---
name: "Michel Cournot"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/michel-cournot"
fi1m_id: "michel-cournot"
imdb_id: "nm0183716"
tmdb_id: 53915
wikidata_id: "Q3309344"
roles: []
born: "1 May 1922"
died: "8 February 2007"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T16:26:59.929776+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Michel Cournot

## Identity

Michel Cournot

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/michel-cournot
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** michel-cournot
- **IMDb ID:** nm0183716
- **TMDB ID:** 53915
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3309344
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Cournot, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3309344, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0183716/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/53915

Writer. Born 1 May 1922 in Paris, France. Died 8 February 2007.

## Details

- **Born:** 1 May 1922, Paris, France
- **Died:** 8 February 2007
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Cournot, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3309344, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0183716/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/53915

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Weekend*](https://film.one/film/weekend-1967.md) (81)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Michel Cournot (1922–2007) was a French journalist, screenwriter and film director. Born in Paris, he began his career as a journalist, writing for *France-Soir* and *L'Express*, and later served as a film critic for *Le Nouvel Observateur* and a theatre critic for *Le Monde*.

As a writer, he received the Fénéon Prize in 1949 for his book *Martinique*. He directed the feature film *Les Gauloises bleues* (1968), which was selected for the Cannes Film Festival before the event was cancelled amid the May 1968 protests. He co-wrote the screenplay for the Canadian television miniseries *Les Tisserands du pouvoir* (1988), for which he received a Genie Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay. He also appeared uncredited as Man From Farmyard in Jean-Luc Godard's *Weekend* (1967).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Weekend* (1967), Fi1m 81, as Man From Farmyard (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/weekend-1967.md)

## Complete filmography (6)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Les Tisserands du pouvoir 2, la révolte* (1988), Writer
- *Les Tisserands du pouvoir* (1988), Writer
- *Ursule and Grelu* (1974), Writer, Dialogue
- *Les Gauloises bleues* (1969), Director, Writer
- *Weekend* (1967), as Man From Farmyard (uncredited) — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/weekend-1967.md)
- *Leon Garros Is Looking for His Friend* (1961), Writer

## Awards

### Other awards — 3 won

- Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres 1997: Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (won)
- Prix des Deux Magots 1958: Prix des Deux Magots (won), for *Le Premier Spectateur*
- Fénéon Prize for literature 1949: Fénéon Prize for literature (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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