Carrière also penned screenplay for "The Tin Drum" (1979), which won both the Palme d'Or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival and Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars a year later. His work in "The Return of Martin Guerre" (1983) won the 1983 César Award for Best Original Screenplay. He received his third Academy Award nomination six years later for writing the script of "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" (1988) with Philip Kaufman.