Michel Cournot, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Michel Cournot

Journalist, Screenwriter, Film director

Date of Birth: 01-May-1922

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 08-Feb-2007

Profession: screenwriter, writer, playwright, journalist, film director, film critic

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

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).