Milos Forman dies at 86

Milos Forman, the Czech-born film director known for Oscar-winning classics One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Amadeus has died at the age of 86, Czech news agency CTK has reported. Reuters reports that Forman's wife Martina told CTK that he died on Friday 13 in the United States after a short illness.
 Forman had only made one American film when he was enlisted to direct the adaptation of Ken Kesey's novel Cuckoo's Nest - the ironic 1971 comedy Taking Off. Yet 1975's One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest proved a critical and commercial success, with the emerging actor Jack Nicholson as its star. It went on to become the first film since 1934's It Happened One Night to scoop up the top five Oscar prizes, for Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress and Screeplany (adapted).
Then on Amadeus, his most financially successful film after Cuckoo's Nest, Forman returned to Czechoslovaki in 1983 and brought two relatively little-known theatre actors to play Mozart (Thomas Hulce) and his bitter rival Antonino Salieri (F. Murray Abraham), together for an adaptation of Peter Shaffer's award-winning play. Forman took his second Best Director Oscar for the film, which also won awards for Best Picture, Actor(Abraham), and Screenplay - eight awards in total.
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