{{short description|French writer, journalist, screenwriter and film director (1922-2007)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}} {{Infobox person | image = | name = Michel Cournot | birth_date = {{Birth date|1922|5|1|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Paris]], France | death_date = {{Death date and age|2007|2|8|1922|5|1|df=yes}} | death_place = Paris, France | occupation = Journalist, screenwriter, film director | years_active = 1961–1988 }}

'''Michel Cournot''' ({{IPA|fr|miʃɛl kuʁno}}; 1 May 1922 &ndash; 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]],<ref name="festival-cannes.com">{{Cite web|url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/2678/year/1968.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Les Gauloises bleues |access-date=4 April 2009|work=festival-cannes.com}}</ref> but the festival was cancelled because of the events of [[May 1968 in France]].

He received a [[Genie Award]] nomination for [[Canadian Screen Award for Best Screenplay|Best Original Screenplay]] at the [[10th Genie Awards]] in 1989, as cowriter with [[Claude Fournier (filmmaker)|Claude Fournier]] and Marie-José Raymond of the Canadian television miniseries ''[[The Mills of Power]] (Les Tisserands du pouvoir)''.<ref>"Genie award nominees: complete list". ''[[Vancouver Sun]]'', February 14, 1989.</ref>

==Selected filmography== * ''[[Les Gauloises bleues]]'' (1968)

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *{{IMDb name|0183716|Michel Cournot}}

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