1932 - 2018
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, Miloš Forman ranks 21 out of 1,581. Before 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.
1900 - 1983
HPI: 74.56
Rank: 15
1932 - 1986
HPI: 74.26
Rank: 16
1930 - 2022
HPI: 74.15
Rank: 17
1929 - 1989
HPI: 73.85
Rank: 18
1939 - Present
HPI: 73.70
Rank: 19
1932 - 1984
HPI: 73.66
Rank: 20
1932 - 2018
HPI: 73.60
Rank: 21
1861 - 1938
HPI: 73.44
Rank: 22
1902 - 2003
HPI: 73.43
Rank: 23
1949 - Present
HPI: 73.29
Rank: 24
1941 - 2018
HPI: 73.21
Rank: 25
1912 - 2007
HPI: 72.96
Rank: 26
1863 - 1938
HPI: 72.50
Rank: 27
Among people born in 1932, Miloš Forman ranks 9. Before 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 9. Before 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.
1932 - 2022
HPI: 75.96
Rank: 3
1932 - 2016
HPI: 75.24
Rank: 4
1932 - 2011
HPI: 74.78
Rank: 5
1932 - 2015
HPI: 74.60
Rank: 6
1932 - 1986
HPI: 74.26
Rank: 7
1932 - 1984
HPI: 73.66
Rank: 8
1932 - 2018
HPI: 73.60
Rank: 9
1932 - 2003
HPI: 73.04
Rank: 10
1932 - Present
HPI: 72.49
Rank: 11
1932 - 2016
HPI: 70.79
Rank: 12
1932 - 1973
HPI: 69.83
Rank: 13
1932 - 2013
HPI: 69.82
Rank: 14
1932 - 2021
HPI: 69.12
Rank: 15
1924 - 2018
HPI: 78.19
Rank: 3
1938 - 2018
HPI: 77.02
Rank: 4
1924 - 2018
HPI: 76.87
Rank: 5
1926 - 2018
HPI: 76.23
Rank: 6
1922 - 2018
HPI: 75.72
Rank: 7
1933 - 2018
HPI: 75.27
Rank: 8
1932 - 2018
HPI: 73.60
Rank: 9
1941 - 2018
HPI: 73.21
Rank: 10
1933 - 2018
HPI: 71.90
Rank: 11
1939 - 2018
HPI: 70.17
Rank: 12
1934 - 2018
HPI: 69.11
Rank: 13
1933 - 2018
HPI: 69.03
Rank: 14
1936 - 2018
HPI: 68.89
Rank: 15
Among people born in Czechia, Miloš Forman ranks 15 out of 973. Before 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).
1859 - 1938
HPI: 77.74
Rank: 9
1929 - 2023
HPI: 77.72
Rank: 10
1875 - 1926
HPI: 76.78
Rank: 11
1936 - 2011
HPI: 75.84
Rank: 12
1316 - 1378
HPI: 75.19
Rank: 13
1875 - 1951
HPI: 74.94
Rank: 14
1932 - 2018
HPI: 73.60
Rank: 15
1860 - 1939
HPI: 73.43
Rank: 16
1890 - 1938
HPI: 73.39
Rank: 17
1350 - 1393
HPI: 73.17
Rank: 18
1883 - 1950
HPI: 72.88
Rank: 19
1838 - 1916
HPI: 72.68
Rank: 20
1583 - 1634
HPI: 72.65
Rank: 21
Among film directors born in Czechia, Miloš Forman ranks 1. After 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).
1932 - 2018
HPI: 73.60
Rank: 1
1938 - 2020
HPI: 63.42
Rank: 2
1934 - Present
HPI: 62.07
Rank: 3
1885 - 1967
HPI: 61.16
Rank: 4
1929 - 2014
HPI: 58.69
Rank: 5
1910 - 1989
HPI: 58.57
Rank: 6
1912 - 1969
HPI: 56.92
Rank: 7
1926 - 2002
HPI: 55.31
Rank: 8
1930 - 2019
HPI: 53.68
Rank: 9
1913 - 1972
HPI: 52.18
Rank: 10
1911 - 2011
HPI: 51.10
Rank: 11
1933 - 2020
HPI: 50.66
Rank: 12