Miloš Forman

Also known as Jan Tomáš Kohn-Forman, Jan Tomáš Forman, Milos Forman

Czech American director, screenwriter, and professor (1932–2018)

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Miloš Forman was a Czech American film director and screenwriter who created acclaimed movies including "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "Amadeus," both of which won multiple Academy Awards. He matters because his films became classics of cinema and influenced generations of filmmakers and audiences worldwide.

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Person · Open Library

Works: 10

Top works

3 1/2
Les amours d'un blonde
Before Goya's Ghosts
רוחות הרפאים של גויה
Lásky jedné plavovlásky

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United States
Active from: 1956-01-24

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Discography

Childhood Dreams
Only A Memory
Train of Thought1985
Hand Made1992
What Else?1992
Now and Then1993
Now And Then (A Tribute To Bill Evans)1993
Metro1994
Harvest Song1997
New Standards - Ballads for Solo Piano1999

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 183
Total plays: 549

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Global cancer statistics
· 2011 · cited 23,192x
Cancer incidence and mortality worldwide: Sources, methods and major patterns in GLOBOCAN 2012
· 2014 · cited 21,632x
Estimates of worldwide burden of cancer in 2008: GLOBOCAN 2008
· 2010 · cited 12,201x
Cancer incidence and mortality patterns in Europe: Estimates for 40 countries in 2012
· 2013 · cited 3,968x
Improved Assessment of Significant Activation in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI): Use of a Cluster‐Size Threshold
· 1995 · cited 2,728x

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Quotes

“First of all, whoever didn't want to be a member of this association or the other association, was branded, you know, like a dangerous individualist, you know, infected by the Western decadence, you know. So everybody joined. And everything is controlled and everybody is a member of some committee, because then their watchdogs placed in the committees can control everything, what this person says or how this person think, you know. It was... [Sighs] it was just ridiculous.”
“I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press — that's the cornerstone. I'm convinced if the press... it was not possible, of course, but if the free press existed through this century, there wouldn't be Hitler there wouldn't Stalin, there wouldn't be all this incredible price people have to pay for their freedom, you know, because that's what they're always first after… newspapers, radio, television, everything like that.”

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Encyclopedic overview

Jan Tomáš "Miloš" Forman (/ˈmiːloʊʃ/; Czech: [ˈmɪloʃ ˈforman]; 18 February 1932 – 13 April 2018) was a Czech and American film director, screenwriter, actor, and professor. He rose to fame in his native Czechoslovakia before emigrating to the United States in 1968. Over a career spanning six decades, Forman 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. The film was initially shown in theatres in his home country in the more reformist atmosphere of the Prague Spring. However, it was later banned by the Communist government after the invasion by the Warsaw Pact countries in 1968. Forman was subsequently forced to leave Czechoslovakia for the United States, where he continued making films.

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