Michel Cournot

{{short description|French writer}}

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| 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

| yearsactive = 1961–1988

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Michel Cournot ({{IPA|fr|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,{{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}} 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)."Genie award nominees: complete list". Vancouver Sun, February 14, 1989.