Born Jan Tomas Forman in Caslav, Czechoslovakia, on February 18, 1932, a young Milos Forman lost his parents in the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. He studied filmmaking in Prague and made several films in his native country during the 1960s, including his first, Magic Lantern II (1960), before leaving for America. His first American film, Taking Off (1971), received little attention. But the follow-up, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), was an unqualified success and earned Forman a Best Director Oscar. After adaptations of the musical "Hair" (1970) and the book Ragtime (1981), Forman directed the Mozart biography Amadeus (1984), which garnered a second Oscar for directing. He continued to strike gold in the biography genre with the Oscar-nominated The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996) and Man on the Moon (1999), which chronicled the bizarre life of comedian Andy Kaufman.
Movie | Forman vs. Forman | Self - Filmmaker (archive footage) | 2019-07-16 |
Movie | CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel | Self | 2018-09-16 |
Movie | Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond | Self | 2017-09-05 |
Movie | To Make a Comedy Is No Fun | Self | 2016-10-05 |
Movie | Olga | Self | 2014-05-15 |
Movie | Chaplin - The Legend of the Century | Himself | 2014-05-13 |
Movie | Milos Forman Taking Off in America | Himself | 2012-06-04 |
Movie | Carrière, 250 Meters | Self | 2011-01-01 |
Movie | Mark Donskoy, King and Jester | 2011-04-01 | |
Movie | Beloved | Jaromil | 2011-08-17 |
Movie | Once Upon a Time… One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | 2011-06-27 | |
Movie | Miloš Forman | Self | 2010-09-06 |
Movie | On the Trail of the New Wave | Self | 2009-03-14 |
Movie | It Is Hell with the Princess | čert Elrebub | 2009-01-29 |
Movie | Life and Film: The Labyrinthine Biographies of Vojtech Jasny | Himself | 2009-09-01 |
Movie | Miloš Forman - What Doesn't Kill You… | Self | 2009-10-08 |
Movie | Chelsea on the Rocks | Himself | 2008-05-23 |
Movie | Fog City Mavericks | Self | 2007-10-24 |
Movie | Filmmakers vs. Tycoons | Self | 2005-07-17 |
Movie | François Truffaut, une autobiographie | Self | 2004-10-01 |
Movie | Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin | Self | 2003-05-01 |
Movie | A Decade Under the Influence | Self | 2003-04-25 |
Movie | The Making of 'Amadeus' | Self / Director | 2002-09-24 |
Movie | In the Shadow of Hollywood | Self | 2000-01-01 |
Movie | Keeping the Faith | Father Havel | 2000-04-14 |
Movie | The Beatles Revolution | Self | 2000-11-17 |
Movie | Charlie Chaplin: A Tramp's Life | Self | 1998-05-10 |
Movie | Completely Cuckoo | Himself | 1997-12-16 |
Movie | New Year's Day | Lazlo | 1990-02-09 |
Movie | Heartburn | Dimitri | 1986-07-25 |
Movie | The Statue of Liberty | Self - Film Director | 1985-10-26 |
Movie | Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter | Reader - The Biddle Brothers (voice) | 1982-10-09 |
Movie | TVTV Looks at the Oscars | Self | 1976-03-30 |
Movie | An Occasion to Speak | Self | 1966-09-28 |
Movie | Ceiling | 1962-03-15 | |
Movie | Tam za lesem | 1962-11-23 | |
Movie | Vintage Car | 1957-03-29 | |
Movie | Silvery Wind | 1956-11-30 | |
Series | The Oscars | Unknown | 1953-03-19 |
Movie | Slovo dělá ženu | 1953-05-29 |