Milos Forman, Oscar-winning director, dies at 86
PRAGUE (Reuters) — Milos Forman, the Czech-born movie director who found fame in Hollywood with the Oscar-winning classics “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and “Amadeus,” has died at the age of 86, Czech news agency CTK reported yesterday. Forman died on Friday in the United States after a short illness, his wife Martina told CTK.
“His departure was calm and he was surrounded the whole time by his family and his closest friends,” she said.
Forman was born in the Czech town of Caslav on Feb. 18, 1932, but moved to the US after the Communist crackdown on the “Prague Spring” uprising in 1968. He became a US citizen in the 1970s. His other notable works included the rock musical “Hair,” “Ragtime” and “The People vs Larry Flint,” which was nominated for an Academy Award in 1996.