Miloš Forman
Jan Tomáš "Miloš" Forman (/ˈmiːloʊʃ/;[2] Czech: [ˈmɪloʃ ˈforman]; 18 February 1932 – 13 April 2018) was a Czech-American film director, screenwriter, actor, and professor who rose to fame in his native Czechoslovakia before emigrating to the United States in 1968. Throughout Forman's career he won two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, three Golden Globe Awards, a Golden Bear, a César Award, and the Czech Lion.[3]
Miloš Forman
13 April 2018 (aged 86)
- Czechoslovakia (until 1993)
- United States (from 1977)
- Czech Republic (from 1993)
- Actor
- director
- screenwriter
- professor
1953–2011
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Věra Křesadlová(m. 1964; div. 1999)
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Martina Zbořilová(m. 1999)
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- Antonie Formanová (granddaughter)[1]
- Joseph J. Kohn (half-brother)
Forman was an important figure in the Czechoslovak New Wave. Film scholars and Czechoslovak authorities saw his 1967 film The Firemen's Ball as a biting satire on Eastern European Communism. The film was initially shown in theatres in his home country in the more reformist atmosphere of the Prague Spring. However, it was later banned by the Communist government after the invasion by the Warsaw Pact countries in 1968.[4] Forman was subsequently forced to leave Czechoslovakia for the United States, where he continued making films.[5]
He received two Academy Awards for Best Director for the psychological drama One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and the biographical drama Amadeus (1984). During this time, he also directed notable and acclaimed films such as Black Peter (1964), Loves of a Blonde (1965), Hair (1978), Ragtime (1981), Valmont (1989), The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996) and Man on the Moon (1999).
In 1977, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States.[9] In 1985, he headed the Cannes Film Festival and in 2000 did the same for the Venice Film Festival.[14] He presided over a César Award ceremony in 1988.[71] In April 2007, he took part in the jazz opera Dobře placená procházka, itself a remake of the TV film he made in 1966.[60] It premiered at the Prague National Theatre, directed by Forman's son, Petr Forman.[60] Named 30th greatest Czech by Největší Čech[72] Forman's films One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus were selected for the National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" in 1993 and 2019 respectively[73]
