Miloš Forman

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 mu…

Directed

1. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) — Director
2. Amadeus (1984) — Director
3. Man on the Moon (1999) — Director
4. The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996) — Director
5. Hair (1979) — Director
6. Goya's Ghosts (2006) — Director
7. Valmont (1989) — Director
8. The Firemen's Ball (1967) — Director
9. Ragtime (1981) — Director
10. Loves of a Blonde (1965) — Director
11. Taking Off (1971) — Director
12. Black Peter (1964) — Director
13. Audition (1964) — Director
14. I Miss Sonia Henie (1971) — Director
15. Visions of Eight (1973) — Director
16. A Well Paid Walk (1966) — Director
17. Laterna magika II (1960) — Director
18. A Walk Worthwhile (2009) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond (2017) — Self
2. Keeping the Faith (2000) — Father Havel
3. Heartburn (1986) — Dimitri
4. Beloved (2011) — Jaromil
5. The Oscars (1953) — Self
6. Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin (2003) — Self
7. A Decade Under the Influence (2003) — Self
8. Once Upon a Time… One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (2011) — Self
9. The Dick Cavett Show (1968) — Self - Guest
10. Visions of Eight (1973) — Narrator
11. The Statue of Liberty (1985) — Self - Film Director
12. Forman vs. Forman (2019) — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
13. New Year's Day (1990) — Lazlo
14. Chelsea on the Rocks (2008) — Self
15. It Is Hell with the Princess (2009) — čert Elrebub
16. Ceiling (1962)
17. Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You… (2009) — Self
18. The Making of 'Amadeus' (2002) — Self - Director
19. Omnibus (1967) — Self
20. Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter (1982) — Reader - The Biddle Brothers (voice)
21. American Playhouse (1982) — Self (voice)
22. François Truffaut, une autobiographie (2004) — Self
23. Completely Cuckoo (1997) — Self
24. Filmmakers vs. Tycoons (2005) — Self
25. Who Is Henry Jaglom? (1997) — Self
26. Vintage Car (1957)
27. Film '72 (1971) — Self
28. Silvery Wind (1956)
29. Sodankylä Forever (2010) — Self
30. Cérémonie des César (1976) — Self - President
31. To Make a Comedy Is No Fun (2016) — Self
32. TVTV Looks at the Oscars (1976) — Self
33. There behind the forest (1962)
34. Mark Donskoy, King and Jester (2011)
35. CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel (2018) — Self
36. Slovo dělá ženu (1953)
37. Fog City Mavericks (2007) — Self
38. Making of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (2009) — Self
39. Spécial cinéma (1974) — Self
40. Carrière, 250 Meters (2011) — Self