Czech Film Director Milos Forman, Oscar Winner for “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and “Amadeus,” Dies at 86

Two-time Oscar winner Milos Forman died yesterday, April 13, at age 86. The Czech filmmaker was best known for directing the Best Picture Oscar winners One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) and Amadeus (1984), for which he won Best Director. Other notable films include The Loves of a Blonde (1965) and The Firemen’s Ball (1967), both Oscar nominees for Best Foreign Language Film, the musical Hair, Ragtime, and the bio-pics The People vs. Larry Flynt and Man on the Moon. His most recent film as a solo director, twelve years ago, was Goya’s Ghosts (2006), a film about painter Francisco Goya.

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