Jean-Claude Carrière facts for kids
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Jean-Claude Carrière
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Jean-Claude Carrière in 2008
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| Born | 17 September 1931 Colombières-sur-Orb, France
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| Died | 8 February 2021 (aged 89) Paris, France
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| Occupation | Novelist, screenwriter, actor, director |
| Years active | 1957–2021 |
Jean-Claude Carrière (born September 17, 1931 – died February 8, 2021) was a famous French writer, screenwriter, and actor. He was very talented and won many awards for his work in movies.
He won an Oscar for a short film called Heureux Anniversaire in 1963. Later, in 2014, he received an Honorary Oscar for his amazing career. He was also nominated for an Oscar three other times for his screenplays. These films were 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 (a French film award) for The Return of Martin Guerre (1983).
Carrière studied at a special school in France called École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud. He also became the president of La Fémis, which is a French state film school he helped create. He was well-known for working often with the director Luis Buñuel, writing many of his later French films.
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Early life and beginnings
Jean-Claude Carrière was born in a town called Colombières-sur-Orb in southwestern France. This was on September 17, 1931. His family grew grapes for wine. In 1945, his parents moved to Montreuil, near Paris, to open a coffeehouse.
Carrière was a very smart student. He went to Lycée Lakanal and then studied literature and history. He published his first novel, Lézard, in 1957 when he was 26. After this, he met Jacques Tati, a famous filmmaker. Tati hired Carrière to write books based on his movies.
A career in film
Carrière met Pierre Étaix, who was Jacques Tati's assistant. Carrière and Étaix worked together to write and direct several films. One of these was Heureux Anniversaire (1962). This film won an Oscar for Best Short Subject (Live Action) in 1963.
In the same year, Carrière started working with Luis Buñuel. This partnership lasted for 19 years! Their first film together was Diary of a Chambermaid (1964). Carrière helped write the screenplay and even acted in the film as a village priest. They worked together on almost all of Buñuel's later films. These included Belle de Jour (1967), The Milky Way (1969), and The Phantom of Liberty (1974).
Their work on The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. The film itself won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Five years later, they were nominated for another Oscar for That Obscure Object of Desire (1977).
Carrière also wrote the screenplay for The Tin Drum (1979). This movie won the top prize at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival and an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. His script for The Return of Martin Guerre (1983) won the 1983 César Award for Best Original Screenplay. He received his third Oscar nomination for writing The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988).
In 1986, Carrière helped start La Fémis, which is a state film school in France. He taught screenwriting there and was its president for ten years. He also worked with Peter Brook to create a very long stage play (nine hours!) based on an ancient Indian story called The Mahabharata. They also made a five-hour movie version. He also helped write the script for The White Ribbon, which won a major award in 2009.
Later life and legacy
In 2012, Carrière and Umberto Eco published a book together. It was about how information is stored and shared in the future. Carrière also wrote comic books.
In 2014, Jean-Claude Carrière received an Academy Honorary Award. This special Oscar was given to him for his lifetime of work. He wrote about 80 screenplays, as well as essays, novels, and interviews.
Jean-Claude Carrière passed away peacefully in his sleep on February 8, 2021, at his home in Paris. He was 89 years old.
Awards and recognition
- Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film (1963) for Heureux Anniversaire
- Academy Honorary Award (2014) for his lifetime achievements
- Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement (2000)
- Padma Shri, a high civilian award from India (2015)
Filmography
Writer
- The Suitor (1962)
- Rupture (1962, Short)
- Heureux Anniversaire (1962, Short)
- The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1964, TV Series)
- La reine verte (1964, TV Movie)
- Diary of a Chambermaid (1964)
- Yo Yo (1965)
- Viva Maria! (1965)
- The Diabolical Dr. Z (1965)
- Tant qu'on a la santé (1966)
- Hotel Paradiso (1966)
- The Thief of Paris (1967)
- Belle de Jour (1967)
- Pour un amour lointain (1968)
- The Great Love (1969)
- The Milky Way (1969)
- La Piscine (1969)
- La pince à ongles (1969, Short, also director)
- Borsalino (1970)
- Un peu de soleil dans l'eau froide (1971)
- The Wedding Ring (1971)
- Taking Off (1971)
- The Outside Man (1972)
- The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
- Liza (1972)
- Le Moine (1973)
- France, Inc. (1973)
- The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
- Serious as Pleasure (1975)
- La Chair de l'orchidée (1975)
- That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
- Le gang (1977)
- Le Diable dans la boîte (1977)
- Julie pot de colle (1977)
- Butterfly on the Shoulder (1978)
- The Tin Drum (1979)
- Return to the Beloved (1979)
- The Associate (1979)
- Sauve qui peut (la vie) (1980)
- The Return of Martin Guerre (1982)
- Passion (1982)
- The General of the Dead Army (1983)
- La Tragédie de Carmen (1983)
- Danton (1983)
- Credo (1983, TV Movie)
- Un amour de Swann (1984)
- Max, Mon Amour (1986)
- Les Exploits d'un jeune Don Juan (1987)
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
- The Possessed (1988)
- The Bengali Night (1988)
- Valmont (1989)
- Hard to Be a God (1989)
- The Mahabharata (1989)
- Bouvard et Pécuchet (1989)
- May Fools (1990)
- Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)
- At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991)
- The Return of Casanova (1992)
- La Controverse de Valladolid (1992, TV Movie)
- C'était la guerre (1993, TV Movie)
- Priez pour nous (1994)
- The Night and the Moment (1995)
- The Horseman on the Roof (1995)
- La duchesse de Langeais (1995, TV Movie)
- Associations de bienfaiteurs (1995)
- The Ogre (1996)
- The Associate (1996)
- Le parfum de Jeannette (1996, TV Movie)
- Golden Boy (1996)
- Chinese Box (1997)
- Clarissa (1998)
- La Guerre dans le Haut Pays (1999)
- Salsa (2000)
- Madame De... (2001)
- Letter from an Unknown Woman (2001, TV Movie)
- La Bataille d'Hernani (2002, TV Movie)
- Ruy Blas (2002, TV Movie)
- Rien, voilà l'ordre (2003)
- Les Thibault (2003, TV mini series)
- Father Goriot (2004)
- Birth (2004)
- Galilée ou L'amour de Dieu (2005, TV Movie)
- Goya's Ghosts (2006)
- Ulzhan (2007)
- The 4th Wall (2010), based on his play L'Aide-Mémoire (1968)
- The Artist and the Model (2012)
- In the Shadow of Women (2015)
- Lover for a Day (2017)
- A Faithful Man (2018)
- At Eternity's Gate (2018)
- Le sel des larmes (2019)
Actor
- Diary of a Chambermaid (1964) – The priest
- The Milky Way (1969) – Priscillian
- Alliance (1969) – Hugues
- Un peu de soleil dans l'eau froide (1971) – François, Nathalie's husband
- Serious as Pleasure (1975) – The floor manager (uncredited)
- Le jeu du solitaire (1976) – Luc
- Le jardin des supplices (1976) – The ship's commander
- Surprise Sock (1978) – Fournier
- Ils sont grands, ces petits (1979) – The psychiatrist (uncredited)
- Die Blechtrommel (1979) – Grigori Rasputin (extended cut, uncredited)
- L'amour nu (1981) – The professor
- Vive les femmes! (1984) – The deaf-mute man
- The Night and the Moment (1994) – The Governor
- Jaya Ganga (1996) – Professor
- Buñuel y la mesa del rey Salomón (2001) – David Goldman
- Avida (2006) – The paranoid rich man
- Tajnata kniga (2006) – Pierre Reymond
- Certified Copy (2010) – The man in the square
- La fameuse invasion des ours en Sicile (2019) – Old Bear (voice)
Images for kids
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Carrière in 2008
See also
In Spanish: Jean-Claude Carrière para niños
