Michel Cournot
Journalist, Screenwriter, Film director
About Michel Cournot
Lived 1922 – 2007 (aged 84). Michel Cournot was a French film critic, film director, journalist, writer, playwright and screenwriter.
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).
Selected filmography Les Gauloises bleues (1968)
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Who was Michel Cournot?
Journalist, Screenwriter, Film director (1922–2007)
When was Michel Cournot born?
Michel Cournot was born on 1 May 1922 in 17th arrondissement of Paris.
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Michel Cournot died on 8 February 2007 in 14th arrondissement of Paris.
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Michel Cournot was a film critic, film director, journalist, writer, playwright and screenwriter.
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Michel Cournot was French.
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