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Known For
Directing
Birthday
February 18, 1932
Died
April 13, 2018
Place of Birth
Čáslav, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
Also Known As
- Milos Forman
- 밀로스 포만
Miloš Forman
0.7 Popularity
Biography
Jan Tomáš "Miloš" Forman (/ˈmiːloʊʃ/; Czech: [ˈmɪloʃ ˈforman]; February 18, 1932 – April 13, 2018) was a Czech and American film director, screenwriter, actor, and professor who rose to fame in his native Czechoslovakia before emigrating to the United States in 1968. 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. Forman was subsequently forced to leave Czechoslovakia for the United States, where he continued making films, gaining wider critical and financial success. In 1975, he directed One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) starring Jack Nicholson as a patient in a mental institution. The film received widespread acclaim, and was the second in history to win all five major Academy Awards: Best Picture, Director, Screenplay, Actor in Leading Role, and Actress in Leading Role. In 1978, he directed the anti-war musical Hair which premiered at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival. In 1981, he directed the turn of the century drama film, Ragtime, which was known for its large ensemble cast. The film went on to receive 8 Academy Award nominations. His next feature was a period biographical film, Amadeus (1984), based on the life of famed classical musician Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart starring Tom Hulce, and F. Murray Abraham. The film was both a critical and financial success earning 11 nominations with 8 wins including for Best Picture, and another win for Forman as Best Director. In 1996, Forman received another Academy Award nomination for Best Director for The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996). Throughout Forman's career he won 2 Academy Awards, 3 Golden Globe Awards, Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival, Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, a British Academy Film Award, a César Award, David di Donatello Award, and the Czech Lion. Description above from the Wikipedia article Miloš Forman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
7.7
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Forman vs. Forman
2019
6.5
Self
CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel
2018
7.5
Self
Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond
2017
6.0
Self
To Make a Comedy Is No Fun
2016
5.0
Self
Olga
2014
0.0
Self
Chaplin - The Legend of the Century
2014
🎬
0.0
Self
Milos Forman Taking Off in America
2012
🎬
0.0
Self
The Presence of Arnošt Lustig
2012
6.1
Jaromil
Beloved
2011
7.6
Self
Once Upon a Time… One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
2011
Credits
Forman vs. Forman
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2019
7.7
CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel
as Self
2018
6.5
Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond
as Self
2017
7.5
To Make a Comedy Is No Fun
as Self
2016
6.0
Olga
as Self
2014
5.0
Chaplin - The Legend of the Century
as Self
2014
0.0
🎬
Milos Forman Taking Off in America
as Self
2012
0.0
🎬
The Presence of Arnošt Lustig
as Self
2012
0.0
Beloved
as Jaromil
2011
6.1
Once Upon a Time… One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
as Self
2011
7.6
Mark Donskoy, King and Jester
2011
5.2
Carrière, 250 Meters
as Self
2011
10.0
🎬
Miloš Forman
as Self
2010
0.0
Sodankylä Forever
as Self
2010
0.0
Sodankylä Forever
as Self
2010
6.4
Shapes of Rhythm: The Music of Galt MacDermot
as Self - Interviewee: Director
2010
0.0
Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
as Self
2009
6.6
🎬
Life and Film: The Labyrinthine Biographies of Vojtech Jasny
as Self
2009
0.0
🎬
On the Trail of the New Wave
as Self
2009
0.0
Making of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
as Self
2009
2.0
It Is Hell with the Princess
as čert Elrebub
2009
5.4
🎬
Golden Sixties
as Self
2009
0.0
Chelsea on the Rocks
as Self
2008
5.6
Fog City Mavericks
as Self
2007
8.5
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
as Self
2005
6.2
Remembering Ragtime
as Self
2004
0.0
François Truffaut, une autobiographie
as Self
2004
6.2
🎬
A Room Nearby
as Self (voice)
2003
0.0
Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
as Self
2003
6.9
A Decade Under the Influence
as Self
2003
7.9
The Making of 'Amadeus'
as Self - Director
2002
7.4
🎬
An Interview with Milos Forman
as Themself
2002
0.0
🎬
The Beatles Revolution
as Self
2000
0.0
The Directors: Milos Forman
as Self
2000
0.0
Keeping the Faith
as Father Havel
2000
6.1
🎬
In the Shadow of Hollywood
as Self
2000
0.0
Charlie Chaplin: A Tramp's Life
as Self
1998
0.0
Completely Cuckoo
as Self
1997
5.7
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
as Self
1997
6.6
Drawn from Memory
as Self (voice)
1995
0.0
Why Havel?
as voice
1991
0.0
The Republic Pictures Story
as Self
1991
0.0
New Year's Day
as Lazlo
1990
4.3
Heartburn
as Dimitri
1986
6.0
The Statue of Liberty
as Self - Film Director
1985
6.7
Chytilová Versus Forman
as Self
1982
0.0
Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter
as Reader - The Biddle Brothers (voice)
1982
5.7
🎬
Please Turn the Page
as Self
1977
6.0
TVTV Looks at the Oscars
as Self
1976
6.0
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as Self
1975
6.0
Spécial cinéma
as Self
1974
0.0
Visions of Eight
as Narrator
1973
7.0
🎬
Film '72
as Self
1971
4.7
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
1968
6.8
Omnibus
as Self
1967
7.2
🎬
An Occasion to Speak
as Self
1966
0.0
Tam za lesem
1962
0.0
Ceiling
1962
5.3
Vintage Car
1957
6.1
Silvery Wind
1956
5.6
🎬
Slovo dělá ženu
1953
5.0
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
Milos Forman: What Happened Was...
as Self
N/A
0.0