Jean-Claude Carrière

Biography

Jean-Claude Carrière was a French novelist, screenwriter, and actor born on September 17, 1931, in Colombières-sur-Orb, France. He received an Academy Award for co-writing the short film "Heureux Anniversaire" (1963) and later won an Honorary Oscar in 2014. A frequent collaborator with Luis Buñuel, Carrière also founded La Fémis, a French state film school he helped establish, earning him a César Award for Best Original Screenplay in "The Return of Martin Guerre" (1983).