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Cinema Mourns: Oscar Winner Director Milos Forman Dies at 86

  • Czech-American film director Milos Forman.

    Czech-American film director Milos Forman. | Photo: EFE

Published 14 April 2018
Opinion

He was the second director to win in the Academy's five top categories. 

Milos Forman, acclaimed director of 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest' and 'Amadeus' died Friday in his Connecticut home.

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Forman was born in the Czech Republic in 1932 and studied direction at the Prague Film Academy. Before moving to the United States in 1968, Forman gained fame after two of his Czech films, 'A blonde in Love' and 'The Firemen’s Ball' were nominated for an Oscar in the Best Foreign-Language Film category.    

He was part of what became known as the "Czechoslovak new wave," before Warsaw Pact forces invaded to crush the Prague Spring in 1968.

In 1968 Forman moved to the United States. A few years after he directed his most renowned film, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, which won five Oscars in 1976 for Best Picture, Best Actor in Leading Role, Best Actress in Leading Role, Screenplay and Director.  

The film narrates the story of a prisoner in psychiatric ward, played by Jack Nicholson, who seeks to escape after being the victim of torture.

He became the second director to win the Oscar for five of the Academy’s top categories.  

In 1984 he won eight Oscars with his film 'Amadeus', which tells the story of Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart through the perspective of rival composer Antonio Salieri. 

His last film 'Goya’s Ghost' took on the Spanish Inquisition and was released in 2006. Forman's wife Martina told the Czech news agency CTK he died calmly, surrounded by loved ones after a short illness.

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