Michel Cournot

Michel Cournot
Born(1922-05-01)1 May 1922
Paris, France
Died8 February 2007(2007-02-08) (aged 84)
Paris, France
Occupation(s)Journalist, screenwriter, film director
Years active1961–1988

Michel Cournot (French pronunciation: [miʃɛl kuʁno]; 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).