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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. Film scholars and Czechoslovak authorities saw his 1967 film The Firemen's Ball as a biting satire on Eastern European Communism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Miloš Forman has received more than 2,675,976 page views. His biography is available in 69 different languages on Wikipedia. Miloš Forman is the 21st most popular film director (down from 20th in 2019), the 15th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 14th 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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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Miloš Forman ranks 21 out of 1,581Before him are Luis Buñuel, Andrei Tarkovsky, Jean-Luc Godard, Sergio Leone, Francis Ford Coppola, and François Truffaut. After him are Georges Méliès, Leni Riefenstahl, Pedro Almodóvar, Bernardo Bertolucci, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Konstantin Stanislavski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Miloš Forman ranks 9Before him are Luc Montagnier, Debbie Reynolds, Elizabeth Taylor, Omar Sharif, Andrei Tarkovsky, and François Truffaut. After him are Johnny Cash, John Williams, Cesare Maldini, Abebe Bikila, Peter O'Toole, and Roh Tae-woo. Among people deceased in 2018, Miloš Forman ranks 9Before him are George H. W. Bush, Kofi Annan, Charles Aznavour, Ingvar Kamprad, Stan Lee, and Montserrat Caballé. After him are Bernardo Bertolucci, Charles K. Kao, Amos Oz, Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark, Philip Roth, and John McCain.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Miloš Forman ranks 15 out of 973Before him are Edmund Husserl (1859), Milan Kundera (1929), Rainer Maria Rilke (1875), Václav Havel (1936), Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1316), and Ferdinand Porsche (1875). After him are Alphonse Mucha (1860), Karel Čapek (1890), John of Nepomuk (1350), Joseph Schumpeter (1883), Ernst Mach (1838), and Albrecht von Wallenstein (1583).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In Czechia

Among film directors born in Czechia, Miloš Forman ranks 1After him are Jiří Menzel (1938), Jan Švankmajer (1934), G. W. Pabst (1885), Věra Chytilová (1929), Karel Zeman (1910), Jiří Trnka (1912), Karel Reisz (1926), Václav Vorlíček (1930), František Čáp (1913), Otakar Vávra (1911), and Ivan Passer (1933).

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