: Through the Lens — Self
• 2016Borsalino City — Self - Scriptwriter
• 2015Eduardo Ducay: el cine que siempre estuvo ahí — Self
• 2015Tras Nazarin: Following Nazarin — Self
• 2014Los chicos de la foto — Self
• 2014Romy Schneider, à fleur de peau — Self
• 2014The Mystery of the King of Kinema — Self
• 2013En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel — Self
• 2013Once Upon a Time... 'The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie' — Self
• 2013Professor Goudet's Lessons — Self
• 2011Pierre Étaix, un destin animé — Self
• 2010And the blue sky — Himself
• 2010Il était une fois... « King Kong » — Self (scénariste)
• 2010Miloš Forman — Self
• 2009Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You… — Self
• 2008The Last Script: Remembering Luis Buñuel — Self
• 2007Rituals — Self
• 2006Emotional History: The Making of 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being' — Self
• 2006Un Ange dans les marécages — Self
• Una belleza nueva — Self
• 2005Buñuel: Atheist Thanks to God — Self
• 2005Une promenade parmi les ombres — Himself
• 2004The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth — Self
• 2003Gala — Self
• Un film et son époque — Self
• 2000Buñuel in Hollywood — Self
• 2000Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète — Self
• 2000Speaking of Buñuel — Self
• Vivement dimanche — Self
• 1989Making 'The Mahabharata' — Self
• Matin Bonheur — Self
• Nulle part ailleurs — Self
• 1984The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel — Self
• Champs-Elysées — Self
• 1982Passion, le travail et l'amour: Introduction à un scénario — Self
• Ciné regards — Self
• Apostrophes — Self
• Les Rendez-vous du dimanche — Self
• Spécial cinéma — Self
• Pour le plaisir — Self
• The Arbitrariness of Desire — Himself