Miloš Forman

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1932 age 0

   Born

2. 1965 age 33

   CreditLoves of a Blondedirector

   CreditLoves of a Blondescreenwriter

3. 1975 age 43

   CreditOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nestdirector

4. 1979 age 47

   CreditHairdirector

5. 1984 age 52

   CreditAmadeusdirector

6. 1986 age 54

   CreditHeartburn

7. 1996 age 64

   CreditThe People vs. Larry Flyntdirector

8. 1999 age 67

   CreditMan on the Moondirector

9. 2006 age 74

   CreditGoya's Ghostsdirector

   CreditGoya's Ghostsscreenwriter

10. 2018 age 86

    Died

• VSVincent Schiavelli4 titles
• SZSaul Zaentz3 titles
• MOMiroslav Ondříček3 titles
• MCMiles Chapin3 titles
• DDDanny DeVito2 titles
• CLChristopher Lloyd2 titles
• JNJack Nicholson2 titles
• SLSydney Lassick2 titles
• MSMews Small2 titles
• HBHana Brejchová2 titles

• All the Sixties were complicated, you know. On the one hand it was funny too, you know; on the other hand it was cruel, you know. The communists are so cruel, because they impose one taste on everybody, on everything, and who doesn't comply with their teachings and with their ideology, is very soon labeled pervert, you know, or whatever they want you call it, or counterrevolutionary or whatever. And then the censorship itself, that's not the worst evil. The worst evil is — and that's the product of censorship — is the self-censorship, because that twists spines, that destroys my character because I have to think something else and say something else, I have to always control myself. I am stopping to being honest, I am becoming hypocrite — and that's what they wanted, they wanted everybody to feel guilty, they were, you know... And also they were absolutely brilliant in one way, you know: they knew how effective is not to punish somebody who is guilty; what Communist Party members could

  Miloš Forman, CC BY-SA 4.0

• 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.

  Miloš Forman, CC BY-SA 4.0

• You know, you have to really decide where you want to live: if you want to live in the jungle or in the zoo. Because if you want the beauty, if you want freedom, the jungle is... that's your world. But you're in danger there, you have to live with snakes, sharks, tigers, skunks, you know, mosquitoes, es. You want to be safe, you have to live in the zoo. You are protected. You know, if you are a lamb, the tiger will not attack you. You know, you'll get a little bit something to eat every day; that's fine. You have to work hard, but you live behind the bars, and what's wonderful — you live there behind the bars and you dream about the beauty of the jungle. Now what happened was that the bars opened, and everybody runs after the dream. And suddenly, well, yeah, it's beautiful — yes, I am free to go wherever I want, do whatever I want, but where do I want to go? Oh, my God, and here is a tiger and here's a snake. Oh, oh, and people have a tendency to, you know, back. And you will be surpri

  Miloš Forman, CC BY-SA 4.0

• 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.

  Miloš Forman, CC BY-SA 4.0