Michel Cournot

Michel Cournot (1 May 1922 – 8 February 2007) was a French journalist, screenwriter and film director. As a writer he was awarded the Fénéon Prize in 1949 for "Martinique". His only film as a director, "Les Gauloises bleues", was due to be entered at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival, but the festival was cancelled because of the events of May 1968 in France.
He received a Genie Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the 10th Genie Awards in 1989, as cowriter with Claude Fournier and Marie-José Raymond of the Canadian television miniseries "The Mills of Power (Les Tisserands du pouvoir)".