Film Festival and Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars a year later. His work in The Return of Martin Guerre (1983) won the 1983 César Award for Best Original Screenplay. He received his third Academy Award nomination six years later for writing the script of The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988) with Philip Kaufman. Carrière co-founded La Fémis, the French state film school, in 1986. He taught screenwriting there, and served as its president for ten years. He collaborated with Peter Brook on a nine hour long stage version of the ancient Sanskrit epic The Mahabharata, and a five-hour film version. He also provided the libretto for Hans Gefors' fifth opera Clara, which was premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris in 1998. He was credited as a script consultant in The White Ribbon, which won the Palme d'Or in 2009. Later life and death Carrière and Umberto Eco published This is Not the End of the Book in 2012, a book of conversations on the future of information carriers. Carrière also wrote comics for Bernard Yslaire and Pierre Étaix. He was given an Academy Honorary Award in 2014, for his lifetime work in writing approximately 80 screenplays, as well as his essays, fiction, translations and interviews. Carrière died in his sleep on 8 February 2021 at his home in Paris of natural causes. Awards and honors Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film (1963) for Heureux Anniversaire, shared with Pierre Étaix Academy Honorary Award (2014) for lifetime achievement (at Governors Awards) Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement (2000) Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award of India (2015) Asteroid 347266 Carrière, discovered by amateur astronomer Bernard Christophe at Saint-Sulpice Observatory in 2004, was named in his memory. The was announced by the International Astronomical Union on 16 June 2021. 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