Henri Belafonte
Source: www.oscars.org
Philip Kaufman, director of "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"on which they collaborated, presented to Jean-Claude Carrière his award at a gala evening at the Dolby Theatre, where the Oscars ceremony was held. Before an audience of stars including Robert Downey Jr, Keira Knightley or Clint Eastwood, Volker Schlondorff, director of "Drum", Palme d'Or at Cannes and the Best Foreign Film Oscar in 1979, compared J Claude Carrière to a "midwife to filmmakers ». He also worked as a screenwriter with Daniel Vigne (The Return of Martin Guerre), Volker Schlöndorff (The Tin Drum , The Forger), Andrej Wajda (Danton), Jacques Deray (The Swimming Pool, Borsalino & Co.), Jean -Luc Godard (Sauve Qui Peut (La Vie)), Louis Malle (Viva Maria , May Fools), Jonathan Glazer (Birth), MiloÅ¡ Forman (Taking Off, Valmont), Jean- Paul Rappeneau (Cyrano de Bergerac, The Horseman on the Roof), Mikael Hanneke (The White Ribbon) and Atiq Rahimi (Synghé Sabour , Pierre de patience). As a novelist (Simon Magus and The Controversy of Valladolid) he wrote the book The Force of Buddhism with the Dalai Lama in 1994, Conversations on the Invisible (1988) with astrophysicists Jean Audouze and Michel Cassé, Interviews on the End of Time (1998) and Do Not Expect to Get Rid of Books with Umberto Eco.
Jean-Claude Carrière, is a great part of the French cultural heritage, through his enormous contributions both as a writer, a man of theater and cinema. He is a multi caps man.
Jean-Claude Carrière, meanwhile, paid tribute, the same, to all the great directors with whom he worked for over 50 years, including Jacques Tati, Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Rappeneau. "They have all taught me something. I hear their voices in my ears. In a way, they are all there that night," he said. All these talented filmmakers have marked French cinema in their wake of the "New Wave" which would create a style of "Cinéma d'auteur committed", a few decades later.
