Miloš Forman

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Miloš Forman's childhood was marked by the early loss of his parents. Forman was born in Čáslav, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic) to Anna Švábová Forman, who ran a summer hotel. His parents attended a Protestant church.[https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/14/obituaries/milos-forman-dead.html#:~:text=Forman%20vaguely%20told%20interviewers%20that,%2C%E2%80%9D%20who%20ended%20the%20mystery "Miloš Forman obituary"]. New York Times, April 14, 2018 He believed that his father was Rudolf Forman.{{Cite news |last=Bergan |first=Ronald |date=2018-04-15 |title=Miloš Forman obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/apr/15/milos-forman-obituary |access-date=2024-11-05 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}} During the Nazi occupation, Rudolf, a member of the resistance,{{cite web |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/milos-forman-from-orphan-of-nazi-camps-to-oscar-winning-director/ |title=Milos Forman, from orphan of Nazi camps to Oscar-winning director |publisher=AFP |last=Flemr |first=Jan |website=Times of Israel |date=14 April 2018}}, April 14, 2018 was arrested for distributing banned books, and reportedly died from typhusConf. scan of document [https://collections.arolsen-archives.org/en/archive/5876788/?p=1&s=Rudolf%20Forman&doc_id=5876800 from the Arolsen Archives] where the words "Fleckfieber" (German for typhus) and apparently "Dora Hosp." are mentioned in Mittelbau-Dora, a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp in May 1944.See [http://totenbuch.dora.de/names/details/letter/f/lang/de/page/9/person/2657/ref/names entry Rudolf Forman in the memorial book] of the Mittelbau-Dora concentration campSee [https://collections.arolsen-archives.org/en/search/?s=rudolf%20forman (untick the "Include synonym" box) documents on Rudolf Forman], prisoner number 16209, from his detention and death in Buchenwald in the Arolsen ArchivesWakeman, John. World Film Directors, Volume 2. H. W. Wilson Company. 1988. 349–356. Another version has it that he died in Mittelbau-Dora during interrogation. Forman's mother had been murdered in Auschwitz in March the previous year.She can be found as Anna Forman at the link [http://www.auschwitz.org/muzeum/informacja-o-wiezniach/ (Information on Auschwitz Prisoners); her prisoner number seems to be unknown]Tugend, Tom. (19 July 2007) [http://www.jewishjournal.com/arts/article/milos_forman_directs_natalie_portman_in_goyas_ghosts_film_melds_art_tour/ Milos Forman directs Natalie Portman in 'Goya's Ghosts'—film melds art tour and history | Arts]. Jewish Journal. Retrieved on 23 June 2011. Forman said that he did not fully understand what had happened to them until he saw footage of the concentration camps when he was 16.

Forman was subsequently raised by two uncles and by family friends.[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Milo-Forman Milos Forman Biography], Britannica.com, 14 February 2018; retrieved 25 February 2018. His older brother Pavel was a painter twelve years his senior, and he emigrated to Australia after the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia.{{cite web|url=https://cz.cityspy.network/prague/features/story-famed-czech-director-milos-forman/|title=The Story of Famed Czech Director Miloš Forman|work=CitySpy Network // Czech Republic / Prague |date=28 August 2017|publisher=Cityspy|access-date=14 April 2018}} Forman later discovered that his biological father was in fact the Jewish architect Otto Kohn, a survivor of the Holocaust,[http://www.enotes.com/turnaround-salem Turnaround Review – Milos Forman – Salem on Literature]. Enotes.com. Retrieved on 23 June 2011. and Forman was thus a half-brother of mathematician Joseph J. Kohn.

In his youth, Forman wanted to become a theatrical producer. After attending grammar school in Náchod, he went to the King George boarding school in Poděbrady, following the end of the war; fellow students included Václav Havel, the Mašín brothers, and future film-makers Ivan Passer and Jerzy Skolimowski.[https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/mar/11/1?INTCMP=SRCH I Had a Wild Life]. The Guardian; retrieved 23 June 2011.Náchod to krásné město Kostelec. Náchod 2004, {{ISBN|80-85274-30-2}}, p. 119.

He later studied screenwriting at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. He was assistant of Alfréd Radok, creator of Laterna Magika. Along with fellow filmmaker and friend Passer, he left Europe for the United States during the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in summer 1968.{{cite news|last=Penner|first=John|url=https://www.latimes.com/la-me-col1-milos-forman-czech-film-ivan-passer-2019-story.html|title=Milos Forman, Ivan Passer and their 73-year friendship: Childhood, escaping Czechoslovakia and conquering Hollywood|work=Los Angeles Times|date=13 December 2019|access-date=10 January 2020}}

Along with cinematographer Miroslav Ondříček and long-time friend from school Ivan Passer, Forman filmed the silent documentary Semafor about the Semafor theater. Forman's first important production was Audition, a documentary about competing singers. He directed several Czech comedies in Czechoslovakia. He was in Paris negotiating the production of his first American film during the Prague Spring in 1968. His employer, a Czech studio, fired him, so he decided to move to the United States. He moved to New York, where he later became a professor of film at Columbia University in 1978 and co-chair (with his former teacher František Daniel) of Columbia's film department. One of his protégés was future director James Mangold, whom he mentored at Columbia.{{cite web|url=https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/1684-a-visit-to-james-mangold-s-office|title=A Visit to James Mangold's Office|publisher=Criterion.com|access-date=14 April 2018}} He regularly collaborated with cinematographer Miroslav Ondříček.

Black Peter is one of the first and most representative films of the Czechoslovak New Wave. It won the Golden Leopard award at the Locarno International Film Festival. It covers the first few days in the working life of a Czech teenager. In Czechoslovakia in 1964, the aimless Petr (Ladislav Jakim) starts work as a security guard in a busy self-service supermarket; unfortunately, he is so lacking in confidence that even when he sees shoplifters, he cannot bring himself to confront them. He is similarly tongue-tied with the lovely Asa (Pavla Martínková) and during the lectures about personal responsibility and the dignity of labor that his blustering father (Jan Vostrčil) delivers at home. Loves of a Blonde is one of the best–known movies of the Czechoslovak New Wave, and won awards at the Venice and Locarno film festivals. It was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1967.{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1967 |title=The 39th Academy Awards (1967) Nominees and Winners |access-date=9 November 2011|work=oscars.org}}

In 1967, he directed The Firemen's Ball an original Czechoslovak–Italian co-production; this was Forman's first color film. It is one of the best–known movies of the Czechoslovak New Wave. On the face of it a naturalistic representation of an ill-fated social event in a provincial town, the film has been seen by both film scholars and the then-authorities in Czechoslovakia as a biting satire on East European Communism, which resulted in it being banned for many years in Forman's home country. The Czech term zhasnout (to switch lights off), associated with petty theft in the film, was used to describe the large-scale asset stripping that occurred in the country during the 1990s. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1969 |title=The 41st Academy Awards (1969) Nominees and Winners |access-date=15 November 2011|work=oscars.org}}

"When Soviet tanks rumbled into Prague in August 1968, Forman was in Paris negotiating for the production of Taking Off (1971), his first American film. Claiming that he was out of the country illegally, his Czech studio fired him, forcing Forman to emigrate to New York"{{cite web |last1=cofresi |first1=diana |title=Milos Forman ~ About Milos Forman |url=https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/milos-forman-about-milos-forman/597/ |website=American Masters |publisher=PBS |access-date=23 October 2023 |date=12 December 2003}}

The first movie Forman made in the United States, Taking Off, shared the Grand Prix (ex aequo)(second prize){{cite web |title=TAKING OFF |url=https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/f/taking-off/ |website=Festival de Cannes |access-date=22 October 2023}} with Johnny Got His Gun at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival.{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/2401/year/1971.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Taking Off |access-date=2009-04-13|work=festival-cannes.com}} The film starred Lynn Carlin and Buck Henry, and also featured, as Jeannie, Linnea Heacock, discovered, with friends, in Washington Square Park.{{cite web |last1=Horwitz |first1=Jonah |title=TAKING OFF: Forman's First American Film (and Last Czech Film ?) |url=https://cinema.wisc.edu/blog/2015/04/01/taking-formans-first-american-film-and-last-czech-film |website=Cinematheque |publisher=cinema.wisc.edu |access-date=23 October 2023 |quote=This essay on Miloš Forman's Taking Off (1971) was written by Jonah Horwitz, Ph.D Candidate in the Communication Arts Department at UW Madison. A 35mm print of Taking Off, part of our "Universal '71" series, will screen on Sunday, April 5, at 2 p.m., in the Chazen Museum of Art.}} It was critically panned and left Forman struggling to find work.{{cite web|url=https://cz.cityspy.network/prague/features/story-famed-czech-director-milos-forman-part-ii/|title=The Story of Famed Czech Director Miloš Forman (Part II)|date=6 September 2017|publisher=CitySpy|access-date=14 April 2018}} Forman later said that it did so poorly he ended up owing the studio $500.

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His next film was One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975). Despite the failure of Taking Off, producers Michael Douglas and Saul Zaentz hired him to direct the adaptation of Ken Kesey's cult novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Forman later said they hired him because he was in their price range. Starring Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher, the adaptation was a critical and commercial success. The film won Oscars in the five most important categories: Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay. One of only three films in history to do so (alongside It Happened One Night and The Silence of the Lambs), it firmly established Forman's reputation.

Arthur Knight, film critic of The Hollywood Reporter declared in his review, "With One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Forman takes his rightful place as one of our most creative young directors. His casting is inspired, his sense of milieu is assured, and he could probably wring Academy Award performances from a stone."{{cite web|url= https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/one-flew-cuckoos-nest-review-1975-movie-1162586/|title= 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest': THR's 1975 Review|website= The Hollywood Reporter|date= 19 November 2018|accessdate= July 19, 2023}} The success of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest allowed Forman to direct his long-planned film version of Hair in 1979, a rock musical based on the Broadway musical by James Rado, Gerome Ragni and Galt MacDermot. The film starred Treat Williams, John Savage and Beverly D'Angelo. It was disowned by the writers of the original musical, and, although it received positive reviews, it did not do well financially.

In 1981, he directed Ragtime, the American drama based on the 1975 historical novel Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow. Forman's next important achievement was Amadeus (1984), an adaptation of Peter Shaffer's play of the same name. Retelling the story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri, it starred Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge and F. Murray Abraham. The film was internationally acclaimed and won eight Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor (for Abraham). Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert praised the film, writing: "Amadeus is a magnificent film, full and tender and funny and charming -- and, at the end, sad and angry, too, because in the character of Salieri it has given us a way to understand not only greatness, but our own lack of it".{{cite web|url= https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/amadeus-1984|title= Amadeus - Movie Review|website= Rogerebert.com|accessdate= July 19, 2023}}

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Forman's adaptation, Valmont (1989) of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos's novel Les Liaisons dangereuses had its premiere on 17 November 1989. Another film adaptation by Stephen Frears from the same source material had been released the previous year, and overshadowed Forman's adaptation. The film starred Colin Firth, Meg Tilly and Annette Bening. The film received mixed reviews with critic of the Los Angeles Times Sheila Benson, praising its gorgeous costumes, but noting its inferior quality to Dangerous Liaisons. She wrote: "Valmont is gorgeous, and for a while you can coast on its costumes and production details....But to consider Valmont in the light of Baudelaire’s words on Les Liaisons Dangereuses--”This book, if it burns, must burn like ice”—is to see just how far down this ice has been watered."{{cite web|url= https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-11-17-ca-1660-story.html|title= MOVIE REVIEW : 'Valmont': A Not So Dangerous 'Liaisons'|website= Los Angeles Times|date= 17 November 1989|accessdate= July 19, 2023}}

The 1996 biographical film, The People vs. Larry Flynt was a portrayal of pornography mogul Larry Flynt who brought Forman another directing Oscar nomination. The film starred Woody Harrelson, Courtney Love, and Edward Norton. Though critically acclaimed, it grossed only $20 million at the box office. The biography, Man on the Moon (1999) was of famous actor and avant-garde comic Andy Kaufman (Jim Carrey, who won a Golden Globe for his performance) premiered on 22 December 1999. The film also starred Danny DeVito, Courtney Love, and Paul Giamatti. Several actors from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest appeared in the film, including DeVito.

In 2000, Forman performed alongside actor Edward Norton in Norton's directorial debut, Keeping the Faith (2000), as the wise friend to Norton's conflicted priest. This biography of the Spanish painter Francisco Goya (an American-Spanish co-production), Goya's Ghosts premiered on 8 November 2006. The film starred Natalie Portman, Javier Bardem, Stellan Skarsgård and Randy Quaid. It struggled at the box office. The film received mixed reviews with Phillip French of The Guardian lauding it writing "This is a most engaging, thoughtful, beautifully mounted film".{{cite news|url= https://www.theguardian.com/film/2007/may/06/worldcinema.drama1|title= Review Goya's Ghosts|website= The Guardian|date= 5 May 2007|accessdate= July 19, 2023|last1= French|first1= Philip}} However, Kirk Honeycut from The Hollywood Reporter wrote, "In general, the filmmakers failed to make several basic decisions before shooting...[the] Below-the-line credits are terrific, which only increases an overwhelming sense of disappointment with the film’s failed ambitions."{{cite web|url= https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/goyas-ghosts-159042/|title= Goya's Ghosts|website= The Hollywood Reporter|date= 19 July 2007|accessdate= July 19, 2023}}

In the late 1950s, Forman and Josef Škvorecký started adapting Škvorecký's short story Eine kleine Jazzmusik for the screen. The script, named Kapela to vyhrála (The Band Won It), tells the story of a student jazz band during the Nazi Occupation of Czechoslovakia. The script was submitted to Barrandov Film Studios. The studio required changes and both artists continued to rewrite the script. Right before the film started shooting, the whole project was completely scrapped, most probably due to intervention from people at the top of the political scene, as Škvorecký had just published his novel The Cowards, which was strongly criticized by communist politicians.{{cite web|url=https://milosforman.com/en/about/projects|title=Unrealized Projects :: Miloš Forman|website=milosforman.com}} The story Eine kleine Jazzmusik was dramatized as a TV film in the 1990s.[http://www.csfd.cz/film/23448-eine-kleine-jazzmusik/prehled/ ČSFD: Eine kleine Jazzmusik (TV film)] In the spring and summer of 1968, Škvorecký and Forman cooperated again by jointly writing a script synopsis to make a film version of The Cowards. After Škvorecký fled the Warsaw Pact invasion, the synopsis was translated into English, but no film was made.

In the mid-1960s, Forman, Passer and Papoušek were working on a script about a soldier secretly living in Lucerna Palace in Prague. They got stuck writing the script and went to a village firemen's ball. Inspired by the experience, they decided to cancel the script and write The Firemen's Ball instead.{{Cite web|url=https://milosforman.com/cz/movies/the-firemens-ball|title=Hoří, má panenko :: Miloš Forman|website=milosforman.com|access-date=7 February 2020}}

In early 1970s, Forman worked on a script with Thomas Berger based on his novel Vital Parts.{{cite web|url=https://www.themorgan.org/literary-historical/87783|title=Vital parts : carbon copy of a typescript with autograph corrections, signed / screenplay by Miloš Forman and Thomas Berger.|website=The Morgan Library & Museum|date=25 July 2017 |accessdate=September 5, 2022}}

In the early 1990s, Forman co-wrote a screenplay with Adam Davidson. The screenplay, titled Hell Camp, was about an American-Japanese love affair in the world of sumo wrestlers. The picture was to be funded by TriStar Pictures, and was cancelled just four days before shooting because of the disapproval of the Japan Sumo Association, while Forman refused to make the changes requested by the association.

Forman was hand-picked by writer/producer Michael Crichton to direct Disclosure (1994), but subsequently left the project over creative differences with Crichton.

In 1995, it was announced that Forman would direct a remake of Dodsworth (1936) for Warner Bros. starring Harrison Ford, from a script by Alfred Uhry.{{cite magazine|author=Variety Staff|url=https://variety.com/1995/more/news/milos-forman-back-in-biz-with-flynt-pic-99127124/|title=MILOS FORMAN BACK IN BIZ WITH FLYNT PIC|magazine=Variety|date=May 29, 1995|access-date=September 20, 2023}} It was postponed however, following an injury of Forman's.{{cite magazine|author=Variety Staff|url=https://variety.com/1995/more/news/a-milos-mishap-99124801/|title=A Milos Mishap|magazine=Variety|date=February 5, 1995|access-date=October 1, 2023}}{{cite magazine|author=Archerd, Army|url=https://variety.com/1995/voices/columns/linden-returns-to-tuners-with-dodsworth-1117862796/|title=Linden returns to tuners with 'Dodsworth'|magazine=Variety|date=October 16, 1995|access-date=September 20, 2023}}

Around 2000, Forman was in talks to direct a film about the early life of Howard Hughes with screenplay by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, and Edward Norton in the role of the eccentric young billionaire.{{cite news|last=McDougal|first=Dennis|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/09/movies/a-movie-story-as-elusive-as-its-main-character.html|title=A Movie Story as Elusive as Its Main Character|newspaper=The New York Times|date=January 9, 2005|access-date=September 20, 2023}}

Around 2001, Forman was set to direct and co-write the comic crime caper Bad News, adapted from the novel by Donald E. Westlake. Forman was co-writing the script with Doug Wright.{{cite magazine|author=Harris, Dana|url=https://variety.com/2001/film/news/warners-makes-news-1117852856/|title=Warner makes 'News'|magazine=Variety|date=September 18, 2001|access-date=October 1, 2023}}{{cite magazine|author1=Brodesser, Claude|author2=McNary, Dave|url=https://variety.com/2002/tv/news/regency-fox-nearing-news-1117865105/|title=Regency, Fox nearing 'News'|magazine=Variety|date=April 8, 2002|access-date=October 1, 2023}} The project never came to fruition.

In the early 2000s, Forman developed a film project to be titled Embers, adapted by Jean-Claude Carrière from Hungarian novelist Sándor Márai’s novel. The film was about two men in the former Austria-Hungary Empire from different social backgrounds who become friends in military 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 producer had a disagreement, and Connery withdrew from the project. Forman was so convinced that Sean Connery fit the role that he didn't want to shoot the film without him and cancelled the project a few days before the shooting was due to start.

In the late 2000s, the screenplay for Ghost of Munich was written by Forman, Jean-Claude Carriere and Václav Havel (the former Czech president and writer, who had studied at school with Forman), inspired by the novel by the French novelist Georges-Marc Benamou. The story takes a closer look at the events that surrounded the Munich Agreement. The role of the French Prime Minister Édouard Daladier was supposed to have been played by the French actor Mathieu Amalric, with his older self played by Gérard Depardieu. However, the production company Pathé was not able to fund the project.

In 2011, Forman was reportedly in negotiations to direct a screen adaptation of Mitchell Zuckoff's acclaimed biography, Ponzi's Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend, with Christopher Weekes penning the script.{{cite magazine|author=Cox, Gordon|url=https://variety.com/2011/film/news/ponzi-s-scheme-afoot-1118035940/|title='Ponzi's scheme afoot|magazine=Variety|date=April 27, 2011|access-date=April 24, 2025}}

File:Hana Brejchová (1966).jpg her first film role in Loves of a Blonde, which earned her third place in the Best Actress category at the Venice Film Festival.{{cite web|title=Hana Brejchová|url=http://www.csfd.cz/tvurce/1108-hana-brejchova/|website=Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze|publisher=POMO Media Group|access-date=1 November 2014}}]]

Forman's first wife was Czech movie star Jana Brejchová. They met while making Štěňata (1957). They divorced in 1962. Forman had twin sons with his second wife Czech actress and singer {{ill|Věra Křesadlová|cs}}. They separated in 1969. Their sons {{ill|Petr Forman|lt=Petr|cs|Petr Forman}} and {{Interlanguage link|Matěj Forman|lt=Matěj|cs}} (b. 1964) are both involved in the theatre. Forman married {{ill|Martina Zbořilová|cs|Martina Formanová}} on 28 November 1999, and they also had twin sons Jim and Andy (born 1999).{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/14/obituaries/milos-forman-dead.html|title=Milos Forman, Oscar-Winning Director of 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest', Dies at 86|newspaper=The New York Times|date=14 April 2018 |access-date=14 April 2018 |last1=Cieply |first1=Michael }}

Forman was professor emeritus of film at Columbia University.[https://directory.columbia.edu/people/uni;jsessionid=5E073DC2A9EB9EA2EBF2F98E9AC40E90?code=mf20 Milos Forman page at Columbia University]. Directory.columbia.edu; retrieved 23 June 2011. In 1996, asteroid 11333 Forman was named after him.{{cite web|url=https://grapevine.is/mag/feature/2009/10/06/issue-16-feature-interview-with-milos-forman/|title=Milos Forman's Masterclass|date=6 October 2009|publisher=Grapevine|access-date=14 April 2018}} He wrote poems and published the autobiography Turnaround in 1994. After a short illness, he died at Danbury Hospital near his home in Warren, Connecticut on 13 April 2018 at age 86.{{cite news|title=Forman, Oscar-winning director of 'Cuckoo's Nest' and 'Amadeus', dies at 86|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-forman/forman-oscar-winning-director-of-cuckoos-nest-and-amadeus-dies-at-86-idUSKBN1HL0CQ|work=Reuters|date=14 April 2018|access-date=14 April 2018}}{{cite news|title=Milos Forman, Oscar-winning director, dies at 86 |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/obituaries/2018/04/14/milos-forman-oscar-winning-director-dies/SMK5Lxs0lm9Ru83SdObCyH/story.html |newspaper=The Boston Globe |date=14 April 2018 |access-date=14 April 2018}}{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-milos-forman-obit-20180414-story.html|title=Miloš Forman, Oscar-winning Czech director of 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' dies at 86|first=Gina|last=Piccalo|website=Los Angeles Times|date=14 April 2018}}{{cite news|url=https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-people-forman-idUKKBN1HL0CT|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181207221948/https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-people-forman-idUKKBN1HL0CT|url-status=dead|archive-date=7 December 2018|title=Forman, Oscar-winning director of "Cuckoo's Nest" and "Amadeus",...|newspaper=Reuters|date=14 April 2018|via=uk.reuters.com}} He is interred at New Warren Cemetery in Warren, Connecticut.

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In 1977, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. In 1985, he headed the Cannes Film Festival and in 2000 did the same for the Venice Film Festival.{{cite magazine|url=https://variety.com/2018/film/news/milos-forman-dead-dies-director-one-flew-over-the-cuckoos-nest-1202753397/|title=Milos Forman, Oscar-Winning Director of 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' Dies at 86|magazine=Variety|access-date=14 April 2018}} He presided over a César Award ceremony in 1988.{{cite web|url=http://www.academie-cinema.org/ceremonie/maitres-ceremonie.html|title=Présidences de Cérémonie|publisher=Academie des Arts et Techniques du Cinema|access-date=14 April 2018}} In April 2007, he took part in the jazz opera Dobře placená procházka, itself a remake of the TV film he made in 1966. It premiered at the Prague National Theatre, directed by Forman's son, Petr Forman. Named 30th greatest Czech by Největší Čech{{cite web|url=http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/specialy/nejvetsicech/oprojektu_top100|title=Největší Čech|publisher=Ceskatelvize.cz|access-date=14 April 2018}} Forman's films One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus were selected for the National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" in 1993 and 2019 respectively{{Cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/|title=Complete National Film Registry Listing |website=Library of Congress|access-date=5 January 2020}}

• 1965: Awarded the state prize of Klement Gottwald for Loves of a Blonde{{cite web|url=https://milosforman.com/en/movies/loves-of-a-blonde|title=Loves of a Blonde|publisher=MilosForman.com|access-date=14 April 2018}}
• 1997: The Crystal Globe award for outstanding artistic contribution to world cinema at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.{{cite web|url=http://www.kviff.com/en/history/1997|title=KVIFF History|publisher=KVIFF.com|access-date=14 April 2018}}
• 1998: Awarded a lifetime Achievement award by the Czech Lion Awards for his contributions to Czech cinema{{cite web|url=https://prague.tv/en/s72/c8-Cinema/n9308-Milos-Forman-named-honorary-citizen|title=Milos Forman named honorary citizen|publisher=Prague.tv|access-date=14 April 2018}}
• 1995: Awarded Czech Medal of Merit
• 2006: Awarded the Hanno R. Ellenbogen Citizenship Award
• 2009: Forman received an honorary degree from Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, US.{{cite web|url=http://www.emerson.edu/news-events/emerson-college-today/archives/2009?postingID=11144|title=News Articles in 2009|work=Emerson College|date=12 July 2023 }}
• 2015: Awarded honorary Doctor of humane letters degree by Columbia University{{cite web|url=http://www.columbia.edu/node/19390.html|title=University Commencement, Morningside Campus|work=columbia.edu|access-date=3 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160312160658/http://www.columbia.edu/node/19390.html|archive-date=12 March 2016|url-status=dead}}

Throughout Forman's career he won two Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival, Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, a BAFTA Award, a César Award, and the Czech Lion.

Directed Academy Award performances

Under Forman's direction, these actors have received Academy Award nominations (and wins) for their performances in their respective roles.

• List of Big Five Academy Award winners and nominees
• List of Czech Academy Award winners and nominees

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Category:2018 deaths

Category:20th-century American male actors

Category:21st-century American male actors

Category:Academy of Performing Arts in Prague alumni

Category:Akira Kurosawa Award winners

Category:American male screenwriters

Category:American male film actors

Category:American people of Czech descent

Category:American people of Czech-Jewish descent

Category:American people of Jewish descent

Category:Best Director BAFTA Award winners

Category:Best Directing Academy Award winners

Category:Best Director Golden Globe winners

Category:Columbia University faculty

Category:Czechoslovak emigrants to the United States

Category:Czech film directors

Category:Czech people of Jewish descent

Category:Czechoslovak film directors

Category:Czechoslovak Holocaust survivors

Category:David di Donatello winners

Category:Directors of Best Picture Academy Award winners

Category:Directors of Golden Bear winners

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Category:English-language film directors

Category:European Film Awards winners (people)

Category:Film directors from Connecticut

Category:Film producers from Connecticut

Category:Knights of the Legion of Honour

Category:Recipients of Medal of Merit (Czech Republic)

Category:People from Čáslav

Category:Silver Bear for Best Director recipients

Category:Jewish film people