Auteur

Jean-Claude Carrière

1931–2021 · French screenwriter and actor

Jean-Claude Carrière 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 given 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).

Jean-Claude Carrière, in order

  1. 1962 Happy Anniversary (short film): directed, produced, acted
  2. 1962 Rupture: directed, wrote · streaming on Criterion Channel
  3. 1963 Insomnie: wrote · directed by Pierre Étaix
  4. 1963 The Suitor: wrote · directed by Pierre Étaix · audiences 79% · streaming on Criterion Channel
  5. 1964 Diary of a Chambermaid: wrote, acted · directed by Luis Buñuel
  6. 1964 The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (TV movie): wrote
  7. 1965 The Lair of Love: wrote · directed by Gerald Calderon
  8. 1965 Viva Maria!: wrote · directed by Louis Malle · critics 60%, audiences 47%
  9. 1965 Yoyo: wrote · directed by Pierre Étaix
  10. 1966 As Long as You've Got Your Health: wrote · directed by Pierre Étaix
  11. 1966 Attack of the Robots: wrote · directed by Jesús Franco
  12. 1966 Hotel Paradiso: wrote · directed by Peter Glenville
  13. 1966 The Diabolical Dr. Z: wrote · directed by Jesús Franco
  14. 1967 Belle de Jour: wrote · directed by Luis Buñuel
  15. 1967 The Thief of Paris: wrote · directed by Louis Malle
  16. 1968 Pour un amour lointain: wrote · directed by Edmond Séchan
  17. 1969 La Piscine: wrote · directed by Jacques Deray
  18. 1969 The Great Love: wrote · directed by Pierre Étaix
  19. 1969 The Milky Way: wrote, acted · directed by Luis Buñuel
  20. 1969 The Nail Clippers: directed, wrote
  21. 1970 Borsalino: wrote · directed by Jacques Deray
  22. 1971 Feeling Good: wrote · directed by Pierre Étaix
  23. 1971 Taking Off: wrote · directed by Miloš Forman · critics 100%, audiences 84%
  24. 1971 The Wedding Ring: wrote, acted · directed by Christian de Chalonge
  25. 1971 Un peu de soleil dans l'eau froide: wrote, acted · directed by Jacques Deray
  26. 1972 Liza: wrote · directed by Marco Ferreri
  27. 1972 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie: wrote · directed by Luis Buñuel
  28. 1972 The Monk: wrote · directed by Adonis Kyrou
  29. 1972 The Outside Man: wrote · directed by Jacques Deray
  30. 1974 Dorothea's Revenge: wrote · directed by Peter Fleischmann
  31. 1974 France Inc.: wrote · directed by Alain Corneau
  32. 1974 La Femme aux bottes rouges: wrote · directed by Juan Luis Buñuel
  33. 1974 Life Size: wrote · directed by Luis García Berlanga
  34. 1974 Love in the Rain: wrote · directed by Jean-Claude Brialy
  35. 1974 The Phantom of Liberty: wrote · directed by Luis Buñuel
  36. 1975 La Chair de l'orchidée: wrote · directed by Patrice Chéreau · audiences 82%
  37. 1975 Léonor: wrote · directed by Juan Luis Buñuel
  38. 1975 Serious as Pleasure: wrote, acted · directed by Robert Benayoun
  39. 1975 Weak Spot: wrote · directed by Peter Fleischmann
  40. 1976 Le jeu du solitaire: acted · directed by Jean-François Adam
  41. 1976 Scrambled Eggs: wrote · directed by Joël Santoni
  42. 1976 The Garden of Torture: acted · directed by Christian Gion
  43. 1977 Julie Gluepot: wrote, acted · directed by Philippe de Broca
  44. 1977 Le Gang: wrote · directed by Jacques Deray
  45. 1977 Le diable dans la boîte: wrote · directed by Pierre Lary
  46. 1977 That Obscure Object of Desire: wrote · directed by Luis Buñuel
  47. 1978 Butterfly on the Shoulder: wrote · directed by Jacques Deray
  48. 1978 Surprise Sock: wrote, acted · directed by Jean-François Davy
  49. 1979 Ils sont grands ces petits: wrote, acted · directed by Joël Santoni
  50. 1979 The Angry Man: wrote · directed by Claude Pinoteau
  51. 1979 The Associate: wrote, acted · directed by René Gainville
  52. 1979 The Tin Drum: wrote, acted · directed by Volker Schlöndorff
  53. 1980 Every Man for Himself: wrote · directed by Jean-Luc Godard
  54. 1981 Circle of Deceit: wrote · directed by Volker Schlöndorff
  55. 1981 L'amour nu: acted · directed by Yannick Bellon
  56. 1982 Antonieta: wrote · directed by Carlos Saura
  57. 1982 Passion: wrote · directed by Jean-Luc Godard
  58. 1983 Credo (TV movie): wrote · directed by Jacques Deray
  59. 1983 Danton: wrote · directed by Andrzej Wajda
  60. 1983 Sprawa Dantona: wrote · directed by Andrzej Wajda
  61. 1983 The General of the Dead Army: wrote · directed by Luciano Tovoli
  62. 1983 The Return of Martin Guerre: wrote · directed by Daniel Vigne
  63. 1983 The Tragedy of Carmen: wrote · directed by Peter Brook
  64. 1984 Un amour de Swann: wrote · directed by Volker Schlöndorff
  65. 1984 Vive les femmes!: acted · directed by Claude Confortès
  66. 1986 Exploits of a Young Don Juan: wrote · directed by Gianfranco Mingozzi
  67. 1986 L'unique: wrote · directed by Jérôme Diamant-Berger
  68. 1986 Max, Mon Amour: wrote · directed by Nagisa Ōshima · critics 22%, audiences 55%
  69. 1986 The Wolf at the Door: wrote · directed by Henning Carlsen
  70. 1988 The Bengali Night: wrote · directed by Nicolas Klotz · audiences 56%
  71. 1988 The Possessed: wrote · directed by Andrzej Wajda
  72. 1988 The Unbearable Lightness of Being: wrote · directed by Philip Kaufman · critics 89%, audiences 84%
  73. 1989 Hard to Be a God: wrote · directed by Peter Fleischmann
  74. 1989 The Mahabharata (TV movie): wrote · directed by Peter Brook
  75. 1989 Valmont: wrote · directed by Miloš Forman · critics 50%, audiences 69% · streaming on Roku Channel, Kanopy, YouTube (free)
  76. 1990 Cyrano de Bergerac: wrote · directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau
  77. 1990 May Fools: wrote · directed by Louis Malle
  78. 1991 At Play in the Fields of the Lord: wrote · directed by Héctor Babenco
  79. 1992 La controverse de Valladolid (TV movie): wrote · directed by Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe
  80. 1992 The Return of Casanova: wrote · directed by Édouard Niermans
  81. 1993 Sommersby: wrote · directed by Jon Amiel
  82. 1995 The Horseman on the Roof: wrote · directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau
  83. 1995 The Night and the Moment: wrote, acted · directed by Anna Maria Tatò
  84. 1996 The Associate: wrote · directed by Donald Petrie
  85. 1996 The Ogre: wrote · directed by Volker Schlöndorff
  86. 1997 Chinese Box: wrote · directed by Wayne Wang
  87. 1999 War in the Highlands: wrote · directed by Francis Reusser
  88. 2000 Salsa: wrote · directed by Joyce Buñuel
  89. 2001 Bunuel and King Solomon's Table: acted · directed by Carlos Saura
  90. 2004 Birth: wrote · directed by Jonathan Glazer · critics 41%, audiences 44%
  91. 2006 Avida: acted · directed by Benoît Delépine and Gustave de Kervern
  92. 2006 Goya's Ghosts: wrote · directed by Miloš Forman · critics 31%, audiences 57% · streaming on Prime Video, Roku Channel, Kanopy
  93. 2006 Marie-Antoinette (TV movie): wrote · directed by Francis Leclerc and Yves Simoneau
  94. 2007 Ulzhan: wrote · directed by Volker Schlöndorff
  95. 2010 Certified Copy: acted · directed by Abbas Kiarostami
  96. 2011 Memories of My Melancholy Whores: wrote · directed by Henning Carlsen
  97. 2012 The Artist and the Model: wrote · directed by Fernando Trueba
  98. 2012 The Patience Stone: wrote · directed by Atiq Rahimi
  99. 2015 In the Shadow of Women: wrote · directed by Philippe Garrel
  100. 2016 Milos Forman – What Doesn’t Kill You: acted · directed by Miloslav Šmídmajer
  101. 2017 Lover for a Day: wrote · directed by Philippe Garrel
  102. 2018 A Faithful Man: wrote · directed by Louis Garrel
  103. 2018 At Eternity's Gate: wrote · directed by Julian Schnabel
  104. 2018 Searching for Ingmar Bergman: acted · directed by Felix Moeller and Margarethe von Trotta
  105. 2020 The Salt of Tears: wrote · directed by Philippe Garrel
  106. 2023 The Plough: wrote · directed by Philippe Garrel
  107. Milan Kundera: From the Joke to Insignificance: acted · directed by Miloslav Šmídmajer