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Miloš Forman is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Executive producer American born on 18 february 1932 at Čáslav (Republique tcheque)
Jan Tomáš Forman ([ˈjan ˈtomaːʃ ˈforman]; born 18 February 1932), known as Miloš Forman ([ˈmɪloʃ ˈforman], /ˈmiːloʊʃ ˈfɔərmən/), is a Czech film director, screenwriter, actor, and professor, who until 1968 lived and worked primarily in the former Czechoslovakia.
Forman was one of the most important directors of the Czechoslovak New Wave. His 1967 film The Fireman's Ball, on the surface a naturalistic representation of an ill-fated social event in a provincial town, was seen by both movie scholars and authorities in Czechoslovakia as a biting satire on Eastern European Communism, resulting in it being banned for many years in Forman's home country.
Since Forman left Czechoslovakia, two of his films, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus, have acquired particular renown, both gaining him an Academy Award for Best Director. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was the second to win all five major Academy Awards (Best Picture, Actor in Leading Role, Actress in Leading Role, Director, and Screenplay) following It Happened One Night in 1934, an accomplishment not repeated until 1991 by The Silence of the Lambs. Forman was also nominated for a Best Director Oscar for The People vs. Larry Flynt. He has also won Golden Globe, Cannes, Berlinale, BAFTA, Cesar, David di Donatello, European Film Academy, and Czech Lion awards.
Forman lived with relatives during World War II and later discovered that his biological father was in fact a Jewish architect, Otto Kohn, a survivor of the Holocaust. He has a brother, Pavel Forman, 12 years older, a Czech painter who, after the 1968 invasion, emigrated to Australia. In his youth, he wanted to become a theatrical producer, bypassing theater. Through his biological father, he is a half-brother of mathematician Joseph J. Kohn.
After the war, Forman attended the elite King George boarding school in the spa town Poděbrady, where his fellow students included Václav Havel, the Mašín brothers and future film-makers Ivan Passer and Jerzy Skolimowski. He later studied screenwriting at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. He was assistant of Alfred Radok, creator of Laterna Magika. During the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in summer 1968, he left Europe for the United States.
Forman's first wife was Czech movie star Jana Brejchová. They met during the making of the movie Štěňata (1957). They divorced in 1962. Forman has twin sons with his second wife, Czech actress Věra Křesadlová-Formanová. They separated in 1969. Both sons, Petr Forman and Matěj Forman, born 1964, are involved in the theatre. Then Forman married Martina Zbořilová on November 28, 1999. They also have twin sons, Jim and Andy (born 1999, named for comics Jim Carrey and Andy Kaufman), and reside in Connecticut, USA.
In 2006, he received the Hanno R. Ellenbogen Citizenship Award presented by the Prague Society for International Cooperation.
He is a professor emeritus at Columbia University.
The asteroid 11333 Forman was named after Forman.
In 2009 a documentary film about Forman directed by Miloš Šmídmajer was produced – Miloš Forman: Co te nezabije....
Forman has written poems and published an autobiography called Turnaround.
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Birth name Jan Tomáš Forman
Nationality USA
Birth 18 february 1932 at Čáslav (Republique tcheque)
Death 13 april 2018 (at 86 years)
Awards Academy Award for Best Director
Nationality USA
Birth 18 february 1932 at Čáslav (Republique tcheque)
Death 13 april 2018 (at 86 years)
Awards Academy Award for Best Director
Forman was one of the most important directors of the Czechoslovak New Wave. His 1967 film The Fireman's Ball, on the surface a naturalistic representation of an ill-fated social event in a provincial town, was seen by both movie scholars and authorities in Czechoslovakia as a biting satire on Eastern European Communism, resulting in it being banned for many years in Forman's home country.
Since Forman left Czechoslovakia, two of his films, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus, have acquired particular renown, both gaining him an Academy Award for Best Director. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was the second to win all five major Academy Awards (Best Picture, Actor in Leading Role, Actress in Leading Role, Director, and Screenplay) following It Happened One Night in 1934, an accomplishment not repeated until 1991 by The Silence of the Lambs. Forman was also nominated for a Best Director Oscar for The People vs. Larry Flynt. He has also won Golden Globe, Cannes, Berlinale, BAFTA, Cesar, David di Donatello, European Film Academy, and Czech Lion awards.
Biography
Forman was born in Čáslav, Czechoslovakia (present-day Czech Republic), the son of Anna (née Švábová), who ran a summer hotel. When young, he believed his biological father to be Rudolf Forman, a professor. Both Anna and Rudolf Forman were Protestants. During the Nazi occupation, a member of the anti-Nazi Underground named Rudolf Forman as a member of the Underground while being interrogated by the Gestapo. Rudolf was arrested for distributing banned books and died in Buchenwald in 1944. Forman's mother died in Auschwitz in 1943. Forman has stated that he did not fully understand what had happened to them until he saw footage of the concentration camps when he was 16.Forman lived with relatives during World War II and later discovered that his biological father was in fact a Jewish architect, Otto Kohn, a survivor of the Holocaust. He has a brother, Pavel Forman, 12 years older, a Czech painter who, after the 1968 invasion, emigrated to Australia. In his youth, he wanted to become a theatrical producer, bypassing theater. Through his biological father, he is a half-brother of mathematician Joseph J. Kohn.
After the war, Forman attended the elite King George boarding school in the spa town Poděbrady, where his fellow students included Václav Havel, the Mašín brothers and future film-makers Ivan Passer and Jerzy Skolimowski. He later studied screenwriting at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. He was assistant of Alfred Radok, creator of Laterna Magika. During the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in summer 1968, he left Europe for the United States.
Forman's first wife was Czech movie star Jana Brejchová. They met during the making of the movie Štěňata (1957). They divorced in 1962. Forman has twin sons with his second wife, Czech actress Věra Křesadlová-Formanová. They separated in 1969. Both sons, Petr Forman and Matěj Forman, born 1964, are involved in the theatre. Then Forman married Martina Zbořilová on November 28, 1999. They also have twin sons, Jim and Andy (born 1999, named for comics Jim Carrey and Andy Kaufman), and reside in Connecticut, USA.
In 2006, he received the Hanno R. Ellenbogen Citizenship Award presented by the Prague Society for International Cooperation.
He is a professor emeritus at Columbia University.
The asteroid 11333 Forman was named after Forman.
In 2009 a documentary film about Forman directed by Miloš Šmídmajer was produced – Miloš Forman: Co te nezabije....
Forman has written poems and published an autobiography called Turnaround.
Best films
(1975)(Director)
(1984)(Director)
(1979)(Director)
(1981)(Director)
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Filmography of Miloš Forman (29 films)
| Year | Name | Job | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | A Short History of Decay | Executive producer | |
| 2011 | Beloved | Actor | Jaromil |
| 2008 | Chelsea on the Rocks | Actor | Himself |
| 2007 | Fog City Mavericks | Actor | Himself |
| 2006 | Goya's Ghosts | Director, Scriptwriter | |
| 2005 | Nomad: The Warrior | Producer | |
| 2003 | A Decade Under the Influence | Actor | Self |
| 2003 | Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin | Actor | Self |
| 2000 | Keeping the Faith | Actor | Father Havel |
| 1999 | Man on the Moon | Director | |
| 1996 | The People vs. Larry Flynt | Director | |
| 1990 | New Year's Day | Actor | Lazlo |
| 1989 | Valmont | Director, Writer | |
| 1986 | Heartburn | Actor | Dimitri |
| 1985 | The Statue of Liberty | Actor | Self - Film Director |
| 1984 | Amadeus | Director | |
| 1981 | Ragtime | Director | |
| 1979 | Hair | Director | |
| 1975 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Director | |
| 1975 | Male of the Century | Idea | |
| 1973 | Visions of Eight | Actor, Director | Narrator |
| 1971 | Taking Off | Director, Writer | |
| 1969 | The Nail Clippers | Scriptwriter | |
| 1967 | The Firemen's Ball | Director, | |
| 1965 | Loves of a Blonde | Director, | |
| 1964 | Black Peter | Director, | |
| 1964 | Audition | Director, | |
| 1956 | Silvery Wind | Actor | |
| 1955 | Leave It to Me | Scriptwriter |