FILM DIRECTOR

Miloš Forman

1932 - 2018

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Jan Tomáš "Miloš" Forman (; Czech: [ˈmɪloʃ ˈforman]; 18 February 1932 – 13 April 2018) was a Czech-American film director, screenwriter, actor, and professor who rose to fame in his native Czechoslovakia before emigrating to the United States in 1968. Throughout Forman's career he won two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, three Golden Globe Awards, a Golden Bear, a César Award, and the Czech Lion. Forman was an important figure in the Czechoslovak New Wave. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Miloš Forman has received more than 2,880,282 page views. His biography is available in 74 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 69 in 2019). Miloš Forman is the 29th most popular film director (down from 21st in 2019), the 28th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 15th in 2019) and the most popular Czech Film Director.

Miloš Forman is most famous for his films One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus.

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  • 74

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  • 9.22

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  • 3.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Miloš Forman ranks 29 out of 2,041. Before him are Francis Ford Coppola, Bernardo Bertolucci, Agnès Varda, Georges Méliès, Michelangelo Antonioni, and George Lucas. After him are Konstantin Stanislavski, Fritz Lang, Roger Vadim, Quentin Tarantino, Andrzej Wajda, and Tinto Brass.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Miloš Forman ranks 8. Before him are Jacques Chirac, Debbie Reynolds, Andrei Tarkovsky, Elizabeth Taylor, Omar Sharif, and François Truffaut. After him are Johnny Cash, John Williams, Abebe Bikila, Peter O'Toole, Cesare Maldini, and Luc Montagnier. Among people deceased in 2018, Miloš Forman ranks 11. Before him are Charles Aznavour, Ingvar Kamprad, Montserrat Caballé, Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark, Stan Lee, and Bernardo Bertolucci. After him are Amos Oz, Isao Takahata, John McCain, Philip Roth, Stephen Hillenburg, and France Gall.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Miloš Forman ranks 28 out of 1,200. Before him are Kurt Gödel (1906), Joseph Schumpeter (1883), Bertha von Suttner (1843), Ernst Mach (1838), Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850), and Joseph Radetzky von Radetz (1766). After him are Jaroslav Hašek (1883), Edvard Beneš (1884), Václav Klaus (1941), Arthur Seyss-Inquart (1892), Hans Kelsen (1881), and Leoš Janáček (1854).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Czechia

Among film directors born in Czechia, Miloš Forman ranks 1. After him are Jiří Menzel (1938), Jan Švankmajer (1934), Věra Chytilová (1929), Karel Zeman (1910), G. W. Pabst (1885), Jiří Trnka (1912), Karel Reisz (1926), Václav Vorlíček (1930), František Čáp (1913), Elmar Klos (1910), and Harun Farocki (1944).

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Filmography

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Director
A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward.
Nov 19o 19758.414 / 10
Amadeus
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Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the hedonistic and remarkably talented young Viennese composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Sep 19o 19848 / 10
Man on the Moon
Director
The story of the life and career of eccentric avant-garde comedian, Andy Kaufman.
Dec 22o 19997.25 / 10