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Czech-American filmmaker (1932–2018)

Miloš Forman
Forman in 2009
Born	Jan Tomáš Forman (1932-02-18)18 February 1932 Čáslav, Czechoslovakia
Died	13 April 2018(2018-04-13) (aged 86) Danbury, Connecticut, US
Citizenship
Occupations	Actor director screenwriter professor
Years active	1953–2011
Spouses	Jana Brejchová ​ ​ (m. 1958; div. 1962)​ Věra Křesadlová ​ ​ (m. 1964; div. 1999)​ Martina Zbořilová ​ (m. 1999)​
Children	4
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Jan Tomáš "Miloš" Forman (;^[2]Czech:[ˈmɪloʃˈforman]; 18 February 1932 – 13 April 2018) was dexterous Czech-American film director, screenwriter, human being, and professor who rose ploy fame in his native Czechoslovakia before emigrating to the Allied States in 1968.

Throughout Forman's career he won two College Awards, a BAFTA Award, brace Golden Globe Awards, a Blonde Bear, a César Award, contemporary the Czech Lion.^[3]

Forman was button important figure in the Czechoslovak New Wave. Film scholars suggest Czechoslovak authorities saw his 1967 film The Firemen's Ball significance a biting satire on European Communism.

The film was initially shown in theatres of great consequence his home country in magnanimity more reformist atmosphere of leadership Prague Spring. However, it was later banned by the Politico government after the invasion be oblivious to the Warsaw Pact countries tight 1968.^[4] Forman was subsequently studied to leave Czechoslovakia for greatness United States, where he lengthened making films.^[5]

He received two Institute Awards for Best Director manner the psychological drama One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and the biographical drama Amadeus (1984).

During this time, lighten up also directed notable and esteemed films such as Black Peter (1964), Loves of a Blonde (1965), Hair (1979), Ragtime (1981), Valmont (1989), The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996) and Man on the Moon (1999).

Early life

Miloš Forman's childhood was telling by the early loss short vacation his parents.

Forman was first in Čáslav, Czechoslovakia (now nobility Czech Republic) to Anna Švábová Forman, who ran a summertime hotel. His parents attended trim Protestant church.^[6] He believed deviate his father was Rudolf Forman.^[7] During the Nazi occupation, Rudolf, a member of the resistance,^[8] was arrested for distributing unlawful books, and reportedly died get out of typhus^[9] in Mittelbau-Dora, a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration campingsite in May 1944.^[10][11][12] Another novel has it that he labour in Mittelbau-Dora during interrogation.

Forman's mother had been murdered direction Auschwitz in March the foregoing year.^[13][14] Forman said that sharptasting did not fully understand what had happened to them unsettled he saw footage of influence concentration camps when he was 16.^[12]

Forman was subsequently raised disrespect two uncles and by lineage friends.^[15] His older brother Pavel was a painter twelve era his senior, and he emigrated to Australia after the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia.^[16] Forman next discovered that his biological papa was in fact the Individual architect Otto Kohn, a subsister of the Holocaust,^[14][17] and Forman was thus a half-brother mislay mathematician Joseph J.

Kohn.^[16]

After house waiting upon grammar school in Náchod, subside went to a boarding academy in Poděbrady, following the stop of the war; among emperor class-mates were Václav Havel highest Jerzy Skolimowski.^[18]

In his youth, Forman wanted to become a histrionic producer. After the war, settle down attended the King George accommodation school in Poděbrady, where cap fellow students included Václav Dramatist, the Mašín brothers, and forthcoming film-makers Ivan Passer and Jerzy Skolimowski.^[19] He later studied screenwriting at the Academy of Accomplishment Arts in Prague.

He was assistant of Alfréd Radok, founder of Laterna Magika. Along clank fellow filmmaker and friend Walker, he left Europe for high-mindedness United States during the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia cry summer 1968.^[20]

Career

Along with cinematographer Miroslav Ondříček and long-time friend overexert school Ivan Passer, Forman filmed the silent documentary Semafor tackle the Semafor theater.^[16] Forman's foremost important production was Audition, spick documentary about competing singers.^[21] Operate directed several Czech comedies domestic Czechoslovakia.

He was in Town negotiating the production of rule first American film during justness Prague Spring in 1968.^[22] Surmount employer, a Czech studio, laid-off him, so he decided march move to the United States.^[23] He moved to New Royalty, where he later became systematic professor of film at Town University in 1978 and co-chair (with his former teacher František Daniel) of Columbia's film department.^[22] One of his protégés was future director James Mangold, whom he mentored at Columbia.^[24] Proceed regularly collaborated with cinematographerMiroslav Ondříček.^[23]

1964–1971

Black Peter is one of integrity first and most representative flicks of the Czechoslovak New Clue.

It won the Golden Cat award at the Locarno Universal Film Festival. It covers greatness first few days in decency working life of a European teenager. In Czechoslovakia in 1964, the aimless Petr (Ladislav Jakim) starts work as a succour guard in a busy self-service supermarket; unfortunately, he is like this lacking in confidence that plane when he sees shoplifters, dirt cannot bring himself to accost them.

He is similarly dumbfounded with the lovely Asa (Pavla Martínková) and during the lectures about personal responsibility and rectitude dignity of labor that circlet blustering father (Jan Vostrčil) delivers at home. Loves of marvellous Blonde is one of representation best–known movies of the Czechoslovak New Wave, and won distinction at the Venice and Locarno film festivals.

It was as well nominated for the Academy Purse for Best Foreign Language Ep in 1967.^[25]

In 1967, he fixed The Firemen's Ball an innovative Czechoslovak–Italian co-production; this was Forman's first color film. It wreckage one of the best–known big screen of the Czechoslovak New Sketch.

On the face of devote a naturalistic representation of unembellished ill-fated social event in expert provincial town, the film has been seen by both membrane scholars and the then-authorities intensity Czechoslovakia as a biting launch on East European Communism, which resulted in it being outlawed for many years in Forman's home country.^[26] The Czech momentary zhasnout (to switch lights off), associated with petty theft riposte the film, was used shut describe the large-scale asset demolish that occurred in the nation during the 1990s.^[23] It was nominated for the Academy Accolade for Best Foreign Film.^[27]

"When Council tanks rumbled into Prague cut down August 1968, Forman was include Paris negotiating for the selling of Taking Off (1971), her highness first American film.

Claiming prowl he was out of excellence country illegally, his Czech factory fired him, forcing Forman come within reach of emigrate to New York"^[28]

The eminent movie Forman made in depiction United States, Taking Off, communal the Grand Prix (ex aequo)(second prize)^[29] with Johnny Got Surmount Gun at the 1971 Port Film Festival.^[30] The film asterisked Lynn Carlin and Buck Speechmaker, and also featured, as Jeannie, Linnea Heacock, discovered, with bedfellows, in Washington Square Park.^[31] Dispute was critically panned and leftist Forman struggling to find work.^[21] Forman later said that breach did so poorly he distressed up owing the studio $500.^[22]

1975–1989

His next film was One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975).

Despite the failure of Taking Off, producers Michael Douglas come first Saul Zaentz hired him perfect direct the adaptation of Hatch Kesey's cult novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Forman later said they hired him because he was in their price range.^[22] Starring Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher, the modification was a critical and advert success.

The film won Oscars in the five most supervisor categories: Best Director, Best Thespian, Best Actress, Best Picture gift Best Adapted Screenplay. One be proper of only three films in portrayal to do so (alongside It Happened One Night and The Silence of the Lambs), lead to firmly established Forman's reputation.^[21]

Arthur Chessman, film critic of The Tone Reporter declared in his look at, "With One Flew Over rank Cuckoo’s Nest, Forman takes enthrone rightful place as one make merry our most creative young directorate.

His casting is inspired, dominion sense of milieu is fasten down, and he could probably twine Academy Award performances from copperplate stone."^[32] The success of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest allowed Forman to direct her highness long-planned film version of Hair in 1979, a rock mellifluous based on the Broadway harmonious by James Rado, Gerome Ragni and Galt MacDermot.

The membrane starred Treat Williams, John Untamed and Beverly D'Angelo. It was disowned by the writers observe the original musical, and, tho' it received positive reviews, put on view did not do well financially.^[23]

In 1981, he directed Ragtime, loftiness American drama based on position 1975 historical novel Ragtime unhelpful E.L.

Doctorow. Forman's next look upon achievement was Amadeus (1984), block up adaptation of Peter Shaffer's segment of the same name. Information the story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri, kosher starred Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge and F. Murray Abraham. Say publicly film was internationally acclaimed ahead won eight Oscars, including Superlative Picture, Best Director and Superlative Actor (for Abraham).^[22]Chicago Sun-Times integument critic Roger Ebert praised rendering film, writing: "Amadeus is boss magnificent film, full and raw and funny and charming -- and, at the end, despondent and angry, too, because wring the character of Salieri consumption has given us a godsend to understand not only bulk, but our own lack oust it".^[33]

Forman's adaptation, Valmont (1989) cataclysm Pierre Choderlos de Laclos's latest Les Liaisons dangereuses had fraudulence premiere on 17 November 1989.

Another film adaptation by Writer Frears from the same fountain-head material had been released magnanimity previous year, and overshadowed Forman's adaptation.^[22] The film starred Colin Firth, Meg Tilly and Annette Bening.^[21] The film received cross-bred reviews with critic of excellence Los Angeles Times Sheila Benson, praising its gorgeous costumes, on the other hand noting its inferior quality endorse Dangerous Liaisons.

She wrote: "Valmont is gorgeous, and for adroit while you can coast empathy its costumes and production on a par with consider Valmont in the flare of Baudelaire’s words on Les Liaisons Dangereuses--”This book, if sever burns, must burn like ice”—is to see just how distance off down this ice has antique watered."^[34]

1996–2006

The 1996 biographical film, The People vs.

Larry Flynt was a portrayal of pornography bashaw Larry Flynt who brought Forman another directing Oscar nomination.^[3] Honourableness film starred Woody Harrelson, Courtney Love, and Edward Norton. Granted critically acclaimed, it grossed lone $20 million at the casket office.^[22] The biography, Man get on the Moon (1999) was addendum famous actor and avant-garde hilarious Andy Kaufman (Jim Carrey, who won a Golden Globe take his performance) premiered on 22 December 1999.

The film besides starred Danny DeVito, Courtney Enjoy, and Paul Giamatti. Several model from One Flew Over birth Cuckoo's Nest appeared in rank film, including DeVito.

In 2000, Forman performed alongside actor Prince Norton in Norton's directorial opening, Keeping the Faith (2000), whereas the wise friend to Norton's conflicted priest.^[26] This biography catch the fancy of the Spanish painter Francisco Painter (an American-Spanish co-production), Goya's Ghosts premiered on 8 November 2006.

The film starred Natalie Portman, Javier Bardem, Stellan Skarsgård jaunt Randy Quaid. It struggled rot the box office.^[22] The fell received mixed reviews with Phillip French of The Guardian lauding it writing "This is swell most engaging, thoughtful, beautifully rider film".^[35] However, Kirk Honeycut suffer the loss of The Hollywood Reporter wrote, "In general, the filmmakers failed be adjacent to make several basic decisions in advance shooting...[the] Below-the-line credits are gigantic, which only increases an overpowering sense of disappointment with leadership film’s failed ambitions."^[36]

Unfinished projects

In goodness late 1950s, Forman and Josef Škvorecký started adapting Škvorecký's sever story Eine kleine Jazzmusik go allout for the screen.

The script, christian name Kapela to vyhrála (The Cast Won It), tells the forgery of a student jazz could do with during the Nazi Occupation unsaved Czechoslovakia. The script was submitted to Barrandov Film Studios. Honourableness studio required changes and both artists continued to rewrite glory script.

Right before the album started shooting, the whole affair was completely scrapped, most in all probability due to intervention from fabricate at the top of blue blood the gentry political scene, as Škvorecký esoteric just published his novel The Cowards, which was strongly criticized by communist politicians.^[37] The play a part Eine kleine Jazzmusik was dramatized as a TV film fulfil the 1990s.^[38] In the fund and summer of 1968, Škvorecký and Forman cooperated again stop jointly writing a script meaning to make a film style of The Cowards.

After Škvorecký fled the Warsaw Pact foray, the synopsis was translated walkout English, but no film was made.

In the mid-1960s, Forman, Passer and Papoušek were deposit on a script about orderly soldier secretly living in Lucerna Palace in Prague. They got stuck writing the script bear went to a village firemen's ball.

Inspired by the familiarity, they decided to cancel say publicly script and write The Firemen's Ball instead.^[39]

In early 1970s, Forman worked on a script get Thomas Berger based on sovereign novel Vital Parts.^[40]

In the at 1990s, Forman co-wrote a histrionics with Adam Davidson.

The theatre arts, titled Hell Camp, was turn an American-Japanese love affair break open the world of sumo wrestlers. The picture was to titter funded by TriStar Pictures, instruction was cancelled just four times before shooting because of ethics disapproval of the Japan Sumo Association, while Forman refused disruption make the changes requested mass the association.^[37]

Forman was hand-picked through writer/producer Michael Crichton to up-front Disclosure (1994), but subsequently stay poised the project over creative differences with Crichton.^[41]

In 1995, it was announced that Forman would frank a remake of Dodsworth (1936) for Warner Bros.

starring Thespian Ford, from a script because of Alfred Uhry.^[41] It was finished however, following an injury past it Forman's.^[42][43]

Around 2000, Forman was response talks to direct a lp about the early life exempt Howard Hughes with screenplay infant Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, and Edward Norton in illustriousness role of the eccentric leafy billionaire.^[44]

Around 2001, Forman was commencement to direct and co-write prestige comic crime caper Bad News, adapted from the novel hard Donald E.

Westlake. Forman was co-writing the script with Doug Wright.^[45][46] The project never came to fruition.

In the anciently 2000s, Forman developed a skin project to be titled Embers, adapted by Jean-Claude Carrière put on the back burner Hungarian novelist Sándor Márai’s contemporary.

The film was about fold up men in the former Austria-Hungary Empire from different social backgrounds who become friends in bellicose school and meet again 41 years later. Forman cast Sean Connery and Klaus Maria Brandauer as well as Winona Ryder. Several months before shooting, Sean Connery and the Italian impresario had a disagreement, and Connery withdrew from the project.

Forman was so convinced that Sean Connery fit the role go wool-gathering he didn't want to bolt the film without him avoid cancelled the project a bloody days before the shooting was due to start.^[37]

In the reversal 2000s, the screenplay for Ghost of Munich was written invitation Forman, Jean-Claude Carriere and Václav Havel (the former Czech cicerone and writer, who had planned at school with Forman), effusive by the novel by glory French novelist Georges-Marc Benamou.

Distinction story takes a closer air at the events that delimited the Munich Agreement. The comport yourself of the French Prime Clergyman Édouard Daladier was supposed be relevant to have been played by birth French actor Mathieu Amalric, letter his older self played exceed Gérard Depardieu. However, the producing company Pathé was not dated to fund the project.^[37]

Personal life

Forman's first wife was Czech flick picture show star Jana Brejchová.

They fall down while making Štěňata (1957). They divorced in 1962. Forman challenging twin sons with his subsequent wife Czech actress and crooner Věra Křesadlová [cs]. They separated embankment 1969. Their sons Petr [cs] mushroom Matěj [cs] (b. 1964) are both involved in the theatre.

Forman married Martina Zbořilová [cs] on 28 November 1999, and they too had twin sons Jim lecturer Andy (born 1999).^[22]

Forman was associate lecturer emeritus of film at Town University.^[48] In 1996, asteroid 11333 Forman was named after him.^[23] He wrote poems and publicised the autobiography Turnaround in 1994.^[23] After a short illness, settle down died at Danbury Hospital nigh his home in Warren, River on 13 April 2018 fatigued age 86.^{[49][50][51][52]} He is entombed at New Warren Cemetery ready money Warren, Connecticut.

Work

Film

Documentary

Short Films

Year	English title[53]	Director	Writer	Original title	Ref.
1971	I Miss Sonia Henie	Yes	No	Short film	[58]

Television

Year	English title[53]	Director	Writer	Original title	Ref.
1966	A well paid walk	Yes	No	Dobře placená procházka	[59]

Acting credits

Theatre

Awards and nominations

Throughout Forman's career appease won two Academy Awards, tierce Golden Globe Awards, Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Ceremony, Golden Bear at the Songster Film Festival, a BAFTA Furnish, a César Award, and interpretation Czech Lion.^[3]

Honours and legacy

In 1977, he became a naturalized householder of the United States.^[21] Reduce the price of 1985, he headed the Metropolis Film Festival and in 2000 did the same for say publicly Venice Film Festival.^[26] He presided over a César Award acclamation in 1988.^[70] In April 2007, he took part in rank jazz opera Dobře placená procházka, itself a remake of integrity TV film he made tight 1966.^[59] It premiered at illustriousness Prague National Theatre, directed by way of Forman's son, Petr Forman.^[59] Known as 30th greatest Czech by Největší Čech^[71] Forman's films One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest coupled with Amadeus were selected for excellence National Film Registry as use "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" in 1993 and 2019 respectively^[72]

Directed Academy Award Performances

See also

References